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Media Activity 6

Media Activity 6

Q SPAD 284: Issues and Ethics in Sport Media Activity #6 – The Spy Who Signed Me Directions: Listen to ESPN 30 for 30, S6E1: The Spy Who Signed Me. Once you listen to the podcast, fully answer each of the following questions using complete sentences. Please type your responses (in a different font color) directly on this document and upload it to Blackboard. 1. Give a brief review of the documentary (one paragraph of at least three sentences). 2. Identify an ethical dilemma present in the documentary. To receive credit, explain how it is an ethical dilemma by incorporating the three components of an ethical dilemma into your response (hint: look at slide 11 from the very first PowerPoint in class). 3. Identify an ethical decision that was made in the documentary. Next, use the three components of Cavanaugh’s Model of Decision Making to explain how the decision might have been made. 4.What concert did Diana Taurasi and the rest of the Spartak players get Shabtai Kalmanovich to help them get tickets to? 5.In Europe, teams can only have two American players on the court at one time. How did Shabtai Kalmanovich plan to get around this with Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi on the same team? 6.The salaries of WNBA players are much lower than their NBA counterparts. According to the podcast, what was Diana Taurasi’s salary her rookie year in the WNBA? 7.After her first year playing in Russia, Sue Bird said she wasn’t going back; however, the team offered to sign Diana Taurasi too. After bonuses, how much were they set to earn per season following a meeting with Shabtai Kalmanovich?

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1. The documentary is about a unique Russian business man who signed American women’s basketball stars. The women who were signed include Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird to play for his club in Russia. The two women also tell all their grief which they experience throughout their journey after the death of Shabtai. 2. The ethical dilemma in the documentary was when Sue and Diana realized that the person who helped them had a past that was showdy. The dilemma was based on the three components: significant value conflicts among differing interests where both Sue and Diana did not known what to do after realizing that Shabtai had a bad past .