Collin's Sportsmanship Articles
Winning The Sportsmanship Battle, LOAN Newsnet, December 2001, page 2 (National Association Of Sports Officials Publications).
Avoid The Attack: Develop A Battery Plan For Your Association, LOAN Newsnet, February 2001 page 1 (National Association Of Sports Officials Publications).
Can We Put Sportsmanship Back In The Game?, LOAN Newsnet, October 2000 page 1 (National Association Of Sports Officials Publications).
Avoid The Attack: Develop A Battery Plan For Your Association, LOAN Newsnet, February 2001 page 1 (National Association Of Sports Officials Publications).
Can We Put Sportsmanship Back In The Game?, LOAN Newsnet, October 2000 page 1 (National Association Of Sports Officials Publications).
Other Author's Sportsmanship Articles
April 28, 2022 - Ft. Pierce, FL - What does it look like when sportsmanship breaks down? See 12-Year-Old Soccer Near Vero Beach: Relatives Fight On Field; Kid Cusses Out Ref: Opinion. By Lawrence Reisman, Treasure Coast Palm Newspaper.
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April 5, 2016 - Read Shauna Letellier’s call to action in youth sports. Where Character Education Is Undone, Huffington Post, April 5, 2016.
Click Here For Dr. Janet Sasson Edgette's 2014 Article on Sportsmanship: Humiliation Is a Horrible Motivational Tool.
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San Francisco, CA - June 27, 2011 - Columnist Bob Frantz asks, In Youth Sports, When Does Competition Begin?, San Francisco Examiner, June 27, 2011.
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June 22, 2011 - Forbes Magazine Sports Blogger Bob Cook makes a rather uncompelling argument that crazed youth sports parents are actually engaging in a rational economic response to the pressures inherent in youth sports. Oh, Cook goes out of his way to say he's not justifying nutty youth sports parents. Rather, he contends that once a parent concludes that sports is the way out, that conclusion logically leads to a host of unsavory behavior. Sounds like Cook is trying to apply economics where it doesn't apply. Anybody who works in youth sports can tell you that nutty parents go nutty even when they're so rich that their kid doesn't need a scholarship. They go nuts in 3rd grade basketball games where no score is kept, and even if there was the kids are too small to score anyway. They go nuts when they've made no investment in their kid's sports development and the kid is playing for one of the worst teams in town. Sounds like Cook needs to get out and see some games, and put away the economic textbooks. Just because you write for Forbes doesn't mean you have to try to apply economics to everything. Cook's work is some of the worst intellectual work on sports I've seen in a long time, which is too bad because he's generally a pretty sharp guy. Anyway, don't take my word for it. See for yourself by reading, Irrational Parents Are A Rational Economic Response To Youth Sports: The Bob Cook Your Kid's Not Going Pro Blog, June 22, 2011, Forbes.com.
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May 11, 2011 - Freelance writer and youth sports parent Linda Flanagan comments on poor sportsmanship in youth sports in, Adults Behaving Badly, Huffington Post, Living Section, May 11, 2011.
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Sacramento, CA - March 15, 2011. Think Nobody’s Watching? The Sacramento Bee is, and they’re seeing the best and worst of sportsmanship in California’s Basketball Playoffs. SeeHometown Report: Good Sports – and bad – On Full Display In High School Basketball Playoffs by Joe Davidson, Sacramento Bee, March 15, 2011. Poor sportsmanship is bad, but remember these are only games. It's not like it's war or something, right? Well, not necessarily so. Poor sportsmanship has helped trigger a war so ugly that it became known as the "Football War." The 1969 El Salvador/Honduras FIFA qualifying soccer series was marked by heavy fan violence and rioting at the contest sites. The soccer matches were closely followed by a brief border war. The war may have been brief, but the disruption in trade between the two countries, combined with over 300,000 refugees and a disruption in the Central American Common Market set the stage for the El Salvadoran Civil War, and contributed to over two decades of economic disruption. Was the poor sportsmanship the cause of this war or just something that happened at the same time as the tensions that led to the war? Well, we'll never know. But the poor sportsmanship sure didn't help, and it ultimately led this war to be forever known as "The Football War." Click here for more details.
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Sports does a tremendous amount of good. However, it does have the capacity to do harm. Newsweek shows diplomatic tension and even a war caused by poor sportsmanship. See Fool’s Gold by Christopher Hitchens, Newsweek, February 15, 2010, page 46.
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The Pressure to Cheat - Commentary by Michael Josephson, The CIF News, September 2009, page 1.
