Survey Finds Widespread Cheating and Pessimism about Ethics 

July 7, 2008 Wall Street Journal survey

A Wall Street Journal survey of 19 countries finds widespread pessimism about the state of modern ethics.

**From the Wall Street Journal:

"Europeans say cheating in business, sports and even love has become more prevalent over the past decade. Whether this phenomenon is real or perceived - actual cheating is hard to measure - people say the world has become a more ruthless, dishonest place.

"To study the issue, The Wall Street Journal asked market-research firm GfK to poll almost 20,000 people in 19 countries - 16 European countries, plus Russia, Turkey and the U.S. GfK asked whether cheating had become more common and whether it was a major problem. They also asked people to describe their own cheating habits. The survey covered a range of issues: taxes, business, academics, sports and romantic relationships.

"The results weren't pretty.

"Different cultures have different definitions of cheating: A merchant haggling over a carpet in a Turkish bazaar might offend a Dutch banker's sense of business propriety. A student who uses material from a Web site for an essay might be punished at one school but not another. But even with such shades of gray, cheating across a range of countries and disciplines - from boardrooms to bedrooms - is a growing source of concern, most people say.

"This sentiment reflects widespread anxiety about competition, according to ethicists. The proliferation of new wealth and the growing gap between rich and poor in many countries have spurred fears about being left behind. This worry, in turn, makes people suspect that others who appear to be getting ahead, making good grades in school or driving expensive cars, aren't always playing by the rules. In some cases, this worry might be justified.

"Others say the media have increased coverage of cheating scandals that once might have escaped public attention.

"When it comes to cheating, in business deals, on taxes or on the playing field, people often point a finger at Italy. European survey respondents (10%) most commonly named Italy as the country that cheats the most in business. Italians themselves (40%) also said they were the worst nationality when it comes to honesty in business.

"According to the GfK study, 91% of Italians described cheating on their taxes as a major problem in their country, the highest level among the 16 European countries surveyed.

"Broadly speaking, 48% of respondents around the world said cheating on taxes was more common today than 10 years ago, while 10% of respondents said it was less common.

"Business transactions were a matter of concern among most survey participants. Across the 19 countries included in the poll, 55% of respondents said cheating in business deals was more common than 10 years ago, while only 7% said it was less common.

"When asked which country cheats the most in business dealings, 7% of total survey respondents said Russia, the highest level in the survey. Italy (5%) was the second most common answer.

"Cheating at school is more common than a decade ago, according to 42% of survey respondents. Only 9% said it had decreased.

"Cheating at sports has become more common over the past 10 years according to 48% of those surveyed.

"When it comes to romance, 42% of those surveyed said they think cheating is more common than a decade ago. Only 10% said it had become less frequent.

"The survey didn't ask people why they cheat, but ethicists said widespread worries about cheating and the sense that cheating has become more common in romance and other areas could create a self-perpetuating problem. 'It seems pointless to keep your promises if no one else is keeping them, and the reasons for being honest fall apart if a significant number of other people %u2026 aren't abiding by these moral rules,' said Alex Voorhoeve, a philosophy lecturer at the London School of Economics."

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The Head Butt Heard Around the World: World Cup 2006 

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Zidane Loses His Cool

This July 2006 reports on the 2006 World Cup championship game there possibly the world greatest soccer player, Zinedene Zidane, loses his cool and head butt an Italian opponent. This action leads to the French losing the World Cup to the Italians.

Apology but No Regrets

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Troubles in Paradise 

Talent meets Trouble

The Rise and Fall of Michael Vick

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Update on Floyd Landis

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The Pete Rose Saga

This story debates whether Pete Rose deserves to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame based on his baseball credentials or his gambling, lack of remorse and overall character and behavior.

