Sport and Society

Readers of this blog might be interested in the blog Sport and Society, which includes "Commentary about sport from the Center for ETHICS*, University of Idaho, the leading research center in the world in curriculum development and research about moral reasoning and moral development of athletes and coaches."

Recent posts include:
How do we justify pay for football coaches?
Reflections on John Wooden's Coaching Style
Would you cheat for $385,000?

Equity of prize money in tennis...

Although it's not a particularly new area of debate, David Edmonds on the University of Oxford Practical Ethics blog has recently written a post arguing against the claim that women and men should receive the same prize money in tennis. His main syllogism is that prize money should be dependent on ability, men have greater ability than women, therefore men should receive more prize money than women. He does concede that there is a degree of personal interest involved in his claim in that any counter-argument resting on the premise that women should receive extra advantage in their 'handicap' [my word not his] by virtue of sex, would descriminate against him as a less tennis-abled man.

Take a look at his post and get the discussion going...