Comments on: Be a Good Sport: A Guide to Sportmanship

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Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:54:15 +0000

[...] 119, and your friends ARE keeping track of your score whether they admit it or not. Show a little sportsmanship and integrity. If you lose to your friends at Halo, pick-up basketball, tennis, scrabble, bocce, [...]

By: Paul Smith

Paul Smith — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:08:17 +0000

Great Stuff Brett & Kate and subsequent comments. Have you any specific sportsmanship stories I can add to my collection of short sportsmanship stories? I’m particularly looking for ice hockey, baseball, basket ball, American football although I also welcome any sportsmanship stories. I’ve started a 10 year campaign to get sporstmanship back on the agenda of kids, coaches and commentators in Ireland, England and hopefully spread beyond at http://www.GreatMomentsOfSportsmanship.com .

Here’s a challenge to determine how committed to sportsmanship
http://www.greatmomentsofsportsmanship.com/?p=290#more-290

Best wishes
Paul Smith (author)

By: thepeople

thepeople — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:21:23 +0000

I played in an over 30 hockey league where things got out of hand concerning retaliation.

It ended with a guy getting slammed into the boards and breaking several ribs – he was carted off in an ambulance.

if you work for a living and play in a league for ‘fun’, the only thing that matters is that you get to participate.

Also, if you are a player coach, don’t email your teamates quotes of general Patton to fire them up for the game while you and they are supposed to be working.

By: rich

rich — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:30:19 +0000

Sometimes its acceptable IMO to be “unsportsmanlike.” What Im talking about is instances like what happened to Ian Kinsler the other day. He was buzzed high and inside in the 7th inning and then was pegged in the head in the 9th by the same pitcher. In that instance, if he had done it, I would have had no problem with him charging the mound. A pitcher expects these kinds of things when he constantly picking a player to come inside on and realizes it is inherent. Also when a manager comes out and shouts and screams and hoots and hollers with an umpire, it can sometimes benefit the team if its timed right to fire a squad up. Or a hockey fight for instance.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:32:05 +0000

I think you forgot the most important point: don’t care.

It amazes me how much people (men, mostly) invest in a competition. It becomes a divine war over ultimate domination. To me, it’s always just a game.