What is Sports?

[Sister]

What does it mean to be a good sportsman?

Anyone see the news today showing that display of good sportsmanship in Detroit?

Anyone listen to the media concerning the risk of taking your family to watch a game? The lanquage has been a concern for a long while, now we have to be concerned that violence can break out???? Is anyone out there who believes our sports are becoming R rated? And....it isn't just the overpaid players, it's the radical fans who have nothing better to do than spout vulgar lanquage, drink booze, and act like idiots.

The behavior is enough to turn off any decent moral person. When these fans quit attending sports events can you imagine what's left?

Our morals in this country are being questioned by many foreign countrys. Wonder why? Anyone see the famous commercial with the towel girl?

It's a shame that sports is becoming a dirty word in America.

[WarblerWatcher]

Originally posted by Sister:

It's a shame that sports is becoming a dirty word in America. It's also ashame that America is becoming a dirty word around the world because of our ever increasing moral decay.

Good post Sister! smile.gif

[7magman]

Sports is athletics in my opinion.Nascar,wrestling(fake),golf(and I play) are not sports.Sorry,but thats how I feel,the only athletic ability on a race track is the pit crew.

[fairweatherhunter]

If sports teams would quit recruting wanna be rappers and street thugs, the sports might improve. Tell them to take off them earrings, jewlery, and do-rags and act like men!

[WarblerWatcher]

Man I agree with that fairweather!!! smile.gif

In my opinion how most professional people at that, or any level, dress and what they dress in tells a lot about their attitude and their character, on and off the field of play!

[ November 20, 2004, 06:06 PM: Message edited by: WarblerWatcher ]

[Bowman]

7Mag,,,golf is a sport, it payed my way through college.. And also is the hardest game I have ever played...Just go to a Public golf course on a saturday and watch the gomers that try to play golf...if you didnt have to be athletic, everyone would be good at it...

[dirtdart]

Yea.... Hope Tiger Woods never tries out for the Pentathalon or Decathalon...... Everybody will just forget about Bruce Jenner.

[WarblerWatcher]

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Sportsman:
a person who shows sportsmanship

Sportsmanship:
conduct becoming to one participating in a sport (as fairness, respect for one's opponent, and graciousness in winning or losing)

Sports:
a source of diversion

Athletics:
exercises, sports, or games engaged in by athletes

Athlete:
a person who is trained or skilled in exercises, sports, or games requiring physical strength, agility, or stamina

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[reflex1]

WW - where'd ya find those leeeeetle pics of Leeeeetle Rattle? :D

[rjet]

Sportsmanship:
conduct becoming to one participating in a sport (as fairness, respect for one's opponent, and graciousness in winning or losing)
Unfortunantly these types of values are not stressed at the youngest ages today. I got a serious belting after being a "bad sport" after a 3rd grade football game on the base. Today I thank my father for that whooping. Saw my neighbors young kids baseball team play a few years back and it was amazing the poor sportsmanship showed by these young people. Yelling and screaming, taunting, throwing fits in the field, throwing mitts and hats. If I or any of my team members would have done that we would have been whooped. Sportsmanship is not considerd part of the sport any more and is a darn shame. Those values trickle down into everyday life as these young-uns grow up. Course I think a lot of the parents at these games need a baseball bat lesson behind the bleachers also.

[Bowman]

Dirtdart, I was not saying that golfers would be great at everything or that they could compete in a Decathalon or Pentathalon...I am just stating that golf is a sport,and it does require stanima,,,how many of those old fat guys who have to swing around their belly's do you think could walk 18 holes, much less 72 holes Thursday thru Sunday....Not Many......