A friend of mine named Bob is in his mid-seventies now. We were talking about sportsmanship and the value of sport and it jarred his memory about a time years ago now when he attended Ridley college in southern Ontario. In an e-mail he recounted an experience that has stuck with him throughout his life. [...]
Archive for May, 2010
44. Learning Through Sport
Posted in Value of Sport, tagged Sportsmanship, Value of Sport on May 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
43. Jay McNeil’s Speech
Posted in The Big Picture, tagged perspective on May 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Jay McNeil is a former offensive lineman for the Calgary Stampeders football club. In keeping with the theme of last week’s post, this was Jay’s speech to the Terry Fox foundation last year and he was kind enough to allow us to reprint it here. It says a lot about Jay and his values and [...]
42. Terry Fox
Posted in The Big Picture, tagged perspective, The Challenge on May 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Recently on the suggestion of a friend, I read a biography of Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope. I think that anyone from any country who reads the book would get something out of it but I wish it could be required reading for young Canadians. If you’re not old enough to remember what [...]
41. Self-referee In Ultimate Frisbee
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on May 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This post is from a friend of mine who’s played many sports in her life including ultimate frisbee. It’s actually a response to last week’s post about how there seems to be a disproportionate number of sportsmanship examples in golf and how that may have something to do with the fact that the rules are, [...]
40. Just Another Day at the Golf Course.
Posted in Great Examples, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on May 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My first thought reading this was ‘is that actually a rule?’ When you get beyond the strangeness of it, you see that it’s another example of sportsmanship winning out in the sport of golf. More often than not in professional sports you see examples of athletes bending the rules, embellishing the severity of an opponent’s [...]
38. Positivity
Posted in Value of Sport, tagged perspective, Value of Sport on May 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
There was a book I picked up at a little magazine shop at the airport once called The Power of Kindness by Piero Ferrucci. It looked interesting and was along the lines of some of the books that I had been reading at the time. The book turned out to be really easy to read [...]
37. Teamwork and Positive Rivalry – Part 3b
Posted in Teamwork, tagged Teamwork, Values on May 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The turning point came after the 2003/2004 season when I had my career best year and Jeff had his worst. In the spring, Jeff called and asked if we could meet one-on-one (he did this with every member of the men’s team). In the meeting he confided in me that he had not enjoyed the [...]
36. Teamwork and Positive Rivalry – Part 3a
Posted in Teamwork, tagged perspective, Teamwork on May 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As part of the Canadian men’s skeleton team, I know first hand the benefit of a positive rivalry. Jeff Pain and I ended up working together to achieve more than I believe either of us could have alone. Of course, insinuating that my success was contributed to more by what Jeff brought to the team [...]
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