Tim Ellsworth

Cheating in sports

July 25th, 2007

Sports Illustrated has produced an interesting collection of articles about the topic of cheating in sports. In addition to a couple of broad articles addressing cheating in general, they have articles for every major sport about the types of cheating that take place. Look in the box entitled “Cheating” to see the entire collection of links.

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3 Responses to “Cheating in sports”

  1. Cineaste says:
    July 25th, 2007 at 6:12 pm

    The future of cheating is genetic doping. Check out Wendy the whippet Wendy is a the result of a double mutation in her myostatin gene. Scientists are researching this to treat muscular dystrophy but I fear that like all things, the knowledge can be misused.

  2. Klay Aspinwall says:
    July 26th, 2007 at 5:32 pm

    What was that movie with the genetic type-casting? Gattaca?

  3. Cineaste says:
    July 26th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    Yes. I highly recommend it.