These friends have not only been a part of the good times, they have also been there through the bad times. Last year when I detached my ribs, I can remember being pulled from my sled at the bottom of the track after a run while a German brakeman and one of my rival American [...]
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23. Helen Upperton – May The Best Man Win – Part 2
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged Sportsmanship, The Challenge on March 12, 2010 |
22. Helen Upperton – May The Best Man Win – Part 1
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged Sportsmanship, The Challenge on March 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve always been a fan of the saying “may the best man (or woman) win”. It describes a competitive environment that at the end of my career looking back, I’m absolutely grateful to have been a part of (see 2. Emulating Gregor Staehli http://sportatitsbest.com/2009/11/19/2-emulating-gregor-staehli/). If everyone tries their best and everyone has a great performance [...]
20. We Can Learn From Curling
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged Sportsmanship on February 27, 2010 | 43 Comments »
Just to be clear, I’ve watched curling on television enough to understand what’s going on. I’ve even tried it once or twice, but my sport is skeleton. It’s extreme in terms of speed and because you’re flying down a track with your chin only an inch or two off the ice… Okay here’s the truth. [...]
Great Examples…
Posted in Great Examples, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on January 7, 2010 |
This one is from the December 29th, 2008 year-end issue of Sports Illustrated. It was written by Phil Taylor and titled Precious Medal. An altruistic act by eight high school runners in Washington reaffirmed the value of sportsmanship. I think it’s a great story and a great article and it matches well with one of [...]
Great Examples…
Posted in Great Examples, tagged perspective, Sportsmanship, Values on December 30, 2009 |
Here’s another great example of sportsmanship from college softball in Oregon a couple of years ago. It’s not the World Series but you can see from the coaches and players involved that it was very meaningful to them. If you haven’t seen this before, it’s fantastic, and a great example for athletes and coaches of [...]
Great Examples…
Posted in Great Examples, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on December 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Got an e-mail from Lester the other day, an old speed skating team mate of mine. He had a few stories to share about sportsmanship and this was one of them: Don’t know if you follow english “football” but the FA cup is like the Stanley cup, only bigger. Teams from multiple leagues compete, elimation [...]
Follow-up…
Posted in Great Examples, tagged Sportsmanship, The Challenge on December 7, 2009 |
The following Toronto Star article was actually recommended to me by two different people in the last week. It’s definitely worth the read and in a sense is very similar to the post about Gregor Staehli from November 19th. What you may or may not realize reading the article is that Jamie Gregg made an [...]
Follow-up…
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged Sportsmanship, The Challenge, Values on November 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I caught this commercial out of the blue on the television last night… http://www.values.com/tv_spots/106-Basketball I thought it was great and it reminded me of the original post of this blog. It also makes a great point – as my friend Matt Brown says, it’s not enough to just enroll our kids in sport and hope [...]
1. Sport At Its Best
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on November 10, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Mr. Little was a teacher and volleyball coach at Bridlewood Junior Public School when I was a student there in the late ‘70’s. What was so cool (and for me there isn’t a more apt word than ‘cool’) about Mr. Little was that he was actually a volleyball referee at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. [...]
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