Comments on: Ethical Dilemmas in College Sports http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/ethics-in-university-sports/ Business Ethics Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: James Wolfe http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/ethics-in-university-sports/comment-page-1/#comment-14288 James Wolfe Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:27:54 +0000 http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/ethics-in-university-sports/#comment-14288 I thought you and your readers might be interested in my latest novel, How to Rig the NCAA Basketball Championship for Fun and Profit. It's a tale about a college basketball referee with troubles on and off the court who decides the solution to all his problems, and maybe those of college basketball too, is rigging college basketball’s biggest game. And, as a byproduct, he planned to make millions of dollars in the process. Do you think it can’t happen?  Think again.  The books includes notes on not only how it can be done, but also on how easy it might be.   If you would like to review the book for your readers, I'll provide a complimentary copy, publish your review on my website with a link to your site and provide space for any additional comments you may have. For additional information, the complimentary review copy or an author interview, please e-mail me at james@jameswolfebooks.com or call 815-963-8383. Thanks in advance, James Wolfe Press release How to Rig the NCAA Basketball Championship for Fun and Profit is a humorous, poignant and alarming novel about a guy who plans to rig the biggest college game of them all for revenge and a whole lot of money. Over the many years Stanley Osborn officiated, college basketball had grown into a huge business, enriching universities, coaches, equipment and apparel manufactures, donors and the NCAA at the expense of the players. The brutal treatment of refs by rabid fans and overpaid coaches increased along with the game's popularity. Coping with the scrutiny of the media and the many conference and NCAA officials was becoming tougher. Even convincing his wife and daughter that his avocation was worth his time away from home was harder each season. But most troubling was reconciling the sleazier aspects of big-time college sports with its purpose of providing fair, equitable and sportsmanlike competition as part of the higher educational experience of the student-athlete.  Finally, after being suspended for tossing perhaps the best coach in the sport out of a key game, Stan had had enough.  He developed a plan to get even with all who have questioned his officiating talent and honesty and to focus much needed attention on the exploitation by and I thought you and your readers might be interested in my latest novel, How to Rig the NCAA Basketball Championship for Fun and Profit. It’s a tale about a college basketball referee with troubles on and off the court who decides the solution to all his problems, and maybe those of college basketball too, is rigging college basketball’s biggest game. And, as a byproduct, he planned to make millions of dollars in the process.

Do you think it can’t happen?  Think again.  The books includes notes on not only how it can be done, but also on how easy it might be.
 
If you would like to review the book for your readers, I’ll provide a complimentary copy, publish your review on my website with a link to your site and provide space for any additional
comments you may have.

For additional information, the complimentary review copy or an author interview, please e-mail me at james@jameswolfebooks.com or call 815-963-8383.

Thanks in advance,

James Wolfe

Press release

How to Rig the NCAA Basketball Championship for Fun and Profit is a humorous, poignant and alarming novel about a guy who plans to rig the biggest college game of them all for revenge and a whole lot of money.

Over the many years Stanley Osborn officiated, college basketball had grown into a huge business, enriching universities, coaches, equipment and apparel manufactures, donors and the NCAA at the expense of the players. The brutal treatment of refs by rabid fans and overpaid coaches increased along with the game’s popularity. Coping with the scrutiny of the media and the many conference and NCAA officials was becoming tougher. Even convincing his wife and daughter that his avocation was worth his time away from home was harder each season. But most troubling was reconciling the sleazier aspects of big-time college sports with its purpose of providing fair, equitable and sportsmanlike competition as part of the higher educational experience of the student-athlete. 

Finally, after being suspended for tossing perhaps the best coach in the sport out of a key game, Stan had had enough.  He developed a plan to get even with all who have questioned his officiating talent and honesty and to focus much needed attention on the exploitation by and

]]> By: Fumbled.org http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/ethics-in-university-sports/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Fumbled.org Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:20:58 +0000 http://www.ethicsinbusiness.net/ethics-in-university-sports/#comment-149 "Why do sports played by men tend to be more popular and generate more revenue than sports played by women? Are female athletes—and their coaches—disadvantaged?" I think it is because more men watch, promote, and base their lives around sports. More men will support more men's sports (unless it is beach volleyball) :) “Why do sports played by men tend to be more popular and generate more revenue than sports played by women? Are female athletes—and their coaches—disadvantaged?”

I think it is because more men watch, promote, and base their lives around sports. More men will support more men’s sports (unless it is beach volleyball) :)

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