Word: sportsmanship
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...radio broadcaster passes him the microphone. In the stands below, Trojan fans who have brought radios and boom boxes in anticipation of this moment tune in and turn up the volume. "Father in heaven, please bless the game," Jones intones. "Give us safety; give us a good spirit of sportsmanship...
...short history of the grudge match: The Hebrews invented it. Cain was the first winner, but God disqualified him on the grounds of poor sportsmanship. Abel was awarded the gold posthumously...
These Olympics, like those that preceded them, are conducted in the spirit of fair play and sportsmanship--at least until the competition starts. Everything was a grudge match in the cold war days, when, for the U.S., winning against the Russians and their vassals was a patriotic duty. Now it's much more complicated. Russia is pathetic. Nobody has it in for the Lithuanians--but one can learn...
...time when good manners among star athletes can be hard to find, fencing--a sport that values strategy over size and sportsmanship over personal glory--has struck a chord with a growing number of parents and their kids. An estimated 200,000 children as young as six have tried fencing, lunging and slashing at birthday parties as well as at fencing clubs and tournaments across the U.S. Since 1996 the number of registered members under 20 of the U.S. Fencing Association, the sport's governing body, has tripled, to 9,000. More than a third are girls. "It's graceful...
...Still's group now provides "assault insurance" for its 19,000 members. And 14 states have passed laws toughening penalties for violence against officials. Hundreds of leagues also offer parental sportsmanship classes, though only a fraction of those are mandatory. In the wake of Michael Costin's death, that may soon change...