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This chapter demonstrates how sport, law, and ethics provide examples of the constant struggle between right and wrong. Throughout history, sport has revealed examples of fraud and the consequences for misconduct, including the price one might pay for blowing the whistle on such wrongdoing. Examples of misdeeds are offered primarily from the American perspective, especially in the context of intercollegiate sport, but international examples, particularly through the Olympic Movement, offer the chance to explore how ethics and law create boundaries, establish norms, and provide a means of dispute resolution. Though the degree to which the civil or criminal law engages sport depends upon the circumstances, specific ways to address dealing with ethics in sport include offering participants a legally binding and enforceable contract to play by the rules. If that does not ensure compliance, governmental regulation might be the last and necessary means to maintain civility and order in sport. |
