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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sportsmanship’
57. Beckie Scott, Part 1
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on August 3, 2010 |
55. Self-Awareness, Part 1.
Posted in Self-awareness, tagged perspective, Sportsmanship on July 27, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The underlying message of this blog is this: athletes with perspective, who see the big picture, believe in sportsmanship and fair play, etc., are also more likely to be successful athletes and successful people as well. One of the ways in which I believe this to be true is through heightened awareness of both themselves [...]
53. Jungle Jim Hunter
Posted in The Challenge, tagged Excellence, Sportsmanship, The Challenge, Values on July 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Jungle Jim Hunter was one of the original Crazy Canucks as a member of the Canadian alpine ski team in the early to mid seventies. These days, besides being both a coach and mentor of young athletes he has a radio talk show that airs in Calgary every Saturday that you can also get on the [...]
48. For Love of the Game
Posted in The Big Picture, tagged perspective, Sportsmanship on June 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Here’s a nice one from Rick Riley of ESPN.com. Pretty self-explanitory – a story of a great team keeping itself and sport in context. ***** We live in a world where Peyton Manning walks off the Super Bowl field without shaking anybody’s hand. Where Tiger Woods leaves the Masters without a word of thanks to [...]
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 [...]
45. The Letter of the Law
Posted in The Big Picture, tagged Sportsmanship, Values on June 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When we started this blog we wanted to keep the stories positive – examples of people who did things the right way, showed great sportsmanship or at least learned something from their experiences. This Sports Illustrated article is not exactly a positive story but there are those who would see no fault in how it [...]
44. Learning Through Sport
Posted in Value of Sport, tagged Sportsmanship, Value of Sport on May 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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. [...]
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 [...]
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