Follow this link for Rick Telander's "On Youth Sports" Column in the Positive Coaching Alliances, Spring 2008 Momentum Magazine - at page 2 - describing just how easy it is for a parent to lose it:
Putting Civility and Sportsmanship Back In Game, If Not In The Stands by Ray Glier, New York Times, February 22, 2008 (examining college spectator conduct).
2-4-6-Hate by Tom Owens, Teaching Tolerance Magazine, Fall 2006, Page 23. Tom Owns Examines How Our Schools Handle Offensive Cheers.
Click Here For The American Association of School Administrators' June 2006 magazine, featuring numerous articles exploring athletics and academics, eligibility, sportsmanship, and steroids in high school sports. (See The School Administrator, June 2006, Number 6, Vol. 63 published by the American Association of School Administrators). You can also click on the following individual articles: Righting the Balance In The Athletics-Academics Equation by Kate Beem; Athletic Eligibility: Struggling To Raise The Bar by Paul Riede; Sports at Any Cost by Kimberly Reeves; Targeting Sportsmanship by Linda Chion Kenney; Steroids: To Test Or To Educate? by Scott LaFee
Can Good Sportsmanship Be Legislated by Dale Frost Stillman on The New Jersey State Bar Foundation's website. Note: This website contains a wealth of information about sportsmanship efforts in New Jersey:
Child's Play No More: The Pressure On Kids and Coaches In Youth Leagues Has Reached a Level That Would Be Laughable If It Weren't So Destructive by C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle, December 10, 2000 page D-1.
Emphasizing Sportsmanship In Youth Sports by Lori Gano-Overway, Education World, 1999, reprinting article originally published in Spotlight on Youth Sports - a publication of the Institute For The Study Of Youth Sports.
Good Sportsmanship Is Losing Out To Winning - Bill Walton's USA Today Editorial of Dec. 20, 2005
Self-Control And Sportsmanship: How Sports and Recreation Can Improve Society by Mitch Lyons, Recreation Management Magazine, September 2007.
Brevard County, FL. January 31, 2007 - It's Called Sportsmanship: Parents Must Set Example At School Athletic Events, by Mark Smith, Guest Columnist, Florida Today (Mr. Smith was kind enough to send me his guest column and share this important message).
New Rules for Soccer Parents: 1) No Yelling. 2) No Hitting Ref by Edward Wong, New York Times, May 6, 2001.
Out of Control by William Nack and Lester Munson, Sports Illustrated, July 24, 2000 page 86 (are today's parents out of control - read this article)..
November 18, 2005 - Parents - Are Your Kids Proud of You? by Mike McQueen, WrestlingGear.com (good article on spectator conduct and spectator abuse of officials).
Parents, Coaches Who Need Time-Outs by Regan McMahon, San Francisco Chronicle, November 5, 2006 page E2.
Poor Sportsmanship: Other Factors Leads To Southern California Officials Shortage. Unanswered Calls, Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2006 by Peter Yoon.
Click Here: Positive Coaching Alliance Lists Bottom 10 Acts of 2006
Click Here For the Autumn 2007 Issue of the Positive Coaching Alliance's Momentum Magazine, featuring Robert Lipsyte guest authoring the On Youth Sports Column. Lipsyte examines parents, coaches, and today's ethical climate in youth sports.
Teaching Respect, by Dr. David Hoch, Athletic Management October/November 2006. This article provides valuable advice on increasing sportsmanship from the Athletic Director of Loch Raven High School in Baltimore County, MD.
When Parents Take Their Child's Sports Participation Beyond Reason, Commentary: by Wayne Dominowski, Athletic Insight: The Online Journal of Sport Psychology, Volume 3, Issue 3, 2001.
When Winning Is The Only Thing, Can Violence Be Far Away? by the Canadian Centres For Teaching Peace.
Who's Killing Kids' Sports?, Parade Magazine, August 7, 2005 by David Oliver Relin
Winning Through Losing
Just because your team may not be victorious, doesn't mean your players are not winners. Check out this article titled 0-19: Winning Through Losing from Coach's Quarterly Magazine about the educational values gained through losing.
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April 5, 2016 - Read Shauna Letellier’s call to action in youth sports. Where Character Education Is Undone, Huffington Post, April 5, 2016.
Click Here For Dr. Janet Sasson Edgette's 2014 Article on Sportsmanship: Humiliation Is a Horrible Motivational Tool.
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San Francisco, CA - June 27, 2011 - Columnist Bob Frantz asks, In Youth Sports, When Does Competition Begin?, San Francisco Examiner, June 27, 2011.
