http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story ... d=tab1pos1
What a cool idea.
True sportsmanship
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True sportsmanship
posted on Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:23 am
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Re: True sportsmanship
posted on Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:36 pm
That was a good story. Thanks for posting it.
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Re: True sportsmanship
posted on Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:48 pm
That is horrible. Great way to get losers to believe they are somehow empowered.
Competition breeds success. Awarding failure is what got us where we are right now. Fail and you get a prize...
Competition breeds success. Awarding failure is what got us where we are right now. Fail and you get a prize...
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Re: True sportsmanship
posted on Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:41 am
Meh, Rick Reilly continues to be unreadable garbage. No surprise there.
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Re: True sportsmanship
posted on Thu Dec 25, 2008 4:49 pm
MethylONE wrote:That is horrible. Great way to get losers to believe they are somehow empowered.
Competition breeds success. Awarding failure is what got us where we are right now. Fail and you get a prize...
Making people think they have worth is a good way to motivate them and cause self-improvement.
Calling them losers is a good way to make them utterly useless.
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Re: True sportsmanship
posted on Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:13 am
MethylONE wrote:That is horrible. Great way to get losers to believe they are somehow empowered.
Competition breeds success. Awarding failure is what got us where we are right now. Fail and you get a prize...
They aren't awarding failure. They are giving people a vision of the light at the end of the tunnel. They are giving them hope.
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Re: True sportsmanship
posted on Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:09 pm
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
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