"If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching. "
-- Bob Ley, ESPN sportscaster
Watching the Super Bowl on Sunday really put on a show of good character on both team. It seemed the game went so fast and then I realized there were no fouls to speak of. Each team played a good hard game and the team that wanted it the most came out the victor. It was really unfortunate for Belichick that the whole world witnessed the only unsportsmanlike conduct in the game as he walked off the field with a second to play in the game. Winning with pride and losing with graciousness is what the "game" is all about.
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Love all this positive talk about conduct of parents, coaches an teachers...but it is just that: "Talk" The conduct of players on the BMS Basketball teams is appalling, always has been, and no on eseems to really care. How about ditching the 'Warm Fuzzies" and teaching these boys real character? This is not directed at Basalt Rec, but at the lax, flacid attitudes in many athletics around here that hinder the development of real character.
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