In June of 2009, Sport Calgary teamed up with two recreational facilities in Calgary for an event called All Sport One Day (www.AllSportOneDay.ca). The event was about exposing 6 to 12 year-olds to sports that they might not otherwise get the chance to try. Each of the two founding facilities (WinSport’s Canada Olympic Park and Cardel Place) offered [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sportsmanship’
94. All Sport One Day – Year 3
Posted in For The Love Of It, tagged Sportsmanship, Value of Sport on May 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »
92. Respect for Officials.
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on May 13, 2011 | Comments Off
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 [...]
89. Learning Through Sport.
Posted in Value of Sport, tagged perspective, Sportsmanship, Value of Sport on April 18, 2011 | Comments Off
I witnessed a relatively small and yet very positive show of sportsmanship a few weeks ago. I happened to be coming into the Talisman Centre here in Calgary on a Saturday afternoon just as a girls’ volleyball tournament was ending. I couldn’t tell you if they were school teams or club teams but they would [...]
86. Passion for Rugby in Fiji – Part 2
Posted in For The Love Of It, tagged Excellence, Sportsmanship on March 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The next day for me was a real cultural experience. From the hotel we drove some distance through terrain that was very hilly and covered in vegetation, to the rugby grounds that had been cleared and plowed flat. The grounds had three secondary fields arranged around the main field that had permanent covered seating complete [...]
85. Passion for Rugby in Fiji – Part 1
Posted in For The Love Of It, tagged Excellence, Sportsmanship on March 16, 2011 | Comments Off
Recently I saw an international rugby 7’s tournament (each team plays with seven players) from Las Vegas. It’s a really exciting format in that you can have a round robin tournament complete with a playoff round and championship game all in the span of a few days. The games are only 15 minutes long and [...]
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 [...]
71. A Great Moment In Sport
Posted in The Big Picture, tagged perspective, Sportsmanship, Values on November 8, 2010 | Comments Off
This is not a great moment in sport in the sense that TSN or ESPN will never rate this as a play of the week, but it’s one in which the two teams involved might never forget. It’s a YouTube video of a high school football game played about a year ago in which both [...]
66. Don Meyer – Great Coaching
Posted in The Big Picture, tagged perspective, Sportsmanship, Values on October 7, 2010 | Comments Off
Don Meyer may ultimately be remembered as the winningest coach in American college basketball history but I get the feeling this is only a trivial statistic for those who know him. The wins are merely a reflection of how dedicated he is to his profession, to the concept of team and to the young men he [...]
65. Relating To Your Competition or How To Avoid Being Your Own Worst Enemy
Posted in Being Your Best, tagged Sportsmanship, The Challenge, Value of Sport on September 28, 2010 | Comments Off
In previous posts I have written about the great sportsmen I was so lucky to have competed against in my skeleton career. Because they were champions in their own right, they knew the value of facing a great competitor in drawing out great performances in themselves (2. Emulating Gregor Staehli). I was very grateful to [...]
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 [...]
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