Word: sportsmanship
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...greater issue here is not one of preventing on-field conflicts or determining the relative harm of individual and group celebrations, but of attempting to legislate sportsmanship. Initially, expecting players not to be joyous seems unreasonable. If you were 25 and being paid millions of dollars to play a boy's game, wouldn't you be inclined to whoop it up in the end zone every so often...
...seems stranger for sports to attempt to legislate sportsmanship when some already-accepted rituals are anything but sportsmanlike. Baseball's retaliatory beanball will prompt a warning and, if done repeatedly, an ejection, but it is still an established--nay, often expected--part of the game. And hockey...let's not even talk about hockey...
...team banquet last Tuesday, Francisco won the Dooley Award, given to the player with the most sportsmanship, enthusiasm and dedication to the game. Francisco, who can play both center and wing and is one of the most feared players around the net in the ECAC, was an All-Ivy honorable mention this year with 14 goals and 36 assists...
...athletes straining the limits of human endurance, not an image of scandalous bribery. To be sure, the Olympics have endured tragic and disastrous events in the past, such as the bombing in Atlanta and the massacre in Munich. However, if the spirit of the games--the spirit of sportsmanship, courage and respect--cannot be destroyed by bombs or terror it would be a shame if it were corrupted by the very committee that purports to represent the Olympics...
...BOXING Following the retirement of Don King, the sweet science will enjoy a soul-stirring comeback, a Periclean Age of noble warriors who fight monthly, only against worthy opponents and always on free television. At weigh-ins, the combatants salute each other by reciting, from memory, quatrains about sportsmanship by Grantland Rice...