ABSTRACT
As moral and ethical breaches in sport have become increasingly commonplace, sport has become a visible cultural site for the communication of ethics in the public sphere. A surprising range of improper actions and lapses in judgment have raised questions about the ethical climate in a sporting world that many look to for heroic leadership and values that can be celebrated and emulated. These include (see Mather, 2013; Wenner, 2013a) substance (from performanceenhancing and recreational drugs) and alcohol abuse, sexual ‘improprieties’ (from bad sexual manners to sexual assault to sex addiction to homophobia to questions over verication of sex), routine thuggery (from ‘cheap shots’ to brawls to gun play and even dogghting), ill-directed politics (from overly loyal ‘bad’ nationalism to racist and otherwise prejudicial remarks), and plain old cheating on the eld and o (from deating footballs to stealing and videotaping signals to hacking into a competing team’s information network to using nondisabled athletes in disability sport and overage athletes in youth sport).
