Word: sportsmanship
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When the Baltimore Orioles' Roberto Alomar spit in the face of an umpire [Sport, Oct. 14], baseball presented a perfect microcosmic example of the decline of American culture, from the loss of leadership, courage and reasoned authority at the owner and governing level to the loss of sportsmanship, work ethic and basic respect at the player level. In order to remain a fan over the past few years, I have concentrated on the game itself and avoided the surrounding drama. Now, however, there is no place to avert my eyes, for the nastiest scene yet has taken place right...
Though he'll vie for the championship this year, he has already sacrificed his sportsmanship...
...that one moment of heated confrontation, Alomar struck at the spirit and sportsmanship which define baseball...
Year after year Edberg has won the season-ending Sportsmanship Award until they were forced to name it after him--before he retired. In an age where Dieon Sanders, Shaquille O'Neal and Andre Agassi are being glorified, Stefan Edberg stepped out of big-time tennis as quietly and gracefully as he came in, more the champion than either of those three could imagine...
...fairy-tale Olympian mythically has to conquer: excellence (in the heroic third-straight gold of 4-ft. 11-in. Turkish weight lifter Naim Suleymanoglu); integrity (in the radiant face of Jonathan Edwards, the British triple jumper who said he was thrilled to get silver and made you believe it); sportsmanship (in the tears of American Lindsay Davenport after she beat her "very best friend," Mary Joe Fernandez, in the women's tennis semifinals); and brotherhood (in the 82-kg wrestling bout in which Elmadi Jabrailov of Kazakhstan beat Lucman Jabrailov of Moldovia--his elder brother and coach--before...