Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You want to claen up sports? Go to the source of the problem and don't let parents attend Little League games, etc.... Just my opinion. Back to lurking... - -Doug - ----- Original Message ----- From: <SthRosner@aol.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] My take is for favorite sport is... > In a message dated 6/26/02 1:49:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > imagist@concentric.net writes: > > > My young friend claims it is the first > > sport he's played where ethics play a major role on the field. > > Ethics used to play a major role on the field in most sports. I can remember > attending U.S. Tennis championships at Forest Hills where, when a line judge > made an incorrect call, the player who benefitted from the incorrect call > would deliberately lose the next point. It was routine 40-50 and more years > ago. > > As a young tennis and squash racquets player I used to overrule incorrect > line calls in my favor without even thinking about it. We called it good > sportsmanship. > > There is an undertaking going on right now called CharacterCounts!Sports > whose purpose is to bring back good sportsmanship to U.S. intercollegiate and > interscholastic sports. We've got many of the athletic directors and head > basketball coaches of major universities to sign on to a sort of manifesto of > good sportsmanship. Hope it works. > > Seth LaK 9 > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html