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Notes on Contributors ix Foreword by Dean Smith xv Preface xvi Acknowledgments xviii Introduction - The Moral Significance of Sport 1 Jan Boxill Part I: Sport and Education 1. Sports, Relativism, and Moral Education 16 Robert L. Simon 2. Why Everyone Deserves a Sporting Chance: Education, Justice, and School Sports 29 Janice Moulton 3. Moral Development and Sport: Character and Cognitive Developmentalism Contrasted 40 Carwyn Jones and Michael McNamee 4. Philosopher in the Playground: Notes on the Meaning of Sport 53 Peter Heinegg 5. Foul Play: Sports Metaphors as Public Doublespeak 56 Francine Hardaway Part II: Sport and Sportsmanship 6. Sportsmanship as a Moral Category 63 James W. Keating 7. Three Approaches Toward an Understanding of Sportsmanship 72 Peter J. Arnold 8. Deception, Sportsmanship, and Ethics 81 Kathleen M. Pearson 9. On Sportsmanship and "Running up the Score" 84 Nicholas Dixon 10. Sportmanship and Blowouts: Baseball and Beyond 95 Randolph M. Feezell Part III: Sport and Competition 11. The Ethics of Competition 107 Jan Boxill 12. On Winning and Athletic Superiority 116 Nicholas Dixon 13. In Defense of Winning 130 R. Scott Kretchmar 14. Winding Down, Looking Ahead 136 Dean Smith 15. Personal Best 144 W. M. Brown 16. Fair Play as Respect for the Game 153 Robert Butcher and Angela Schneider Part IV: Sport and Drugs 17. Good Competition and Drug-Enhanced Performance 175 Robert L. Simon 18. Enhancing Performance in Sports: What is Morally Permissible? 182 Laura Morgan 19. Sports and Drugs: Are Current Bans Justified? 189 Michael Lavin Part V: Sport and Violence 20. What is Sports Violence? 199 Michael Smith 21. Values and Violence in Sports Today: The Moral Reasoning Athletes Use in Their Games and in their Lives 217 Brenda Jo Bredemeier, David L. Shields, Jack C. Horn 22. Violence and Sports Robert E. Leach Part VI: Sport and Gender 23. Sex Equality in Sports 225 Jane English 24. Human Equality in Sports 230 Peter S. Wenz 25. Gender Equity and Inequity in Athletics 240 Robert L. Simon. 26. Title IX and Gender Equity 254 Jan Boxill 27. Why Women do Better than Men in College Basketball, or "What is Collegiate Sport for, Anyway?" 262 Nicholas Hunt-Bull 28. Women, Self-Possession, and Sport 267 Catharine MacKinnon 29. Stronger Women 273 Mariah Burton Nelson 30, The Sports Closet 289 Liz Galst Part VII: Sport and Racial Issues 31. Racial Differences in Sports: What's Ethics Got To Do With It? 297 Albert Mosely 32. Race and College Sport: A Long Way to Go 304 Richard E. Lapchick 33. Sport and Stereotype: From Role Model to Muhammad Ali 310 Mike Marqusee Part VIII: Sport and Role Models 34. Do Celebrated Athletes have Special Responsibilities to be Good Role Models? An Imagined Dialog between Charles Barkley and Karl Malone 333 Christopher Wellman 35. Get the Message? 337 Rick Reilly Index 339

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