Word: sportsmanship
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...School-Dallas Academy girls’ basketball game on January 13, the score was 100-0. Winning in a close contest is one thing, but this game didn’t even deserve to be called a blowout: it was humiliation, pure and simple. In a country where bad sportsmanship in professional sports is not only prevalent but enjoyed by spectators—see any bench-clearing brawl between the Red Sox and Yankees for proof—the story of this episode of unthinkable athletic proportions swept throughout the country in a matter of days with outrage as opposed...
...indefinitely to an educational regime that administers only to the mind. For Harvard to produce once again well-rounded individuals, of strong character as well as strong minds, it would do well to revert to an older conception of moral education—of which the discipline, endurance, and sportsmanship provided by required physical exercise is a crucial component...
...Beijing and its high-spending sponsors and TV crews will be eager to give us what we want in the weeks to come: feats of athletic heroism that lift the heart and acts of extraordinary sportsmanship that reduce us to tears; young people who call us to the better possibilities of our nature and hundreds of thousands of Chinese working overtime to show off, with justified pride, the stunning achievements of their resurgent nation, in building itself up again from nothing in barely more than a generation...
...third-place finish at the New England Team Race Championship. Ever the team competitor, Kovacs earned some well-deserved recognition following the event. He walked away from the regatta with All-New England honors as a skipper as well as the Senior Award, honoring his talent and sportsmanship. To top it all off, Kovacs was named the New England Sailor of the Year. “It was pretty exciting. There were a bunch of really good sailors, and we’ve been really close all year,” Kovacs said. “It?...
...nice to know all the hard work has paid off.”Kovacs took home quite a bit of hardware from the event. “Kyle was not only All-New England, but he also won the senior trophy, which is basically a combination of sportsmanship and talent,” Garrity explained. “And even greater than that, he was the New England sailor of the year. We’re all pretty psyched about that.”Dolbec, who has crewed for Kovacs since their freshman year, has only good things...