Word: sportsmanship
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...statistics and past history aren’t enough to get you to the top of the Kazmaier heap. The award also considers sportsmanship, clutch performance, character, and a love of hockey...
...this league. They just use and get rid of us whenever they want.” And he’s right. The fact of the matter is professional sports is not, and has never been, about playing for the fans, or teamwork, or challenges and triumph, or sportsmanship, passion, fun, or any of the other noble characteristics that we often attribute to it. It’s about economics...
...other end of the bleachers. Bennett! Didn’t expect to see you here… what gives? “You caught me, man,” he sighed, shuffling my way. “I just love their competitive spirit, sound fundamentals, and winning sportsmanship. Hey, don’t tell the guys back at the club….” Your secret is safe—although I’m pretty sure I saw some members of the team at your last party. I definitely would not have pegged you as a staunch supporter...
...system of authority put together in Victorian times by the sort of upper-middle-class men (not women) who dressed for dinner in the far reaches of the Empire to keep up appearances in front of the natives. They stressed the benefits of order, hierarchy, muscular Protestantism and good sportsmanship. Even in its Victorian heyday, of course, not many in Britain behaved in this way. The world's first mass working class, shuffling from factories to boozy music halls, reveled in a raucous sentimentality. In the cities, Protestantism (or any religion), be it rugged or weedy, rarely got a look...
...captain Gideon Valkin ended his season and his career with 11 straight wins, earning Harvard’s sole nomination for the NCAA Sportsmanship Award...