Cam Newton Allegations

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/05/cam-newton-investigation-_n_779367.html


Deviance in sports happens every day whether it’s at the Professional, college, or high school level. In class we talked about some of the different things that take place and that are considered deviant in sports. One of those that we discussed was the illegal recruitment of college athletes by schools. This has become a widely discussed topic concerning Cam Newton the QB of the Auburn Tigers whose father has been accused of receiving money from the school to have his son play football there. While Newton hasn’t actually gotten in any trouble as of yet and he may not it’s a great example of how common this is. Even if Newton’s father didn’t receive any money there are countless times where this takes place and just goes untouched or is unknown by the general public. A prime example is Reggie Bush who recently had the Heisman taken from him because he and his family received money from USC to have the RB play football for them. This also could be very bad for Auburn as well, Coakley talks about how not only athletes are the ones at fault for deviant behavior but all people involved in Sports are. Coakley talks about how sports administrators take and give bribes to help their team in any way possible which is in full affect with this situation. (178) While as I said nothing has been proven and hopefully nothing will come of it; it still shows just how prominent deviance is in sports every day.