Gregg Easterbrook, for once not demonstrating his fact-free continued bias against Oklahoma, in something worth quoting:

I Took Stoll's Ethics Test and Got a Perfect Score! Of Course, I Cheated: Are athletes less ethical than the population at large? That's the contention of Sharon Stoll, who runs the grandly named Center for Ethical Theory and Honor in Competition at the University of Idaho. Stoll has tested thousands of collegiate athletes, and found them to have deficient "moral reasoning" skills compared to college students as a whole. A sample sort of question: You score a touchdown and know that you first stepped out of bounds, but the officials didn't notice. Are you honor-bound to tell the officials? Stoll finds that athletes of the past often said they were honor-bound to tell, but today rarely say this. TMQ sort of concurs: Enforcing the rules is the officials' job, and since officiating errors are randomly distributed, if you admit an error in your favor, your opponent will not admit an error in his favor, leaving you penalized for honesty. (Actual practice: As a county league flag football coach, I once told officials that my player had stepped out of bounds, unnoticed, on a play ruled a touchdown.) Stoll further finds that athletes who try to get away with things on the field are more likely to have bad ethics when it comes to more important issues such as drug use, lawbreaking and mistreatment of women.

Stoll's studies show a noticeable decline in the ethical standards of NCAA athletes in the past decade or so, plus a rise in the sense of entitlement, especially athletes feeling they are above the law. She finds that athletes in NCAA "revenue producing" sports -- football, men's basketball and ice hockey -- are more likely to have weak ethics than athletes in sports-for-its-own-sake events. Stoll finds athletes in individual sports such as tennis are more likely to be ethical than athletes in team sports. And though female athletes score better than males in tests of morality, Stoll finds that scores for women in sports are dropping so fast they might converge with scores for men. This conforms to the race-to-the-bottom theory of gender equality: As the sexes equalize, rather than men becoming more fair and kind like women, women become more aggressive and cold-blooded like men. Here is a summary of some of Stoll's recent findings.

Don't worry - TMQ is still as irrational as ever in parts, like where he accuses, without any evidence, Brian Billick of firing a good coach to take the credit for his work. I mean zero evidence:

In news about a team that isn't being outcoached, the Ravens are 5-0 and scoring an average of 10 more points per game since head coach Brian Billick fired offensive coordinator Jim Fassel and took over playcalling duties. Playcalling is more important than commonly understood. Coaches have good performances and bad performances at playcalling just as players have good games and bad games executing the plays -- and there's no doubt Billick is on a hot streak as a coach. But can playcalling make that much difference? TMQ wonders if Billick, many years removed from being considered an offensive mastermind, realized the Ravens' offense was about to jell under Steve McNair and fired an underling in order to ensure that he, Billick, got all the credit.

For a guy who cites stats to call coaches idiots, it's quite extraordinarily hypocritical to accuse Billick of firing Fassel to take credit for his work without one single piece of evidence. So next time TMQ accuses others of not living in the reality-based world, ask for his evidence that Billick wanted credit for Fassel's work. I'd love to see it.