Word: gamesmanship
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...them combined for one of the best goals of the tournament in Brazil's quarter-final match against England?a scintillating Ronaldinho run, finished off by a showpiece Rivaldo left-footed flick. (Earlier in the tournament Rivaldo provided the tournament's most distasteful piece of gamesmanship when he feigned a face injury from a ball struck by Turkey's Hakan Unsal that had hit him on the leg. The Turk was sent off for a second yellow card offense?an incident that earned Rivaldo heavy criticism and a not-so-heavy fine...
...them combined for one of the best goals of the tournament in Brazil's quarter-final match against England - a scintillating Ronaldinho run, finished off by a showpiece Rivaldo left-footed flick. (Earlier in the tournament Rivaldo provided the tournament's most distasteful piece of gamesmanship when he feigned a face injury from a ball struck by Turkey's Hakan Unsal that had hit him on the leg. The Turk was sent off for a second yellow card offense - an incident that earned Rivaldo heavy criticism and a not-so-heavy fine...
...eight mechanized divisions with 1,600 battle tanks, including first-line U.S. M1A1s--into the Sinai peninsula to threaten the Israeli frontier. Compelling the Israelis to mobilize their own army, which would very likely freeze any further action against the Palestinians, would make sense as a piece of military gamesmanship. But strategically it would be catastrophic, because if the Egyptians acted, Syria's young and insecure President Bashar Assad would most likely feel compelled to compete with them by sending his own armored forces--seven divisions with 2,000 tanks--to threaten the Golan frontier. And then even King Abdullah...
...claiming the University somehow failed to live up to the report in these negotiations is not telling the truth. In fact the only thing that did not live up to the cooperative spirit of the HCECP was the public nature of the negotiations, which served as an encouragement to gamesmanship, not bargaining...
...Score Choice] created so much confusion and gamesmanship,” Cairns said. “Some forgot whether they had sent their scores to colleges...