PHL376H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Competition, Opportunity Cost, Intramural Sports

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The corruption thesis: the commercialization of sport corrupts sport because market values conflict with the internal values of sport. External goods get introduced into sport and get people to value something other than the mutual quest for excellence through competition. Gulyas-kukal match: kukal collapses from cramps, gulyas protests that kukal be given extra time, kukal wins in 5 sets. Simon page 191: commercialized sport can play a positive social role as long as it sets ethical boundaries. Page 178: commercialization may have had a corruptive effect on other athletes but it does not seem to corrupt people s love of the game (some of his exemplars are wrong now ahem lance armstrong) Take any problem that sports are subject to; cheating, violence, demise of team play, attempt to inflate individual statistics, all of these things are worse because of the commercialization of sport. Not clear that on the whole that commercialization is actually good for sport.

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