"Pacman Jones"

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Motivating Carmelo Anthony

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The Resignation of Pokey Chatman

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The Poor Reputation of Professional Cycling

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The Cincinnati Bengals

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The NFL Begins to Mobilize Against Bad Behavior

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The Sporting Institute

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An Incomplete History of Cheating and Bad Behavior 

a comprehensive look at the worst in sports

"Shaving Strokes and Integrity"

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"Bending the Rules"

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John Daly: PGA Bad Boy

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Kobe Bryant on Court TV

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The Mike Tyson Timeline

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The Terrell Owens Timeline

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The Art Schlichter Story

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The Character of Darryl Stingley

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Doping In Cycling

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Michael Vick and The Dirty Bird 

"The True Michael Vick Experience?"

On 11/28/06, Atlanta Falcons quarterback, Michael Vick was fined $10,000 by the National Football League and agreed to donate another $10,000 to charity for an obscene hand gesture toward Atlanta Falcons fans following a loss to New Orleans.

"I broke a rule and now I'm paying the price," Vick said. "The good thing is I get to donate a portion of it to charity."

After a dismal performance by the Falcons in a 31-13 loss, Vick showed his unhappiness by making the gesture with both hands as he walked off the Georgia Dome field.

"I can't really say whether it's fair or not," Vick said. "But the league makes the rules and I broke the rules. It is what it is -- 20 G's. I shouldn't have done what I did."

Falcons owner Arthur Blank met privately with Vick to discuss the incident.

"Michael knows his actions were inappropriate and he has taken responsibility for them, apologized to our fans, and been fined by the NFL," Blank said. "We know, through all his time with the Falcons, that this is not characteristic of Mike and not the way he represents our club."

Vick issued a statement after the game apologizing for his actions, and he went before the media the next day to again say he was sorry. The quarterback explained that he heard an especially disturbing insult from a male fan as he was heading for the locker room.

"He just said certain things I won't say in front of this camera," Vick said. "It was very inappropriate. I was down, upset, frustrated. I just did one thing I've never done through all the games I've ever lost, no matter how frustrated I've been after a game. I don't know where it came from, but the people who know me know that's not me and that's not my character."

taken from AP NEWS
The Associated Press News Service

Killing the Cash Cow and The Calf 

Bad Behavior and Cheating Taken To A New Level

"Kids idolize these guys, and those types of behaviors get modeled at very young ages, and it gets into their system as the way to behave. People love to see replays of a great move in a football game, for instance. But you also get to see replays of basketball or football players beating up on each other. So guess what? Obviously, the viewers - the fans - like that. If you have a steady diet of that for years, it's going to eventually affect you."

--Dr. Paul Fair, an Atlanta, Georgia psychologist specializing in stress and anger management.

When will the paying fans and TV viewers turn off professional sports? When will professional sports truly understand that they are losing fans and losing the essence of sports? When will the public give up on sports?

2006: The Year in Sports 

Bad Behavior and Cheating Taken To A New Level

The year in sports was one of bad behavior, violations, arrests, suspensions, fines, and criminal activity. Though 2006 was filled with the inspiration and glory that sports are so good at providing, there was also behavior so vile that sports fans had to ask themselves just what are they supporting with their money, their time and their emotions.

This fall, NBA commissioner David Stern suspended Carmelo Anthony for 15 games and fined him $640,097 in salary for his role during the NBA's latest brawl between the Denver Nuggets and the New York Knicks.

Earlier this season, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell suspended player Albert Haynesworth for an unprecedented five games after he used his 300-plus pounds to stomp on the head of his opponent.

In the 2006 World Cup championship game last summer, France's star Zinedine Zidane charged and rammed his Italian opponent with his head. Zidane was upset because he said the other guy said things about his sister. Zidane was ejected and as a result, ultimately, Italy won, France lost. Although Zidane later retired, he was suspended three games, fined $6,000 and asked to perform community service by the FIFA.

Floyd Landis, alleged winner of the 2006 Tour de France, could have been the hero of professional bicycling and ad-man for Swiss hearing aid maker Phonak. The pro cyclist made a dramatic comeback in the Tour de France to emerge as the winner and become only the third American winner title. The prestigious victory could have translated into a promotional campaign for Phonak, a rather obscure team sponsor-at least on a global brand level. Instead, Landis was stripped of his title after testing positively for illegally high testosterone use, and Phonak announced a new strategy to sponsor the arts.

