The Importance Of Sportsmanship In Sports

Many everyday encounters can test our values. In sports conflict is expected, and as skill level increases conflict becomes more prominent. This is even more evident to coaches, as they experience conflict from players, referees, and parents. In my experience, coaching many times I must hold back what I want to say and walk away. One specific encounter with two parents tested my values of respect, positivity, and self-worth. In this experience, two parents confronted me after a game about the substitutions going on on the field, as I was a youth coach learning how to run the bench I was appalled at this statement. In this instance, I related to the barber contemplating what to do, “ What do you gain by it? Nothing.” (pg.15A) I also connected with the idea of upholding a reputation, as I would not want to be viewed as anything less than a great coach, “Murderer or hero?” (pg.15C) My values of respect and positivity helped me walk away from this situation, which further revealed how my character is centered around integrity.

Sportsmanship matters not only in sports, but also in the rest of our everyday lives. In any competition,

Career achievements need to be based on professional conduct and milestones covered. However, the big sports associations such as Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Football League (NFL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) tend to factor in other principles as well (Withers 147). For these leagues, certain behaviors off the field are keen indicators that determine how a player is viewed. With such efforts, these leagues aim to maintain a standard that professional athletes can use to guide their lives. However, there are questions that linger regarding the forms of conduct that are deemed to be unworthy of these athletes. The question is also posed to the wider society since these professionals are a part of it (Schrotenboer

An increasingly popular topic in the realm of sports fans has begun to unravel. The National Football League recently has begun to introduce new rules and regulations for their athletes to start abiding by to ensure the continued safety of the player’s health. Although most find this change in the game of professional football as a positive step forward, others see this as a diminishment of the sanctity of NFL football. New rules and regulations that have been introduced into NFL are vital to athletes involved in the sport and help them to play with lowered risks of long term injuries that could possibly affect not only them but also the league in the future as well. The reasons for these

The treatment of minority athletes, particularly African Americans has been a grave issue in American sports for decades. More than fifty years ago, to be a colored person playing a so- called “white sport,” meant that it was an unfortunate fact that inequality, prejudices and racial discrimination came along with that territory, and it is also an unfortunate fact that some of those racial tensions are yet in full, modernized effect today. African- American starting five, or starting lineman, being told what to do, when, and how to do it by their Caucasian coaches, and general managers, are in sync with past century notions of African- American slaves being under total dominion and authority of

Continuing with this big picture view, college athletic salaries are bad news for the quality of collegiate sportsmanship. President of the NCAA, Myles Brand, once stated, “If you start paying athletes, you essentially ruin the integrity of the college game.” What Mr. Brand means by this is that once the motivation of the player is changed to a fixed monetary value rather than the pride and passion of the sport, college athletics become devalued and the level of sportsmanship among players alike is dismantled. A Division I board of director chairman and Chancellor at the University of Kansas agreed with Brand is stating, “even if born of the best intentions, pay for play is the worst of ideas.” This director compares the situation to a “slippery slope” in which college sports would eventually fall to corruption, with new questions and debates being raised and athletes becoming enveloped with the idea of “gaining more money” instead of “winning more games”

It is important for the athletic directors and other authoritative figures in men’s basketball to strive for a common goal and establish a better sense balance among those in the basketball environment by changing the contradicting expectations and policies of the NCAA. Some say basketball players have been taken advantage of for far too long and ask “how much longer are universities willing to wait [the] before students see them as a threat and an aid to the issue rather than a source of education and athletic support”? Neglecting the issue has only postponed its significance to emerge as more relevant. By helping address this issue with urgency will allow the players to feel acknowledged and help create a solution for everyone’s benefit to the issue at

In recent years, collegiate athletics has evolved from the original spectrum of rivalry competition into a business model that focuses on branding and expanding markets. According to Stephanie Harrison-Dyer (2011), “Sport is too much a game to be business and too much a business to be a game” (p. 1). Although competitive sport has contributed remarkably to human culture, the increased popularity of sport and sport enthusiasts has generated a greater concern for moral and ethical conduct among athletes (Harrison-Dyer, 2011). With increased pressure on administrators

