Comments on: Why Are Sports Important?

By: fadwa

fadwa — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:23:17 +0000

i am very interesting of the sports because it’s important to the men and the women

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:59:57 +0000

Sportsmanship is defined as “conduct and attitude considered as befitting participants, including a sense of fair play, courtesy toward teammates and opponents, a striving spirit, and grace in losing.”
The motivation for sport is often an elusive element. For example, beginners in sailing are often told that dinghy racing is a good means to sharpen the learner’s sailing skills. However, it often emerges that skills are honed to increase racing performance and achievements in competition, rather than the converse. Sportsmanship expresses an aspiration or ethos that the activity will be enjoyed for its own sake. The well-known sentiment by sports journalist Grantland Rice, that it’s “not that you won or lost but how you played the game,” and the Modern Olympic creed expressed by its founder Pierre de Coubertin: “The most important thing . . . is not winning but taking part” are typical expressions of this sentiment.
But often the pressures of competition or an obsession with individual achievement—as well as the intrusion of technology—can all work against enjoyment and fair play by participants.
People responsible for leisure activities often seek recognition and respectability as sports by joining sports federations such as the IOC, or by forming their own regulatory body. In this way sports evolve from leisure activity to more formal sports: relatively recent newcomers are BMX cycling, snowboarding, and wrestling. Some of these activities have been popular but uncodified pursuits in various forms for different lengths of time. Indeed, the formal regulation of sport is a relatively modern and increasing development.

By: Grace, T

Grace, T — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:01:40 +0000

If only that was the ruler most measured team sport success with perhaps we would have fewer sad cases at the college and pro level.

By: sillylauralonglegs

sillylauralonglegs — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:39:32 +0000

I wish I could get my daughter to be interested in sports, but she just isn’t. I believe it’s important to be involved in sports because it teaches you to work together as a team, something my daughter needs extra help with since she’s an only child. But she participates in sports “kicking and screaming.” Maybe I need to coach the field hockey team to enhance her interest. Any other suggestions?

By: jf.sellsius

jf.sellsius — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:18:49 +0000

I don’t know how much you follow soccer but nonetheless the Zidane head butt in the finals with Italy has the internet swamped with video of it. If you want a laugh visit our blog for the various mashups of the event. There is also a link to the Sydney Morning Herald which has some You Tube video. from one blogger to another….

http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/?p=1383