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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Values’
53. Jungle Jim Hunter
Posted in The Challenge, tagged Excellence, Sportsmanship, The Challenge, Values on July 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
29. Bonnie Blair Cruikshank – Personal Bests
Posted in The Challenge, tagged The Challenge, Values on April 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Before the interview with Bonnie, I tried to do a little research about her beyond the usual records set and medals won. I came across this video of a presentation she did back in 2003. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8642906093769490553# In the vein of ‘emulating successful people’, I’ve tried to present a number of examples of people who are [...]
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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