Sports gone wild, part 1: are we part of the problem? 2005

Gordon O Matheson
Sports Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. gord@stanford.edu.

You've seen it all on the news: players assaulting fans, fans assaulting athletes, college footbrawl games, crass posturing, off-field criminal-or at least debasing-behavior, rampant drug use. In short, athletes whom we look to for inspiration are instead acting as though they live above the laws that govern civil society. What's gone wrong? And, more important, how have sports medicine professionals contributed to it?

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