Following a frustrating and embarrassing loss, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick gave his heckling hometown fans a common, routine and well-known gesture of the middle finger. He was fined $10,000. Not to be out-done, in another NFL game, Dallas Cowboy wide receiver Terrell Owens spit on opponent and Vick's teammate, Atlanta Falcon DeAngelo Hall.

Though unsuccessful in his attempt to break legendary Hank Aaron's career record of 755 home runs, Major League Baseball player Barry Bonds continued to be the center of attention because investigations into his steroid use. His run for the record forever tainted.

2003: A Kinder, Gentler Time 

More of the Same?

In 2003, we saw murder at Baylor University, including the basketball coach Dave Bliss who attempted to derail the investigation into the killing of Patrick Dennehy, his own player, in order to protect his dirty program.

The same year Washington football coach Rick Neuheisel was fired for illegally participating in a high-stakes NCAA basketball tournament pool.

Newly hired Alabama football coach Mike Price was fired before he ever coached a game for cavorting expensively with strippers during a trip to Florida, which violated a morals clause in the contract he hadn't even gotten around to signing yet. Mr. Price was quickly hired by the UTEP, to help them turn around a losing program.

Iowa State basketball coach Larry Eustachy was fired after pictures emerged of the coach drinking with and kissing undergraduates at a postgame party in Missouri.

Georgia basketball coach Jim Harrick, who left a scandalous wake at Rhode Island and UCLA, was fired, as was his son and assistant, Jim Jr., for rampant financial and academic fraud.

Kobe Bryant, was accused of rape in Colorado. He first denied it, saying the sex he had with a 19-year-old hotel employee was consensual. He ended that year shuttling between his job with the Los Angeles Lakers and court appearances in Colorado. The prosecution dropped the charges when the young woman decided not to participate in the trial.

Also in 2003, a parade of superstars, including Barry Bonds and New York Yankee Jason Giambi, testified in front of a federal grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO), a dietary supplement company suspected of providing the newly discovered designer steroid THG to athletes. BALCO founder Victor Conte claimed to have provided illegal substances to star American sprinters including Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery, as well as pro football and baseball players.

Four Oakland Raiders and dozens of other high-profile athletes are reported to have tested positive for THG, which in October was declared an unapproved new drug by the Food and Drug Administration.

The THG revelation roughly coincided with news released by Major League Baseball that more than 5 percent of major league baseball players had tested positive for steroids in anonymous testing.

Influences of Heroes and Role Models 

What the Experts Say

So, have our relationships with star athletes soured? While there is still a fairly large amount of adulation, it is tempered by resentment.

Remember, how we felt when, several years later after choking his coach, Latrell Sprewell demanded a trade because-while earning some $14 million this season-he worried about feeding his family?

"Kids will definitely take their cue from their heroes on TV," says Bob Still, public relations manager for the National Association of Sports Officials says. "Four years ago, when the Cleveland Indians' Roberto Alomar spit on umpire John Hirschbeck, we had never had an incident like that before at the youth level. But after that, we had three calls reporting spitting incidences" directed at youth sports officials.

While former NBA superstar and current TV analyst Charles Barkley proclaimed long ago he wasn't a role model, a recent study showed that kids ranked famous athletes among the most admired people in their lives

(73 percent) - second only to their parents (92 percent).

Nine out of 10 kids said famous athletes teach children mostly "good things." But some of the lessons learned from athletes are less than admirable, researchers say.

Three-fourths of the 1,500 10- to 17-year-olds and 1,950 parents surveyed said athletes teach children that being a good sport and playing fair are as important as winning. Nearly all said they understand that excelling in sports takes hard work and dedication, and 93 percent said famous athletes are motivational.

"This topic is very deserving of our attention because the fact of the matter is observational learning is one of the primary means in which children learn," said William Gayton, Ph.D., a sports psychologist and chair of the psychology department at the University of Southern Maine. "And children are going to learn from the models in their life - including their sports heroes."

