A few weeks ago a friend sent me this link to an article about a tribute the Montreal Canadians had for referee Bill McCreary following what would be his last game in Montreal. The friend was actually at the game and said the impromptu salute from both the players and fans at the end of [...]
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92. Respect for Officials.
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on May 13, 2011 | Comments Off
82. Perfect Sportsmanship.
Posted in Great Examples, tagged perspective, Sportsmanship on February 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last summer Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers pitched a perfect game – at least the replay showed that he had done so. The problem was that in what was to have been the final out, the umpire called the runner safe, erasing Galarraga’s place in history. You may remember the story because of how [...]
60. Beckie Scott, Part 2
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged Excellence, Sportsmanship on August 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This is part two of a series of four short videos of Beckie Scott, Olympic champion cross-country skier. In this segment Beckie talks about how she felt knowing there was a significant issue in her sport with doping and how she chose to deal with it and ultimately overcome it. If you have any comments [...]
57. Beckie Scott, Part 1
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on August 3, 2010 | Comments Off
Beckie Scott, Olympic champion cross-country skier, was kind enough to sit down with me last week and have a talk about several subjects relating to sport and specifically to her career in cross-country skiing. I’ve broken down the conversation into four short videos, all of which we’ll be showing on Sport At Its Best at [...]
47. Sportsmanship On The Pitch
Posted in Great Examples, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on June 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a nice one from a soccer blog called On The Pitch. It ties back to appreciating the amount of work that goes into achieving a goal and earning what you achieve (with a nice twist as well). ***** It seems that whenever you see ‘youth soccer’ mentioned in the news, it’s some story about crazed soccer [...]
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 [...]
32. A Defining Moment for Golf
Posted in Great Examples, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on April 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve come across a sport-related blog that features some absolutely superb articles and today’s post is one of them. The blog is called Sporting Reflections (http://sportingreflections.blogspot.com/) and talks about a variety of sports from cycling to soccer. Have a look at the articles about the risk and reward of the Winter Olympics and especially at [...]
Great Examples…
Posted in Great Examples, tagged perspective, Sportsmanship, Values on April 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here’s another great example of sportsmanship from a little over a year ago now. This is a reprint from ESPN.com. ***** Two missed free throws, ordinarily the cause of a coach’s headache, became the symbol of sportsmanship in a Milwaukee boys’ basketball game earlier this month. Milwaukee Madison senior Johntell Franklin, who lost his mother, [...]
Great Examples…
Posted in Great Examples, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on March 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here’s one sent in from Brent Langbakk who writes a blog about orienteering (http://langbakk.wordpress.com/). The following is an exert from Ultimate Orienteering (http://www.ultimate-orienteering.com/?p=1819) about the relay event in last year’s World Championships. I found it really interesting how they handed the medals to the competitors at the end rather than placing them around their necks. [...]
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