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June 22, 2011 - Forbes Magazine Sports Blogger Bob Cook makes a rather uncompelling argument that crazed youth sports parents are actually engaging in a rational economic response to the pressures inherent in youth sports. Oh, Cook goes out of his way to say he's not justifying nutty youth sports parents. Rather, he contends that once a parent concludes that sports is the way out, that conclusion logically leads to a host of unsavory behavior. Sounds like Cook is trying to apply economics where it doesn't apply. Anybody who works in youth sports can tell you that nutty parents go nutty even when they're so rich that their kid doesn't need a scholarship. They go nuts in 3rd grade basketball games where no score is kept, and even if there was the kids are too small to score anyway. They go nuts when they've made no investment in their kid's sports development and the kid is playing for one of the worst teams in town. Sounds like Cook needs to get out and see some games, and put away the economic textbooks. Just because you write for Forbes doesn't mean you have to try to apply economics to everything. Cook's work is some of the worst intellectual work on sports I've seen in a long time, which is too bad because he's generally a pretty sharp guy. Anyway, don't take my word for it. See for yourself by reading, Irrational Parents Are A Rational Economic Response To Youth Sports: The Bob Cook Your Kid's Not Going Pro Blog, June 22, 2011, Forbes.com.
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May 11, 2011 - Freelance writer and youth sports parent Linda Flanagan comments on poor sportsmanship in youth sports in, Adults Behaving Badly, Huffington Post, Living Section, May 11, 2011.
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Sacramento, CA - March 15, 2011. Think Nobody’s Watching? The Sacramento Bee is, and they’re seeing the best and worst of sportsmanship in California’s Basketball Playoffs. SeeHometown Report: Good Sports – and bad – On Full Display In High School Basketball Playoffs by Joe Davidson, Sacramento Bee, March 15, 2011. Poor sportsmanship is bad, but remember these are only games. It's not like it's war or something, right? Well, not necessarily so. Poor sportsmanship has helped trigger a war so ugly that it became known as the "Football War." The 1969 El Salvador/Honduras FIFA qualifying soccer series was marked by heavy fan violence and rioting at the contest sites. The soccer matches were closely followed by a brief border war. The war may have been brief, but the disruption in trade between the two countries, combined with over 300,000 refugees and a disruption in the Central American Common Market set the stage for the El Salvadoran Civil War, and contributed to over two decades of economic disruption. Was the poor sportsmanship the cause of this war or just something that happened at the same time as the tensions that led to the war? Well, we'll never know. But the poor sportsmanship sure didn't help, and it ultimately led this war to be forever known as "The Football War." Click here for more details.
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Sports does a tremendous amount of good. However, it does have the capacity to do harm. Newsweek shows diplomatic tension and even a war caused by poor sportsmanship. See Fool’s Gold by Christopher Hitchens, Newsweek, February 15, 2010, page 46.
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The Pressure to Cheat - Commentary by Michael Josephson, The CIF News, September 2009, page 1.
Follow this link for Rick Telander's "On Youth Sports" Column in the Positive Coaching Alliances, Spring 2008 Momentum Magazine - at page 2 - describing just how easy it is for a parent to lose it:
Putting Civility and Sportsmanship Back In Game, If Not In The Stands by Ray Glier, New York Times, February 22, 2008 (examining college spectator conduct).
2-4-6-Hate by Tom Owens, Teaching Tolerance Magazine, Fall 2006, Page 23. Tom Owns Examines How Our Schools Handle Offensive Cheers.
Click Here For The American Association of School Administrators' June 2006 magazine, featuring numerous articles exploring athletics and academics, eligibility, sportsmanship, and steroids in high school sports. (See The School Administrator, June 2006, Number 6, Vol. 63 published by the American Association of School Administrators). You can also click on the following individual articles: Righting the Balance In The Athletics-Academics Equation by Kate Beem; Athletic Eligibility: Struggling To Raise The Bar by Paul Riede; Sports at Any Cost by Kimberly Reeves; Targeting Sportsmanship by Linda Chion Kenney; Steroids: To Test Or To Educate? by Scott LaFee
Can Good Sportsmanship Be Legislated by Dale Frost Stillman on The New Jersey State Bar Foundation's website. Note: This website contains a wealth of information about sportsmanship efforts in New Jersey:
Child's Play No More: The Pressure On Kids and Coaches In Youth Leagues Has Reached a Level That Would Be Laughable If It Weren't So Destructive by C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle, December 10, 2000 page D-1.
Emphasizing Sportsmanship In Youth Sports by Lori Gano-Overway, Education World, 1999, reprinting article originally published in Spotlight on Youth Sports - a publication of the Institute For The Study Of Youth Sports.
