Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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