Word: sportsmanship
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...BOUNDS When trouble breaks out at kids' sporting events, who are the likely culprits? More often than not, it's the parents--an embarrassment that has prompted the National Alliance for Youth Sports www.nays.org to develop a parental-sportsmanship course that includes a handbook, a video and an ethical code. It instructs parents to respect players, coaches and officials and to "place the emotional and physical well-being" of the child "ahead of a personal desire to win." Thirty leagues are already using the materials. Florida's Jupiter-Tequesta Athletic Association is making the course mandatory...
Extreme sports are mostly solo pursuits that fail to teach the valuable lessons of traditional sports--teamwork, cooperation, good sportsmanship and collegiality. Is this social progress? AMY HOPKINS Guilford, Conn...
When the Olympics come to Salt Lake City in 2002, the phrase "Let the Games begin" may take on a whole new meaning. Randy, 19, has been known to wield a samurai sword and says, in the spirit of true sportsmanship, "You know that if you've hit a kid in the head with a bat and he drops, you don't hit him again." Josh, now 20, is probably not the best guy to run through Salt Lake with the Olympic torch. He has no regrets about taking down that McDonald's. He is probably going to cool...
...estimated 10,000 Little League baseball games playing somewhere in the country tonight, and you'll see thousands of Nathans and Jennies striving to master not only their athletic skills but also the ethics of sportsmanship. You'll also see parents trying--and some who need to try harder--to balance their nurturing instincts with their thirst for victory...
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