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In this episode of The Sports Ethics Show , Joey Gawrysiack (Shenandoah University) and I discuss whether video games can be sport. Can video games be considered Sport? A controversial question because it raises questions about the nature of sport and the nature of video games as well as the value of each. Dr. Joey Gawrysiak of Shenandoah University joins the show to discuss the ways in which we can understand video games as sport.   You can subscribe to The Sports Ethics Show in iTunes or get the RSS Feed . More information at The Sports Ethicist Blog

41st Conference on Value Inquiry Sport and Values 16 - 18 April 2015 Neumann University Aston, Pennsylvania **Call for Papers** The Neumann University Institute for Sport, Spirituality and Character Development ( http://isscd.org ), in conjunction with the Neumann University Philosophy Department will host the 41st Conference on Value Inquiry: Sport and Values at Neumann University in Aston, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, 16-18 April 2015.   Broad participation is sought.   We welcome papers that address various aspects of sport and values.   Most accepted papers will be primarily directed to a scholarly audience, yet the conference will have presentations that fall into the following three categories:    (a) Papers primarily directed to a scholarly audience.    (b) Interactive presentations primarily directed to an undergraduate student audience.    (c) Graduate and undergraduate student presentations (e.g., paper, poster, or TED-style ta...

Fellow Philosophy of Sport contributor Joan Forry and I talk about Animal Sports in the new episode of The Sports Ethics Podcast . Are competitions involving non-human animals, like horse racing, dog agility, and so on, sports? If so, under what conditions are animal sports morally justifiable? We also discuss activities like bull-fighting, dog fighting, and cockfighting. You can subscribe to The Sports Ethics Podcast in iTunes or get the RSS Feed . More information at The Sports Ethicist Blog

A new episode of The Sports Ethics Podcast may interest many readers and contributors to this blog. Baseball playoffs are in full swing with both American and National League Championship Series opening this weekend. For baseball fans, this is one of the most exciting parts of the baseball season. But are we getting something wrong? Is there something wrong with having playoffs decide champions? Are there better ways of determining champions and organizing sport competitions? Dr. Aaron Harper of West Liberty University discusses these questions and related issues with Shawn E. Klein. You can subscribe to The Sports Ethics Podcast in iTunes or get the RSS Feed . More information at The Sports Ethicist Blog

I recently reviewed The Fantasy Sport Industry: Games within Games (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society) by Andrew C. Billings and Brody J. Ruihley for the Nordic Sport Science Forum . The central idea of Andrew Billings and Brody Ruihley’s book, The Fantasy Sport Industry ¸ is that fantasy is a game-changer. It is a game-changer in the way sport is covered by and represented in the media. It is a game-changer for the fans and how they consume sport. Indeed, it is potentially a game-changer for the very sports on which these games are based. Fantasy Sports have been around for several decades. They started small, the domain of, so the stereotype goes, geeky guys in their basements. But these games have expanded exponentially in the last twenty years. Something like thirty five million North Americans play fantasy sport in some manner: that’s more than the numbers of people who play golf, watch the American Idol finale, or own iPhones (Berry, 2; Billings and Ruihley, 5)...

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Over at The Sports Ethicist, I've posted a guest blog post by Chad Carlson. Chad discusses the nature of fantasy football, its relation to real football, and what value fantasy potentially has.  Here is an excerpt: I have been reminded of all of this most recently throughout the first two weeks of the Fantasy Football, er, NFL, season. I am watching the games very closely and I remember which teams win, but my mood changes based not on which teams win but based on whether my fantasy players have done well or not. As such, I am reminded of how Fantasy Football has the ability to alter how we watch and understand the NFL. However, I have also been reminded of how Fantasy Football can be a very fun and playful way of coming to understand and enjoy professional football. This August, my family decided to start a Fantasy Football league. Most of our league’s members were new to Fantasy Football, and a few in-laws were relatively new American football. Read the full post here .