Sportsmanship Case Study
Leah Coffey

Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship is treating every player and team with the same respect you want to be given, the golden rule.
Cheating, faking and injury, or intentionally fouling is disgraceful to the sport. If you don’t want another team doing it
to you, then you shouldn’t be doing it to the other team. Sportsmanship is respecting your opponents and maintain
poise and perspective of the game itself.

Ethics and Owners
Coaches and owners have a responsibility to put forth their best foot and make sure
their teams and players are doing the same. They have to be ready to take action and
responsibility if something goes wrong as well as set examples for not only their own
players but for the little kids all over watching them.

Ethics and Owners
An example of coaches and owners is the Boston Red Sox. They have supported the Jimmy Fund, which
raises money to fight cancer. While supporting the fund, in a way to bring awareness to the cause they
have a Jimmy Fund Captain They find time to help no matter their schedules. They use their popularity
and audience to help a cause that affects thousands of people every year. In addition to raising
awareness they have also presented awards yearly to others who have been fighting alongside them.
These awards promotes sportsmanship and good conduct by encouraging others to help and fight the
cause with them.

Health and Safety
Health and safety in sports is extremely important. Sports have lots of physical contact
and if players aren’t careful and respectful someone can seriously get hurt. There are
games where players are getting chippy and mad, and everyone watching knows that it
could turn bad at any second. In games like that, you can always catch someone saying
“someone is going to get hurt”. If players can’t respectfully play, they shouldn’t be in
the game. Playing sports is a responsibility that the players have to take on. They
cannot just go out without thinking, they have to be careful while also playing their
best.

Health and Safety
Steroids are a huge issue in professional sports. Athletes take them to become the best
version of themselves, even if it is inhumane and unethical.Athletes think that by
taking steroids, they can get an advantage over their opponents. They are not wrong
but it doesn’t come without dangers. Steroids cause athletes to be able to do tasks that
a human should be able to do. Steroids messes with your hormones and body
regulations. It can cause physiological and emotional damage to the athlete, as well as
even been seen as a cause for liver damage. Steroids hurt both the integrity of the game
and the athlete themselves.

Athletes and Community
Professional athletes have a responsibility to their fans and community. They need to make
sure they set good examples because people all over, even young kids are watching. They
are allowed to make mistakes, but what they do after is what matters. Not everyone is
perfect so it would be unfair to put a perfect standard on professional athletes. They need to
realize that the community, especially younger kids, look up to them. They can’t play
unfairly, cheat, or act rudely to opponents because they will always have eyes on them and
people who follow them. If kids see their favorite players being unsportsmanlike, they will
think it’s okay to do the same.

Athletes and Community
Athletes also need to understand their own position. Being in professional sports
especially means they have the power and most likely the wealth to do good. They
need to use their platform for the greater good of the community. With their
popularity they can make a positive impact on the communities, whether that’s just
promoting a positive message or bringing awareness to a cause.

Fan Behavior
Being a professional athlete or even a high school athlete comes with a lot of
responsibility, but fans have a responsibility as well. Fans need to be able to cheer on
their team while also being respectful to the other team. Fans need to watch what they
say and do because it could hurt someone on the other team. You never know what
someone is going through, so if you are constantly harassing someone from the other
team to be “funny” it could be doing a lot of damage to that person, even if it doesn’t
look like it. Fans can heckle a little but they can’t cross the line in a way that could hurt
another person.

Conclusion
The future in sports should be used as entertainment, while also progressing in
sportsmanship. As the years go on, there is more and more problems with the society
and our earth. Athletes need to be able to stick together, no matter what team, in order
to bring good to the communities and promote positive messages. They need to be able
to treat each other respectfully while they play and when they aren’t in order to set
good examples for young kids watching. This generation is a generation where social
media and television is evident so more and more people can watch games that in past
generations they might not have had the option to. More people are watching, which
puts an even bigger responsibility on these athletes to set good examples.

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