July 22, 2022
In July 2020 Holly Shick was hired by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) as its first Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer. After nearly […]
May 25, 2022
Over the past year the job of a college athletics compliance officer has gotten much tougher – some would say it’s now almost impossible to effectively […]
May 3, 2022
As scandals in professional sports continue to occur at an alarming pace, the entire industry clearly has reached a critical crossroads, making it incumbent upon its […]
March 21, 2022
On May 14, 2018 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a highly anticipated ruling that struck down the federal ban on state authorization of sports betting. This […]
February 24, 2022
Repeating history, the major professional sports leagues in the U.S. continue to be plagued by scandals involving, among other issues, allegations of sexual and domestic abuse, […]
February 18, 2022
On February 3, 2022 the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy held a hybrid roundtable with six former […]
November 2, 2021
“Bad Sport,” a new true-crime series on Netflix, examines some of the biggest controversies and scandals in the history of sport. True crime and sports intersect […]
October 11, 2021
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Boxing Association (AIBA) have significant integrity problems. The IOC is the guardian of the Olympic Games and the […]
April 30, 2021
Upon reading Adam Turtletaub’s recent post on The Compliance and Ethics Blog entitled “A New View of Compliance,” I reflected on numerous articles I have written […]
February 8, 2021
According to Trent Rosecrans, president of the Baseball Writers Association of America, “MLB has promised to consider instituting a third-party confidential hotline so that violations can […]
January 11, 2021
While horse racing in the U.S. has historically been regulated by the states, the recent passage by Congress of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (“HISA”) […]
September 11, 2020
By Adam Turteltaub This past weekend saw two incidents in professional sports in which the officials were forced to make a tough call and had the […]