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post #1 of 19
2/4/10 at 5:38pm
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How important is integrity to you in sports? Would you still be able to support your favorite teams/athletes if they were found to be cheating during a significant time in their careers?

I'm not sure I would still be able to be a fan of my favorite fighters if they were caught cheating. They essentially fooled us all.
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post #2 of 19
2/4/10 at 8:22pm
i contacted my favorite gladiator and told him to put the needle down. i'm sure lace appreciated it when nitro's backhand lost a bit of gusto during there private squabbles about their panned hollywood careers.
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post #3 of 19
2/4/10 at 10:21pm
Cheating in their respective sport, or in the case of John Terry, cheating on your significant other?
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post #4 of 19
2/4/10 at 10:23pm
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Originally Posted by ArteEtLabore14 View Post
Cheating in their respective spotr, or in the case of John Terry, cheating on your significant other?
This one. We give them money to see them play sports not be our moral compasses. How often someone cheats on their wife shouldn't be relevant here.
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post #5 of 19
2/4/10 at 10:28pm
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Cheating in their respective sport, or in the case of John Terry, cheating on your significant other?

Given Chipper Jones is my all-time favorite baseball player, I certainly hope we're talking about the former.

It would really bother me if I found out my favorite players were cheating. If it were a couple of guys on a team I might be more pragmatic about it, but if that team harbored a culture of cheaters it would really disappoint me.
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post #6 of 19
2/5/10 at 2:18am
sounds like a jerry maguire stunt. you mean professional sports? money = integrity? what about integrity in business, ha.
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post #7 of 19
2/5/10 at 7:01am
in favor. do what it takes to win the bad cheating, if it qualfies, is game-rigging by leagues, like the nba
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post #8 of 19
2/5/10 at 11:41am
What I hate about cheating is it robs others historical achievements.
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post #9 of 19
2/5/10 at 5:06pm
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What I hate about cheating is it robs others historical achievements.
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post #10 of 19
2/5/10 at 5:17pm
no, i woudl just think they messed up by getting caught.
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post #11 of 19
2/5/10 at 5:26pm
cheating is unforgivable, but personally I don't see using performance enhancing drugs as cheating. Cheating to me is stuff like rigging/throwing games and hiring goons to beat up your opponents outside the game. Integrity is still important though. If you're taking something, don't come out and say things like "I've never taken a performance enhancing drug in my life, shame on you if you have" If you choose to, just lay low and don't talk about it.
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post #12 of 19
2/6/10 at 9:56pm
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What I hate about cheating is it robs others historical achievements.
+100
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post #13 of 19
2/6/10 at 10:38pm
"I love a liar, but hate a cheater."
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post #14 of 19
2/7/10 at 12:44am
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cheating is unforgivable, but personally I don't see using performance enhancing drugs as cheating. Cheating to me is stuff like rigging/throwing games and hiring goons to beat up your opponents outside the game.

Would you change your opinion if PEDs are specifically against the rules?
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post #15 of 19
2/7/10 at 3:40pm
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Would you change your opinion if PEDs are specifically against the rules?
The thing is, I don't believe that leagues should mandate controls over players' bodies like that. I guess that leagues do have the power to set their own rules and it's tough shit if the players are kicked out for breaking them, but to me PEDs don't change how you play the game, so I don't necessarily see a problem with them. You have two guys, one of them's yolked up, but they still can't take three steps without being called for travels. They both have to shoot three pointers from the same line, if one of them can jump higher, isn't that athleticism? Being bigger, stronger, faster? I don't like how we put intense pressure on athletes to be bigger, stronger and faster and at the same time tell them there's a limit on how strong and fast they can be.
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