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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Sportsmanship

Sports

High school wrestler does the right thing even though it made him ‘look like a weakling’

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 22, 2019, 7:14 AM Jan 22, 2019

Mark Bush would have had an easy win in a wrestling tournament in New York if he’d finished off an injured opponent. But he didn’t want to win that way. So he lost instead. Read more →

Education · Sports

In face of abuse by parents, refs give up

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 10, 2019, 7:10 AM Jan 10, 2019
26

Given the grief that parents at youth games give officials on behalf of their little charges, why would anyone want to be a referee or umpire anymore? In Wisconsin, as elsewhere, they don’t. Read more →

Sports

West Fargo hockey team delivers flowers to an opponent

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 2, 2018, 5:07 PM Dec 2, 2018
3

Flowers and hockey generally don’t go hand in hand. But the times demanded it for the West Fargo Sheyenne Mustang hockey team, which made a stop on the way to their game against the Red River Roughriders. Read more →

Arts & Culture · Sports

After band’s bus crashes, rival team band learns fight song in time for game

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 24, 2018, 8:16 AM Nov 24, 2018
2

The University of Washington and Washington State University played their big rivalry game Friday, but the UW band couldn’t make it to the game. One of the the three busses carrying the band overturned on a highway on the way to the game in Pullman and the band canceled the trip. Read more →

Sports

Devastating wildfire can’t stop the sportsmanship of cross-country kids

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 14, 2018, 3:26 PM Nov 14, 2018
2

I have long maintained on these pages that if you want to see sportsmanship in high school sports, the cross-country kids are your best bet. So give it up to the cross-country kids at Chico (Calif.) High School for proving me right.
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Sports

Adults to kids: ‘There’s no fun in baseball’

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 9, 2018, 2:33 PM Aug 9, 2018
10

It’s Little League World Series season, the annual exercise in which kids provide regular lessons on sportsmanship to adults who don’t get it.
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Sports

Northfield baseball team honored for reporting its own violation in tournament

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 26, 2018, 10:24 AM Jul 26, 2018
5

In a tournament in Owatonna in June, one of the team’s pitchers had gone over his allotted pitch count. Nobody noticed.
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Education · Sports

High school golfer admits mistake that cost her championship

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 6, 2018, 8:25 AM Jun 6, 2018
23

All Sioux Falls Christian senior Kate Wynja had to do yesterday to win the second round of the Class A state golf meet and her second high school championship was stay quiet.
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Sports

At Boston Marathon, a display of sportsmanship

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 16, 2018, 11:47 AM Apr 16, 2018
7

Every year we learn something knew about the world of marathons.

This year we learned that runners make pit stops, as Shalane Flanagan did today at the Boston Marathon. Read more →

Education · Sports

After a basketball team loses, sportsmanship wins

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 23, 2018, 8:23 AM Mar 23, 2018
4

Fargo Oak Grove junior guard Tommy Conmy packed bottles of sparkling cider to celebrate after his team’s North Dakota Class B, Region 1 boys basketball title game. It was a good plan; the school has won six of the last nine championships.

His team lost; so he gave it to his rivals. Read more →

Sports

Iowa player misses free throw because ‘life is bigger than basketball’

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 26, 2018, 8:10 AM Feb 26, 2018
4

Jordan Bohannon, Iowa’s sophomore guard, went to the free-throw line with a chance to erase Chris Street’s name from the team record books. All he had to do was make a free throw. No big deal; he’d already made 34 in a row. Thirty-five would’ve given him the new record. He didn’t want the new record. Read more →

Sports

High school girl beats all the boys, still doesn’t win golf tournament

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 26, 2017, 12:15 PM Oct 26, 2017
11

The rules are the rules and it doesn’t matter if Emily Nash, 16, of Lunenburg, Ma., beat all the boys by four strokes in a high school golf tournament. She doesn’t get the trophy for winning the tournament, nor the right to advance to a state tournament for winning the tournament she won, but didn’t. Read more →

Sports

Undermanned MN high school team gets a teaching moment

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 13, 2017, 6:20 AM Feb 13, 2017
2

Ogilvie, Minn., (pop. 361) has the same problem a lot of small school districts have when it comes to high school sports. There just aren’t enough kids to field competitive teams. Read more →

Sports

At cross-country meet, winning is secondary to sportsmanship

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2016, 9:15 AM Nov 30, 2016
4

KARE 11’s Boyd Huppert confirmed anew a long-held personal observation I’ve had over the years of watching high school sports. If there’s an act of sportsmanship, it probably comes from the track-and-field kids, and it probably involves a female athlete.
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Education · Sports

In display of sportsmanship, ‘The Mayor’ gets his TD

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 25, 2016, 12:22 PM Nov 25, 2016
11

One of the most impressive aspects of this collaboration between high school coaches to allow a young man to get the thrill of scoring a touchdown in a football game yesterday is that the game was early and close when he did it. Read more →

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