# Ethics Cases: Sport Part of Ethics Cases (https://ethicscases.com). Real cases. Real decisions. Ethics in sport, for practitioners and classrooms. > Ethics Cases: Sport is a free, citable library of real, well-documented sports ethics cases. Each one has a plain-language summary, timeline, ethical issues, stakeholders, practical takeaways for practitioners, and discussion questions for classrooms. Maintained by Tanner Simkins. Audience: sports practitioners (athletic departments, leagues, teams, foundations) and academics (sports ethics / sport management courses). Each case page has: summary, timeline, ethical issues, stakeholders, a practical takeaway, discussion questions, and sources with links. Topics: Doping, Governance, Labor, Integrity / Cheating, Abuse & Safeguarding, Athlete Rights, Health & Safety, Gambling, Off-field Conduct. ## Cases - [Baylor University and the Football Sexual Assault Scandal](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/baylor-football-sexual-assault-scandal/): An outside review found fundamental failures in how Baylor handled reports of sexual violence, including in football. The coach was fired and the president removed. - [Brett Favre and the Mississippi Welfare Funds Scandal](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/brett-favre-mississippi-welfare-funds/): Mississippi welfare (TANF) money went to projects including a volleyball facility Brett Favre championed. He faces a civil suit but has not been criminally charged. - [Caster Semenya and Testosterone Eligibility Rules](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/caster-semenya-testosterone-eligibility/): A two-time Olympic 800m champion challenged World Athletics testosterone limits for athletes with DSDs at CAS, in Swiss courts, and at Europe's human rights court. - [Colin Kaepernick: Anthem Protest and Collusion Grievance](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/colin-kaepernick-protest-collusion/): An NFL quarterback's anthem protest against police brutality and racial injustice, his unsigned free agency, and the confidential settlement of his collusion grievance. - [Donald Sterling: Racist Remarks and the Forced Clippers Sale](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/donald-sterling-clippers-forced-sale/): After a recording of the Clippers owner's racist remarks surfaced, the NBA banned him for life, fined him $2.5 million, and pushed through a $2 billion sale. - [FIFA Corruption: The 2015 U.S. Indictments](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/fifa-corruption-2015-indictments/): U.S. prosecutors charged FIFA officials and sports-marketing executives with racketeering and bribery. The case led to Sepp Blatter's fall and governance reforms. - [Houston Astros Sign-Stealing Scandal](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/houston-astros-sign-stealing/): How the 2017 Astros used a center-field camera feed to decode and relay opposing signs, and how MLB investigated and disciplined the club. - [Jeremy Bloom v. NCAA: Endorsements, Eligibility, and the Pre-NIL Era](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/jeremy-bloom-ncaa-eligibility/): A world-champion moguls skier lost his Colorado football eligibility after taking ski endorsements, years before NCAA name, image, and likeness (NIL) reform. - [Lance Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Service Team Doping Conspiracy](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/lance-armstrong-doping/): USADA's 2012 case against Lance Armstrong: a lifetime ban, seven Tour de France titles stripped, and a long-running, organized doping cover-up. - [Larry Nassar, USA Gymnastics, and Systemic Safeguarding Failure](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/larry-nassar-usa-gymnastics/): How a team doctor abused athletes for years while reports to USA Gymnastics, Michigan State, the U.S. Olympic Committee, and the FBI failed to stop him. - [Michael Vick and the Bad Newz Kennels Dogfighting Case](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/michael-vick-dogfighting/): An NFL quarterback's federal conviction for running a dogfighting operation, his prison sentence, and his conditional reinstatement to the league. - [New Orleans Saints "Bountygate"](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/new-orleans-saints-bountygate/): NFL findings that the Saints ran a pay-for-injury "bounty" program, the resulting record discipline, and the appeal that vacated the player suspensions. - [Ohio State "Tattoo-Gate" and Jim Tressel](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/ohio-state-tattoo-scandal-jim-tressel/): Ohio State players traded memorabilia for cash and tattoos, and head coach Jim Tressel concealed what he knew. He resigned, and the NCAA imposed a bowl ban. - [Oscar Pistorius: Prosthetics Eligibility and the Killing of Reeva Steenkamp](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/oscar-pistorius-eligibility-and-conviction/): A double-amputee sprinter won the right to race able-bodied athletes at the Olympics, then was convicted of murdering Reeva Steenkamp. - [Penn State and the Sandusky Abuse Scandal: Institutional Failure](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/penn-state-sandusky-institutional-failure/): How Penn State leaders responded to reports about former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, and the criminal, NCAA, and federal consequences that followed. - [Pete Rose: Betting on Baseball and the Lifetime Ban](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/pete-rose-betting-lifetime-ban/): Baseball's hits leader accepted a lifetime ban in 1989 over gambling, admitted betting on baseball in 2004, and was removed from the ineligible list after his death. - [Qatar 2022 World Cup and Migrant Labor](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/qatar-world-cup-migrant-labor/): How hosting the 2022 World Cup focused global attention on migrant workers' conditions in Qatar and led to labor reforms whose enforcement remains disputed. - [Ray Rice and the NFL's Domestic Violence Policy](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/ray-rice-nfl-domestic-violence-policy/): How the NFL's initial two-game suspension of Ray Rice, and the later release of the elevator video, forced changes to the league's Personal Conduct Policy. - [Russian State-Sponsored Doping and the WADA Response](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/russia-state-sponsored-doping/): Investigations found an institutional doping and sample-tampering scheme in Russian sport, including at Sochi 2014, leading to years of sanctions and legal disputes. - [Ryan Lochte and the Rio 2016 Gas Station Incident](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/ryan-lochte-rio-2016-incident/): An Olympic swimmer's false account of a robbery at gunpoint in Rio, the diplomatic fallout, and his suspension and loss of sponsors. - [The 1919 Black Sox Scandal](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/black-sox-scandal-1919/): Eight White Sox players were accused of conspiring with gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series. A jury acquitted them; baseball's first commissioner banned them for life. - [The NFL Concussion Litigation and Settlement](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/nfl-concussion-settlement/): Thousands of retired players sued the NFL over concussion risks. The result was an uncapped class settlement and a later fight over "race-norming." - [Tim Donaghy and the NBA Betting Scandal](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/tim-donaghy-nba-betting-scandal/): An NBA referee bet on games, including games he officiated, and passed inside information to gamblers. He pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2007. - [Tonya Harding and the Attack on Nancy Kerrigan](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/tonya-harding-nancy-kerrigan/): The 1994 attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, organized by people close to rival Tonya Harding, and the criminal and sporting consequences that followed. - [UNC "Paper Classes": The African and Afro-American Studies Scandal](https://sport.ethicscases.com/cases/unc-paper-classes-academic-scandal/): For nearly two decades, UNC–Chapel Hill offered irregular "paper classes" with no instruction. 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