Tag Archives: sportsmanship

September 28, 2011

Ethics Hero: Yankees Manager Joe Girardi

Joe Girardi and the New York Yankees give a lesson in integrity and sportsmanship Continue reading →

Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Ethics Heroes, Leadership, Sports

Tagged as baseball, competition, ethics, integrity, Joe Girardi, New York Yankees, sportsmanship, Tampa Bay Rays

August 14, 2011

Would Dennis Rodman Qualify for the Baseball Hall of Fame?

Why should a sport care about matters like integrity and character? Isn’t it the performance that counts, and winning? Would a theoretical Dennis Rodman, baseball great, get into the Hall of Fame if his baseball career tracked with how the real Rodman performed in the NBA? Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Etiquette and manners, Journalism & Media, Leadership, Popular Culture, Professions, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as baseball, character, Dennis Rodman, heroes, integrity, L, National Basketball Association, National Football League, Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, role model, sportsmanship, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, violence

July 11, 2011

Now THAT’s Bad Sportsmanship!

The loser in a martial arts match hadn’t quite mastered the traditional respect for opponents. Continue reading →

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Filed under Etiquette and manners, Law & Law Enforcement, Sports

Tagged as assault, ethics, Florida, sportsmanship, taekwondo, violence

June 15, 2011

Andy Murray, Tennis Corrupter

There are larger consequences of celebrating incivility in sports, because who we idolize and celebrate have disproportionate influence over society’s evolving values. A society that cheers jerks will, sooner or later, become a society of jerks. Continue reading →

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Filed under Around the World, Arts & Entertainment, Etiquette and manners, Journalism & Media, Popular Culture, Sports, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as Allan Grayson, Andy Murray, Ann Coulter, baseball, basketball, civility, corruption, culture, Ed Schultz, ethics corrupters, golf, humiliation, jerks, LeBron James, Michael Savage, respect, showboating, sportsmanship, taunting, tennis, trick shots

May 31, 2011

Ethics Train Wreck at the French Open: The Saga of the Over-Eager Ballboy

John McEnroe slams a French Open player for not being an exemplary sportsman. Wait…WHAT? Continue reading →

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Filed under Around the World, Arts & Entertainment, Sports

Tagged as Andy Murray, ballboys, competence, diligence, ethics, Ethics Train Wreck, fairness, French Open, gall, grace, hypocrisy, jerks, John McEnroe, referee mistakes, sportsmanship, tennis, tradition, Viktor Troicki

April 13, 2011

The Bonds Verdict: Fair Enough

Most objective observers knew what Barry Bonds was, but this verdict makes it official. Continue reading →

Manny Post Script: The Signature of a Jerk

Ramirez quit without telling his team, his coaches or his manager, without a statement to the Tampa Bay fans, and without saying the one thing that any decent human being in his situation has an absolute obligation to say. Continue reading →

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Filed under Etiquette and manners, Sports, Workplace

Tagged as apologies, baseball, betrayal, character, cheating, ethics, fans, forgiveness, honesty, jerks, kindness, Los Angeles Dodgers, loyalty, Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball drug policies, malinguering, Manny Ramirez, respect, selfishness, shame, sportsmanship, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, The Star Syndrome

April 8, 2011

Manny Ramirez’s Perfect Exit

Manny Ramirez was an impressively talented baseball player with discipline of an untrained Irish Setter, and the selfishness of a six-year-old. Throughout his career, he was a textbook example of the management fallacy known as the star principle, in which an extremely talented individual is allowed to break the rules and defy an organization’s culture in direct proportion to his perceived value. Now, caught for a second time using banned drugs, he quit rather than face the music. Perfect. Continue reading →

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Tagged as baseball, betrayal, Boston Red Sox, character, cheating, ethics, fans, forgiveness, honesty, kindness, Los Angeles Dodgers, loyalty, Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball drug policies, malinguering, Manny Ramirez, respect, selfishness, shame, sportsmanship, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, The Star Syndrome