Cheating can be defined as doing any wrongful act.  It is an all too familiar issue that has been seen in the sporting industry.  Athletes and coaches have been accused of cheating from the issues of illegal drug use to the altering of test scores.  This misconduct is often seen as the source of problems in other sporting enthusiasts.  These athletes and coaches should be the ones setting examples for others to follow because most of the time, they are the role models that are being looked up to.  Many contracts and agreements have been written to express and enforce the views on cheating in sports.

Universal Fairness and Kant  (http://clab.cecil.cc.md.us/faculty/PHL101/ve.htm ) ...This article addresses the issue that everyone should be treated equally and that we all must play by the same rules whatever the activity.  It also describes the main points of Immanuel Kant’s reason that “reason alone can settle moral issues.”

Officials Back Drug Tests for All Athletes  (http://www.bermudasun.org/issues/oct17_97/sportsoct17_97.html)
...The Bermuda Council for Drug-Free Sports forms a policy that an unannounced 10 percent of Bermuda’s athletes will be drug tested each year.  Their goal with this was to “help the young children make wise decisions about their participation in sport.”

Anabolic Steroids: Cheating through Chemistry  (http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hsr/hsr/winter97/steroid.html)...This article describes what anabolic steroids are, how they are used, the side effects, the history, and a perspective for the future with the drugs.

The Monsters  (http://www.deakin.edu.au/~bramsey/wrestle6.html)  ...This is an article, especially related to Andre the Giant, on how wrestling is a parody of sport.  The wrestlers are often “portrayed as at the best incompetent and at worst totally corrupt.”

Declaration of Sport, Tolerance and Fair Play  (http://culture.coe.fr/Infocentre/txt/eng/espdecl.html ) ...The participants of the Round Table Sports, Tolerance, and Fair Play in Amsterdam formed a declaration with the ideas that sports offer a vast potential to society, that sport has the ability to project fair play, team spirit and solidarity, that sport has the ability to have role models, that valuable work is involved in sports, and the fact that sports all to often has had outbreaks of intolerance.

How Seping was asked to cheat  (http://wn.apc.org/wmail/issues/960927/NEWS1.html)  ...Hezekial Seping was asked to sign a contract that determined how often, how fast, and against whom he would race in South Africa.

UNLV Assistant Accused of Cheating  (http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1997/Jul-02-Wed-1997/sports/5648036.html) ...Greg Vetrone, the assistant basketball coach of UNLV who had recruited some of the best freshman, is accused by Sports Illustrated’s, Don Yeager and Alexander Wolff, of arranging to have SAT test scores altered.

Additions submitted by Laura Luth, Fall, 1998:

CATCHING DRUG CHEATS   (http://channel.cnnsi.com/cycling/1998/tourdefrance/news/1998/07/21/blood_tests/)
This article discusses the Association of Italian Professional Cyclists (ACCPI).  They want to replace urine tests with blood tests, because they would be more routine and concrete.

GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP TAKES A CONFERENCE-WIDE COMMITMENT
(http://www.internationalsport.com/bigten.cfm)
The Big Ten conference commissioner James E. Delany writes an article about the Big Ten developing a sportsmanship program to create mutual respect of all participants.

THE HISTORY OF DRUG USE IN SPORT    (http://www.adf.org.au/archive/asda/history.html)
This link talks about the beginnings of drugs and their use throughout history.

THE CASE FOR DRUG-FREE SPORT--IT'S CHEATING   (http://www.adf.org.au/archive/asda/case.html)
A study by Dr. Stephen Mugford shows that the general perception by athletes is that performance enhancing drugs are wrong.

Additions submitted by Adam LaRue, Fall, 1998:

Cheating on the Rise   (http://www.bergen.com/ed/cheat9708281.htm)

Sports and Ethics: A site on ethics in athletics  (http://www.worldandi.com/archive/kapjuly.htm)

Conduct: many topics related to the conduct of an athlete in sport          (http://www.ccds.cincinnati.oh.us/Exp/Prog/MS/Handbook/conduct.htm)
 

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