Word: sportsmanship
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...CBOA presents the prestigious Samuel Schoenfeld award to the college coach who displays the greatest sportsmanship on the bench, so that officials are conscious of coaches' demeanors...
Then sound the trumpets, drop the handkerchiefs, and cheer the carnage while American Football, Character and Sportsmanship burn...
...Economic Committee, he has become a chief spokesman for the Democratic program of housing subsidies, national health insurance, and long-term energy and economic planning. Though much of this legislation has been rebuffed or vetoed by Ford, Humphrey has led the disorganized opposition with his customary good cheer and sportsmanship, disarming his critics and winning allies. George McGovern, for one, has strongly hinted that he would support a Humphrey candidacy...
...highly adulterated. By his own witness, he is a man with a heart as big as the Astrodome. To be sure, Leo is of the Vince Lombardi persuasion: "Show me a good loser in professional sports," he declares, "and I'll show you an idiot." But having thumbed sportsmanship out of the game, the Lip spends the rest of his book atoning for his early excesses-by introducing some worse ones...
...tedious and, well, maybe a little disillusioning. "You get really tired of living with people, day in, day out--you didn't really have a chance to get away from people...And I didn't really like a lot of what I saw--things that were unsporting, just bad sportsmanship. I don't know, maybe it's because women's crew is such a new sport, but you'd think you'd be above that by the time you got to the world-championship level. I don't know." She hesitates, not really wanting to put into words what...