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Good Sportsmanship
Are you a gracious loser? Does competitiveness ever interfere with good sportsmanship? Do you show good sportsmanship outwardly with a handshake and a "good game", but it kinda eats you up inside?
Do you have children in sports and are sometimes appalled at the over the top behavior their parents can show during events? Do some parents just get way too involved with their children's sports?
Can coaches who have the "winning doesn't matter just have a good time" attitude toward sports go too far with that at times?
Which is worse, a coach who takes all competitiveness out of a sport or one that cultivate competitiveness and rivalries?
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| July 11, 2008, 12:10 |
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funlovingpair
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Frozen Tundra, Minnesota, US
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Re: Good Sportsmanship
I always told the kids, its never about winning or losing, but how you play the game. Even when we were on the mixed bowling league, it was more about having fun than about who could get the highest score. We were in our second year, having fun and not caring about who was in first place. Well it ended up to be us. But not one person had anything bad say, maybe because we were bad enough on our own and everyone knew that we were out to have fun.
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| July 11, 2008, 14:33 |
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Re: Good Sportsmanship
I use to bowl, and if you find the right team it's good, but so often they all declare "we just wanna have fun" and at least one team mate or two show their gotta win blood thirsty dark side...
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| July 11, 2008, 19:08 |
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Re: Good Sportsmanship
It usually doesn't much matter to me in most cases. I am rather competitive however.--hehe Scond may be the "first loser", but it pays better than third. 
I do remember line from one album. Goes something like this.
female--"Hi, this is Jane"
male---Jane?
Female--From a few weeks ago?
Female--You said I was a good sport?, Well, I'm pregnant and if you don't marry me, I'll kill myself"
male---"Say, you are good sport!"
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| July 11, 2008, 23:13 |
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Jis4jugs
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Eastern, South Dakota, US
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Re: Good Sportsmanship
Usually I think I'm pretty good at losing or dealing with it. I do remember this one summer when my softball team was just kicking ass. We were winning left and right and had gotten trophys for all the tournaments. Now that I look back, I don't know why I pouted so much about it. We were at the state tournament and we were down to the championship game to a town north of here. By that time after all the ass kicking throughout the weekend... when that last game came around, we were worn out. The other team had so much advantage over us and we got second. I think I was the only one who didn't handle it that great. Probably pissed because i couldn't do much to help out. I wasn't out in the field much at that time and felt that they were lacking help, probably. Who knows.
Now that I think about it, I am just as excited about the trophys we did get, regardless if we were first or second.
Her
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| July 11, 2008, 23:17 |
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Re: Good Sportsmanship
I would thing a certain amount of competiveness would teach good team work and good sportsmanship.
I guess it's like anything and everything else...too much extreme one way or the other is just not good.
I do remember in High School, there was always this strong rivalry with another school and I really don't think any of us knew where, when or why it had started.
Did anyone else have this in their high school?
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| July 15, 2008, 16:41 |
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Re: Good Sportsmanship
Absolutely, in my neighboring city. The rivilary was awful. There was usually always a fight that broke out after the game. I thought it was sort of silly myself. 
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| July 15, 2008, 18:58 |
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