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"The popular actor, podcaster and sports personality uses his signature smack-talk style to assess what is wrong in professional athletics today, sharing irreverent observations on everything from Tiger Woods' need to stay virile for the sake of his game to the author's unrequit…
Michael Rapaport, actor, Top 50 podcaster, award-winning film maker, and sports fanatic, is here to set the world straight on the greatest and downright worst athletes, players, teams, and jerseys?while refusing to mention statistics, analytics, or anything else that isn't pure …
What is the purpose of sport, and how are ethical conceptions of sport shaped by the answers to this question? In "Sport and moral conflict", William Morgan investigates, examining sport as a moral crucible that puts athletes in competitive, emotionally charged situations where …
The Fight for the Moral Soul of Modern Sport: Dueling Amateur and -- Professional Conceptions of Sport in the Early Modern Olympic Games, 1896- -- Formalism and Sport -- Broad Internalism, Moral Realism, and Sport: The Metaphysical Version -- Broad Internalism, Moral Realism, an…
"This book explores the dominant theories of ethics in sports, concluding that a conventionalist model is most defensible. It roots its inquiry in the collision of sporting ideologies in the early twentieth century's Olympic games where English and American ideas of sportsmanshi…
"This book explores the dominant theories of ethics in sports, concluding that a conventionalist model is most defensible. It roots its inquiry in the collision of sporting ideologies in the early twentieth century's Olympic games where English and American ideas of sportsmanshi…
"From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE, Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest. As a result, sport was an ideal vehicle for the construction of a plurality of identities along the lines of ethnic orig…
"From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE, Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest. As a result, sport was an ideal vehicle for the construction of a plurality of identities along the lines of ethnic orig…
"From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE, Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest. As a result, sport was an ideal vehicle for the construction of a plurality of identities along the lines of ethnic orig…
"From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE, Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest. As a result, sport was an ideal vehicle for the construction of a plurality of identities along the lines of ethnic orig…
"An accessible, illustrated introduction to statistics and sports analytics for fanatics and newcomers alike. On February 27, 2013, NBA shooter Steph Curry wowed crowds when he sunk eleven out of thirteen three-pointers-only seven other players, including the likes of Michael Jo…
"An accessible, illustrated introduction to statistics and sports analytics for fanatics and newcomers alike. On February 27, 2013, NBA shooter Steph Curry wowed crowds when he sunk eleven out of thirteen three-pointers-only seven other players, including the likes of Michael Jo…
"An accessible, illustrated introduction to statistics and sports analytics for fanatics and newcomers alike. On February 27, 2013, NBA shooter Steph Curry wowed crowds when he sunk eleven out of thirteen three-pointers-only seven other players, including the likes of Michael Jo…
"The Routledge handbook of sport and sustainable development" is a comprehensive and powerful survey of the ways in which sport engages with its social, environmental, and ethical responsibilities. It considers how sport can use its unique profile and platform to influence the a…