Learning From Sports 

What We Really Get From Sports

In a recent study, a majority of kids surveyed believe it is common for sports figures to yell at a referee or official (74 percent); taunt or "trash-talk" an opponent (62 percent); use steroids or other banned substances to get an edge on the competition (52 percent); and take cheap shots or hit an opponent (46 percent).

And while most kids still think it is "never OK" to be a bad sport - 87 percent think it's wrong to take a cheap shot against an opponent, for example - many young athletes are nevertheless mirroring the example set by their favorite sports heroes.

Fifty-six percent of those surveyed said it is common for young athletes to yell at a sports official during a game. Kids believe taunting an opponent is also commonplace (62 percent) in youth sports, as is taking a cheap shot or hitting someone on the opposing team (45 percent).

"Some of this bad behavior we're seeing in professional sports is filtering down to local school yards and gyms around the country," said Tina Hoff, the director of Kaiser's Public Health Information, who helped develop the survey and analyze the results. "The general disrespect we're seeing on the playing field is running counter to what I think a lot of people hope sports does for kids, which is to promote sportsmanship and teamwork."

Matthew J. Taylor, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, analyzed drug use and behavior data collected from some 4,000 black girls attending high school in rural communities. Surprisingly, girls who took part in organized team sports reported more alcohol use and delinquent behavior than those who did not play sports.

"The premise that sports participation will keep people away from these behaviors was not true -- in fact, the sports participants actually were slightly worse," Taylor said.

Soccer Moms, Cover Your Ears! 

What The Kids Are Doing

Atlanta Soccer: Could the kids use a good bar of soap (in the mouth)?

See what Atlanta kids are doing for sport.

Recent Real Consequences 

What Behavior We Are Condoning?

Not surprising, parents' bad sportsmanship has escalated into violence and even resulted in death. In July 2000, a man named Thomas Junta attended his son's hockey practice near Boston. Junta disagreed with the way Michael Costin, a coach and fellow hockey parent, was running the practice. The two ended up fighting, and Costin died from the injuries he sustained in the fight.

Also in 2000, in Dade County, Fla., about 20 parents brawled at a T-ball game for 4- and 5-year-olds.
The case of the "baseball and hockey dads" is an extreme example of how parents sometimes take their children's involvement in competitive sports way too far.

In 2004, at the Athens Olympics Games, the top two Greek runners, Kostis Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, missed a series of doping tests. They said they had been involved in a motorcycle crash, but are now charged with faking the accident. Some two-dozen athletes tested positive for drugs in Athens - more than twice as many as at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

No incident caught the public attention than the brawl that broke out between the NBA's Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons fans at the Palace at Auburn Hills on November 19, 2004. Five Pacers players and five fans were charged with assault in connection with the scary incident. It started when a fan tossed a drink at Indiana's Ron Artest, who then leaped into the stands and began beating another fan. A melee ensued and the game was ended early.

Also in 2005:

A California high school football coach is caught on videotape moving a sideline yard marker so his team gains a first down and eventual "victory" in a league title game.

A Connecticut man allegedly beats his daughter's high school softball coach with a bat for benching the daughter after she skipped practice to attend her boyfriend's prom.

A Michigan youth hockey coach allegedly orders teammates to conduct bare-knuckle fights as part of a practice session.

A Texas high school football coach allegedly dismisses his team and pits ineligible, oversized players against a scheduled opponent, endangering that team's players -- and still loses.

A Texas high school football parent faces criminal charges for allegedly critically wounding his son's coach with a .45-caliber pistol.

Are They Role Models? 

What Kids Think of Athletes

"I think the league has better athletes. But I think the rise of talent, the rise of money, the rise of fame and the rise of power has affected the character."

--Curtis Martin, former NFL Pro-Bowl running back.

A recent survey suggests kids view the general character of athletes as negative. Although kids largely agreed athletes were smart and worked hard, two in three described sports stars as being "into money" and 40 percent called them cocky and arrogant.

