This text examines key issues such as drugs in sport, violence, scandals and unethical practices. A comprehensive coverage of the ethical issues confronting sport in contemporary society.

PART I: FAIR PLAY, BEING A GOOD SPORT, AND CHEATING: AT WHAT PRICE VICTORY? : Sportmanship as a moral category / James W. Keating -- Fair play as respect for the game / Robert Butcher and Angela Schneider -- On winning and athletic superiority / Nicholas Dixon -- Some reflections on success and failure in competitive athletics / Edwin J. Delattre -- Opponents, contestants, and competitors: the dialectic of sport / Drew A. Hyland -- Cheating and fair play in sport / Oliver Leaman -- PART II: THE LIMITS OF BEING HUMAN: THE CASE OF PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS: Listening to steroids / John Hoberman -- Good competition and drug-enhanced performance / Robert L. Simon -- Paternalism, drugs, and the nature of sports / W.M. Brown -- As American as gatorade and apple pie: performance drugs and sports / W.M. Brown -- Sports and drugs: are the current bans justified? / Michael Lavin -- Drug testing of college athletes: the issues / Richard R. Albrecht. William A. Anderson, and Douglas B. McKeag -- Privacy and the urinalysis testing of athletes / Paul B. Thompson -- The ethics of blood testing as an element of doping control in sport / Alister Brown, Victor LaChance, and Andrew Pipe -- PART III: WOMEN IN SPORTS: GENDER EQUITY AND GENDER IDENTITY: Sex equality in sports / Jane English -- Women, sex, and sports / Raymond A. Belliotti -- Gender equity and inequity in ahtletics / Robert L. Simon -- Title IX: equality for women's sports? / Leslie P. Francis -- Sports and male domination: the female athlete as contested ideological terrain / Michael A. Messner -- Sexualization and sexuality in sport / Paul Davis -- PART IV: ANIMALS AND THEIR USE IN SPORT: WHERE DO WE DRAW THE MORAL LINE? The ethics of hunting / J. Ortega y Gasset -- Animal liberation / Peter Singer -- Why hunting and trapping are wrong / Tom Regan -- Rodeo and recollection: applied ethics and Western philosophy / Bernard E. Rollin -- PART V: THE SOCIAL ETHICS OF SPORT: IS SPORT GOOD FOR SOCIETY? : Violence in sports / Robert L. Simon -- Ethics, sport, and boxing / Angela Schneider and Robert Butcher -- Patriotic sports and the moral making of nations / William J. Morgan -- Is our admiration for sports heroes fascistold? / Torbjorn Tannsjo -- Conventiion and competence: disability rights in sports and education / Anita Silvers and David Wasserman.