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To: Mariebl
Is it really sportsmanlike, though, to treat your opponents as being completely unworthy of your efforts, so that you don't even try to play the game as a game, you simply use the other team as fodder for a practice session? I'm not trying to be nasty here; that's a serious question.

To hold back is bad sportsmanship. The purpose of the game is the playing of the game, not using the playing of the game to make sure the other team doesn't feel too bad about losing or to take a dive so the other team can feel good about winning. If someone's best isn't good enough, losing will demonstrate this to them. I'd hope the parents of the winning team would hire a lawyer on behalf of the coach and show the people who fired him what losing really means.
213 posted on 01/26/2009 7:10:11 PM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan

I completely agree with your above response.
Losing is a very important lesson. I would hate to think what kind of person I would be if I didn’t learn from my loses.


214 posted on 01/26/2009 7:19:55 PM PST by Aurorales
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