Allison Learman's List: What Sportsmanship is Not

• he doesn't even try to hold his temper.

  • Specific example of bad sportsmanship
• Fear and unrealistic expectations regarding his athletic performance are ruining your son's ability to enjoy sports

  • What effects bad sportsmanship have on a person's career.

• They celebrate a goal with a prolonged victory dance or constantly brag about their abilities.

  • Sets up for more specific examples. If there aren't any in this article, look up in a different one.
• Most people won't go on to play professional sports, and only a few will win scholarships to play at college.

  • Maybe look up the actual statistic for that and it would be a really great fact to incorporate into the argument.
• Plenty of games have been lost to penalties gathered from "unsportsmanlike conduct."
• a great tradition in sports and competition that means playing clean and handling both victory and defeat with grace, style, and dignity.

  • Definition on what sportsmanship actually is. "Tradition" and "playing clean" sounds like sportsmanship only refers to sports. But maybe further down in the article, the definition extends to other areas of life.

• a great tradition in sports and competition that means playing clean and handling both victory and defeat with grace, style, and dignity.

    

  What Is Sportsmanship?
• parents and coaches sometimes put too much pressure on athletes
• Good sportsmanship takes maturity and courage
• In competition — as in life — you may not always win but you can learn something from losing, too.

  • Again, sportsmanship is referred to in a different context and not just in sports. The term is gathering more evidence of extending to other contexts!
• sportsmanship means finding that the positive attitude learned on the field carries over into other areas of life

  • COuld be used as a direct quote about how sportsmanship carries over into other aspects of life.
• school
• at work
• treating the people you play with and against as you'd like to be treated yourself.

  • Reoccuring theme of "treat others the way you want to be treated"
• including customers and coworkers.
• When you lose, lose with class.

  • Part of the Definition of sportsmanship.
• Cheerleaders, fans, and parents also need to be aware of how they behave during competition.

  • Exactly. Sportsmanship extends to others not involved solely in sports.
• When it comes to losing, good sportsmanship means congratulating the winners promptly and willingly.

  • Gives definitions for both how sportsmanship applies to winning and losing in sports. Very helpful to have both definitions!
• When you win, the trick is to be a gracious and generous winner.

  • Look at previous note about having two definitions for sportsmanship.
• Here are some examples of things you can do

  • The following are all specific examples of how to act with sportsmanship.
• on a team

  • Question: what constitutes a "team"? If I use this piece of information for anything significant, remember to define team as well.
• Talk politely and act courteously
• Remind yourself that no matter how hard you've practiced and played, it is, after all, just a game.

  • Question: If I use this piece as well, be sure to define what a "game" is. Does it solely include sports, or does it also include other things like work, school, dressing up barbies, shooting BB gins?
• Remember, too, that if you respond with violence you could get penalized, which could hurt your chances of winning.

  • So if one acts with sportsmanship, does that mean they are only trying to accomplish one goal--winning? It seems like that is what this article is provoking. 
• positive statements
• avoid trash-talking
• Acknowledge and applaud good plays
• Remember that referees may not be right every time

  • Just because a certain play or issue doesn't go favorably your way doesn't give you the right to act outrageously snobby or mean towards them. Just accept it the way the call is made and move on. *Look up some more examples for this.
• congratulate your opponents

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• brawl erupted during a Mission Viejo-Capistrano Valley boys' basketball game

  • Specific example of un-sportmanship-like conduct. This could help with describing sportsmanship by saying what the term excludes. Another way to define it.
• begins when administrators hire coaches and give them the standards of sportsmanship.

  • Main point about sportsmanship being taught. Ties into the next point highlighted about sportsmanship being learned "long before the contest".
• The principles of sportsmanship begin long before the contest begins,

  • Specific example--quote about sportsmanship and how it actually begins before any game or contest is started. Sportsmanship values come prior to that game, but exhibiting the principle comes from within and can be "spur of the moment".

• "conscience of educational athletics."

  "Usually the coaches and athletic directors politely applaud while school board members and superintendents stand and cheer,"

  • Specific example of people acting with good sportsmanship. Also, the part about sportsmanship being the "conscience of edu. athletics" is a good base point I could use in one of my arguments that sportsmanship exists strongly in sports (and has originated from them).
• conscience of educational athletics.

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