While there is definitely plenty of blame to go around, the Pacers-Pistons brawl has raised more than just questions over who is the culprit. Media pundits want to know who are the victims? Are the victims America's families who can no longer attend a professional sporting event without the fear of it erupting in violence? Are the victims teenagers and adolescent children who wear number 91 Artest jerseys because they idolize him as a player? Are the victims those professional athletes who have worked hard to promote sportsmanship and integrity in their sports, only to see one of their own tarnish the whole profession? The Pacers-Pistons brawl has all the right ingredients for a good debate. The incident is squarely at the intersection where sports, culture, values and politics all meet. In this age of mediated sports stars it is hard to push aside the action of our athletes. We can no longer view them as being trivial to our society, especially when their actions are as visible and as jarring as the ones that occurred last November. The visibility of our athletes is unquestioned. With multiple 24-hour cable sports channels, national sporting magazines and nationally syndicated call-in sports radio shows, sports have become a dominate fixture in American society. We worship our athletes. What's not to worship? More than their Hollywood counterparts athletes get tagged with the role model

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a member-led organization that regulates the athletes of over 1,200 universities, conferences and organizations. The NCAA prides itself on dedicating themselves to the wellbeing and lifelong success of college athletes, believing and committing to core values and beliefs (NCAA). The NCAA’s main and most important task is to make sure that all students and institutions adhere to the extensive rules and regulations that the Association has created (Andrews). Although the National Collegiate Athletic Association is a famous and well-know organization, it has flaws within the system of regulating college athlete’s collegiate sports career. The condition of which college athletes are in while under regulation of the NCAA is neither ethical nor fair. In this paper I will argue that it is not morally ethical the way that the NCAA treats college athletes; the system must be reformed and changed so that college athletes are treated with the utmost ethically moral respect.

The high school athletic association within each state is granted the right to govern and implement all of the regulations and policies related to the interscholastic athletics participation of the high schools (Sharp,Moorman,Claussen, 2014). In the article “Parent behavior, cyberbullying hurting high school sportsmanship”, the high school athletic association throughout the U.S has had several reoccurring issues such as constant interference by the athlete’s parents, social media and cyberbullying, and lack of sportsmanship.

"If the team is in a championship game and a star player violates a team sportsmanship rule which requires removal from the game, the rule must be enforced." ("Sportsmanship",3) The Youth Sports Institute says to reinforce sportsmanship behaviors and penalize unsportsmanlike behaviors ("Sportsmanship",3). The coaches should have disciplined Boobie when he was angry and threw his shoulder pads against the wall, instead of ignoring him.

Incivility and civility play a major role within our society. Society has numerous policies that are put in place in order to keep the peace, this is seen through all different groups of society from the highest level of government down to the schools and colleges. For many students, college means partying, making new friends, freedom and getting an education however, for athletes it’s different. At Allen Community College there are a set of policies and guidelines that is formulated by the coaches to reach their long term goals. These polices are designed to influence and help make all major decisions and all the activities that take place within boundaries set by them. Three of the most common rules in every team at Allen is a curfew, shared punishment and, study hall.

tend to forget the reason for sports for children. They get caught up in the excitement

Sports, admittedly, have had a huge impact on our culture. Some of us even use sports as an excuse to gather our family for some quality time with each other, whether they just hangout for the sake of entertainment or engage in a meaningful conversation full of fervid passion when discussing spectacular plays, athletes, and coaches. However, people talk about the multitude of positive traits that sports are associated with, one must be informed about the abundance of issues that sports face; issues that keep sports from being what we want it to be- free from malicious intent and more along the lines of a peaceful collaboration perpetuated by authentic equality; coming together to proclaim our love for the game. Inequality, for example, is