Good Sportsmanship Is Losing Out To Winning - Bill Walton's USA Today Editorial of Dec. 20, 2005
Self-Control And Sportsmanship: How Sports and Recreation Can Improve Society by Mitch Lyons, Recreation Management Magazine, September 2007.
Brevard County, FL. January 31, 2007 - It's Called Sportsmanship: Parents Must Set Example At School Athletic Events, by Mark Smith, Guest Columnist, Florida Today (Mr. Smith was kind enough to send me his guest column and share this important message).
New Rules for Soccer Parents: 1) No Yelling. 2) No Hitting Ref by Edward Wong, New York Times, May 6, 2001.
Out of Control by William Nack and Lester Munson, Sports Illustrated, July 24, 2000 page 86 (are today's parents out of control - read this article)..
November 18, 2005 - Parents - Are Your Kids Proud of You? by Mike McQueen, WrestlingGear.com (good article on spectator conduct and spectator abuse of officials).
Parents, Coaches Who Need Time-Outs by Regan McMahon, San Francisco Chronicle, November 5, 2006 page E2.
Poor Sportsmanship: Other Factors Leads To Southern California Officials Shortage. Unanswered Calls, Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2006 by Peter Yoon.
Click Here: Positive Coaching Alliance Lists Bottom 10 Acts of 2006
Click Here For the Autumn 2007 Issue of the Positive Coaching Alliance's Momentum Magazine, featuring Robert Lipsyte guest authoring the On Youth Sports Column. Lipsyte examines parents, coaches, and today's ethical climate in youth sports.
Teaching Respect, by Dr. David Hoch, Athletic Management October/November 2006. This article provides valuable advice on increasing sportsmanship from the Athletic Director of Loch Raven High School in Baltimore County, MD.
When Parents Take Their Child's Sports Participation Beyond Reason, Commentary: by Wayne Dominowski, Athletic Insight: The Online Journal of Sport Psychology, Volume 3, Issue 3, 2001.
When Winning Is The Only Thing, Can Violence Be Far Away? by the Canadian Centres For Teaching Peace.
Who's Killing Kids' Sports?, Parade Magazine, August 7, 2005 by David Oliver Relin
Winning Through Losing
Just because your team may not be victorious, doesn't mean your players are not winners. Check out this article titled 0-19: Winning Through Losing from Coach's Quarterly Magazine about the educational values gained through losing.
Books on Sportsmanship
What's Wrong With Youth Sports? ESPN's Farrey Chimes In With His Brand New Book (it was released May 6, 2008), Game On: The All American Race To Make Champions of Our Children. Click here for the early feedback.
Learning Culture Through Sports: Exploring the Role of Sports In Society, edited by Sandra Prettyman (Rowman & Littlefield Education Press 2006).
Click here for an excerpt from Donald W. Albertson's Catch A Rising Star: The Adult Game of Youth Sports, Turnkey Press 2006.
Click here for an excerpt from Bruce Svare's Crisis on Our Playing Fields: What Everyone Should Know About Our Out of Control Sports Culture and What We Can Do to Change It, Sports Reform Press 2004.
Click here for an excerpt from Rick Wolff's The Sports Parenting Edge: The Winning Edge: The Winning Game Plan for Every Athlete-from T-Ball to College Recruiting, Pond Lake Productions 2003.
Click here for an excerpt from George Selleck's Raising A Good Sport In an In-Your-Face World, McGraw-Hill 2002.
Learning Culture Through Sports: Exploring the Role of Sports In Society, edited by Sandra Prettyman (Rowman & Littlefield Education Press 2006).
Click here for an excerpt from Donald W. Albertson's Catch A Rising Star: The Adult Game of Youth Sports, Turnkey Press 2006.
Click here for an excerpt from Bruce Svare's Crisis on Our Playing Fields: What Everyone Should Know About Our Out of Control Sports Culture and What We Can Do to Change It, Sports Reform Press 2004.
Click here for an excerpt from Rick Wolff's The Sports Parenting Edge: The Winning Edge: The Winning Game Plan for Every Athlete-from T-Ball to College Recruiting, Pond Lake Productions 2003.
Click here for an excerpt from George Selleck's Raising A Good Sport In an In-Your-Face World, McGraw-Hill 2002.
Videos on Sportsmanship
In Michigan, the officials are the Caretakers of the Games - MHSAA Officials.
Click Here for What Kids Wish Their Parents Knew About Sportsmanship.
Click Here for What Kids Wish Their Parents Knew About Sportsmanship.