Many kids also believed athletes get special perks off the field for their talent. Nearly one in four (24 percent) children surveyed said it isn't necessary to study hard and finish school if you are successful at sports. Thirty-four percent also believed sports stars received special treatment if they break the law.

On the topic of sexual behavior, the teens in the survey differed in their responses from youngsters aged 10-12. While 45 percent of 10-12 year olds said famous athletes were less likely to engage in promiscuous sex compared with the rest of society, 27 percent of teens surveyed said sports stars could have sex with whomever they chose. About one in three teens also perceived wild parties and careless sex as regular parts of the social lives of famous athletes.

Another study of youth sports found evidence of cheating, taunting, and even intentionally trying to hurt an opponent.

And the bad behavior wasn't limited to the kids. Some coaches admitted yelling at athletes - even verbally abusing them - and some players said they were struck.
Researchers at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the University of Minnesota and the University of Notre Dame conducted a recent study.

Among the findings:
Nearly 1 in 10 admitted cheating.
13% had tried to hurt an opponent.
31% had argued with an official.
27% had acted like "bad sports."

Seven percent of coaches encouraged athletes to cheat, and 8% encouraged their athletes to hurt an opponent, the young athletes told researchers.

Ironically, no coaches admitted either encouraging cheating or injury.

Combine that with demise of the authoritarian, "command and control" head coach, and a crisis could be brewing says Dr. Patrick Devine, a Kennesaw State University psychologist who worked with the Atlanta Braves throughout the 1980s.

Sports: Getting Back to Basics 

Challenge and Improvement

"Sports, in its best light, is about challenging yourself and improving youself as a person. It's not about looking for a medal at the end of an event; it's about a journey in which your phusical and mental well-being improves through physical activity."

--Mike Richer, retired NHL professional ice hockey player who helped the New York Rangers with the Stanley cup in 1993-1994 and who led the United States to a gold medal in the Wold Cup of Hockey in 1996.

Richter is currently a partner in a private equity firm, and regularly trains for triathlons and marathons.

What Now? 

Is There A Solution On The Horizon?

Dr. Patrick Devine, a Kennesaw State University psychologist who worked with the Atlanta Braves throughout the 1980s and a former college football player, says, "With a Tom Landry or a Bear Bryant or a Vince Lombardi, there was a sense of discipline and decorum. Today, we're too afraid to enforce the rules, because we're afraid we're going to offend somebody's individualism. This philosophy has worked its way up from the Pee Wee level to the pros. Now the ketchup has spilled out of the bottle, and we're not going to be able to get it back in there."

Can we do something about it. When will the tide be turned? To many, the Auburn Hills riot is indicative and symbolic of much of what is wrong in all sports but professional sports in particular. Athletes corrupted by too much money, freedom and untamed egos (and, perhaps, under excessive pressure to succeed), while fans are enflamed by too much alcohol, unleashing bottled-up frustration and resentment.

According to Sport Business Associates, global sponsorship of professional sports teams in 2006 is estimated to reach USD 33.6 billion-money spent in the hopes of creating more awareness and revenue for sponsoring brands hoping to grown its market share and attain maximum profitability.

Total dollars spent just four years ago was estimated at $24.4 billion, so the numbers clearly reveal an unprecedented upward trend for sponsorships.

However, what will happen to those dollars, should the stain on athletics continue to spread? Will professional sports wake up in time to save itself?

Roger Federer, Top Men's Tennis Professional 

Reputation Untarnished

"I take being a role model seriously. So I hope I can fit that spot that is maybe missing at the moment. I don't know."

Roger Federer, a tennis icon, has won 11 Grand Slam titles in four years. Yet, unlike many stars today, he displays no excessive ego, borish attitude or outrageous public behavior. On the contrary, Federer would like to leave a positive legacy behind.

Cleaning Up Sports 

Being Part of the Solution

Cleaning Up Cycling

This article in the New York Times on 11/15/07 reports on a past cycling champion who has come back to help clean up the sport of cycling.

Books and Videos 

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