| PAST DEBATE |
| WE SHOULD ACCEPT PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS IN COMPETITIVE SPORTS |
FOR: : 18% AGAINST: 63% UNDECIDED: 19%
FOR: 37% AGAINST: 59% UNDECIDED: 4%
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MODERATOR
Bob Costas, a 19-time Emmy Award winner, is the host of NBC’s Football Night in America studio show. He has covered every major sport, and serves as primetime host of NBC’s coverage of the Olympic Games. Costas has been with NBC Sports since 1979. Since 2001, he has been a host on HBO’s weekly Inside the NFL program. He also hosts a quarterly interview program on HBO, Costas Now. Every weekend Costas hosts his nationally syndicated 2 hour radio show by Premiere Radio Networks on 160 stations nationwide, featuring conversations with newsmakers and significant figures from sports and other walks of life, as well as Costas’ own commentaries and observations.
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Radley Balko is a senior editor and investigative journalist for Reason magazine. Previously, Balko was a policy analyst for the Cato Institute specializing in civil liberties issues, where he published a paper on alcohol policy and a groundbreaking study on paramilitary police raids. He writes a biweekly column for FoxNews.com and publishes the personal blog, TheAgitator.com.
Norman Fost, M.D., M.P.H. is professor of pediatrics and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, and director of the Bioethics Program which he founded in 1973. He has published widely on ethical and legal issues in health care, and served on numerous federal committees, including President Clinton’s Health Care Task Force, and from 1994-1998 was an elected member of the Princeton University Board of Trustees.
Julian Savulescu is Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. He is director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and of the Program on Ethics and Biosciences in the James Martin 21st Century School. He is also head of the Melbourne-Oxford Stem Cell Collaboration, which is devoted to examining the ethical implications of cloning and embryonic stem cell research. His areas of research include the ethics of genetics, research ethics, medical ethics, sports ethics, and the analytic philosophical basis of practical ethics.
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George Michael is a legendary sportscaster who pioneered the sports highlight shows that fill the airwaves today. He was the creator and host of the nationally syndicated Sports Machine, originally called Sports Final at its inception in 1980. During his 27 years as sports director at NBC4, he earned more than 40 Emmy Awards for excellence in broadcasting. Michael is the host of the award-winning Redskins Report, The Joe Gibbs Show and Full Court Press.
Dale Murphy a former Major League Baseball outfielder and catcher, was a seven-time All-Star, five-time Golden Glove winner and two-time National League MVP with the Atlanta Braves. He started the iWon’t Cheat Foundation to help rid sports of drugs, and to educate kids about the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs and the ethical issues involved in using them.
Richard Pound is chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency and a partner in the Canadian law firm, Stikeman Elliott. He has been named to Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world for his relentless efforts to rid sport of performance-enhancing drugs. Pound was an Olympic finalist at the Games of the XVII Olympiad in Rome in 1960, is a 30-year member of the International Olympic Committee and is a former president of the Canadian Olympic Committee. He is currently the chancellor of McGill University in Montreal.
We have moved to a new venue: NYU SKIRBALL CENTER (566 LaGuardia Place) Reception 5:45 - 6:30PM Debate 6:45 - 8:30PM Tickets $45






