Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] My take is for favorite sport is...
From: "Doug Lee" <drlee9@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:35:22 -0400
References: <a8.d906ccd.2a4b6189@aol.com>

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
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