Poor sportmanship of the year?

[Frankie's Market]

Re: Poor sportmanship of the year?

You have your viewpoints - I'm entitled to mine. I won't argue with you.

But of course.

Hmmmm. Just hope you realize that my response of "YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!" wasn't an expression of disagreement with anything you said. It was simply a reference to,..... Ah! Just watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQ_Ja02gTY

[anapuni808]

Re: Poor sportmanship of the year?

You have your viewpoints - I'm entitled to mine. I won't argue with you.

[Frankie's Market]

Re: Poor sportmanship of the year?

McEnroe was penalized many, many times for his actions on the courts and was also a poor sport many, many times. Serren's actions were no different than his. and she got fined and lost the chance for another championship. I would say that is fair.

"YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!!!"

What's truly unfair to Cljisters is the way she made her way into the finals. Should she win, her victory will forever be associated with the manner in which she won her semi match. Would she have even won, should the match have been played out to the end? It will certainly put a question mark on any victory in the finals - and through no fault of hers. The confusion on her face yesterday and her interview made me truly feel sorry for her.

Serena's DQ will be the topic of heavy discussion for the next few days, to be sure. But in the long run, there won't be any asterisk attached to the results of the '09 US Open. Bad calls are a part of the game. If a competitor can't keep a level head and constructively deal with bad calls that come their way, then they won't emerge as the winner, no matter everything else they do right.

In any sport, verbal abuse of officials is simply not an acceptable option.

[Mike_Lowery]

Re: Poor sportmanship of the year?

Serena Williams is representing herself and the United States. There are a lot of international tennis players, so the audience is worldwide. She can't be the American bully.

Oh. McEnroe must have played against only Americans.

[Walkoff Balk]

Re: Poor sportmanship of the year?

Why is this a big deal, and McEnroe's outbursts get a free pass?

Serena Williams is representing herself and the United States. There are a lot of international tennis players, so the audience is worldwide. She can't be the American bully.

[anapuni808]

Re: Poor sportmanship of the year?

Let me clear here - I like Serena Williams and usually root for her. As I was doing yesterday. It was a bad call - her foot didn't appear to be on the line. But...Serena was way out of line in her behaviour. She approached the line judge (a small Asian woman), pointing with her racquet in a threatening manner and apparently dropping quite a few F bombs while she was yelling. If she then also threatened to shove a ball down the judges throat - well, that was uncalled for and definitely poor sportsmanship. Plus the fact that Serena IS a big girl, and certainly much bigger than the judge! I was shocked watching it all on TV - I can only imagine how the judge felt.

McEnroe was penalized many, many times for his actions on the courts and was also a poor sport many, many times. Serren's actions were no different than his. and she got fined and lost the chance for another championship. I would say that is fair.

What's truly unfair to Cljisters is the way she made her way into the finals. Should she win, her victory will forever be associated with the manner in which she won her semi match. Would she have even won, should the match have been played out to the end? It will certainly put a question mark on any victory in the finals - and through no fault of hers. The confusion on her face yesterday and her interview made me truly feel sorry for her.

[Mike_Lowery]

Re: Poor sportmanship of the year?

http://msn.foxsports.com/tennis/stor...atch?GT1=39002

Big girls don't cry.

Why is this a big deal, and McEnroe's outbursts get a free pass?

[Walkoff Balk]

Re: Poor sportmanship of the year?

http://msn.foxsports.com/tennis/stor...atch?GT1=39002

Big girls don't cry.

[StinkyTheGrump]

Re: No to excuse the assault but...

This is a tough one. The Boise State player in all likelihood did not expect to get punched (being in a football game with the obvious consequences) so one could consider this punch a sucker punch. Of course in the vast majority of other circumstances talking trash in the heat of the moment is likely to lead to exactly what happened.
I will say then that this was a cowardly act by the Boise State player (because he thought he could talk trash and actually touch the guy with impunity because of special circumstances i.e. he wouldn't try that in a dance club and turn away 1 second later). Also agree that Blount got the punishment he deserves.

[Frankie's Market]

Re: Yes, really...

2) Not out of thin air. That's how I grew up, probably long before you popped onto the scene, and before there was a dictionary deffinition.

If you want to talk about your homemade definition, then fine. It's cool. But don't tell other people they're wrong, just because it doesn't match up with the peculiar definition you've grown up with.

You didn't mouth off without expecting a serious reply. The kid blew it, plain and simple. He should have been more aware, especially while not having his helmet on. That was dumb.

You say that Boise St.'s Byron Hout was mouthing off? Here are a few pertinent facts that I will add to the discussion:

1) It was Oregon's LeGarrette Blount who told Sports Illustrated a month ago that the Ducks "owe that team (Boise St.) an a** whuppin."

http://www.idahostatesman.com/124/st...k=omni_popular

Now, SI is not some picayune press. If you're going to trash-talk another team in print, then doing so in SI magazine is just about the biggest platform that you can find. If Blout is going to mouth off in SI, he can't go around and think that the BSU players are going to be unaware of what he said before the game. And he can't count on the idea that the Broncos are going to forget what he said after the game either. Hey, if you're going to engage in pregame trash talk, then you can't turn around and get sore at someone who makes you eat your words after you get your butt handed to you on the field. The idea that Blount was the target of unprovoked postgame trash talk from the Broncos is baloney.

2) Not only did Oregon lose to Boise St., but Blount personally turned in a miserable performance. The Boise defensive line (a squad that includes Byron Hunt) thoroughly owned Blount the entire day, holding him to NEGATIVE 5 rushing yards. Instead of LeGarrette Blount giving the Broncos an a** whuppin, it was the other way around. And Blount, the poor baby, didn't like that. Awwwww!!!!!!!

3) I don't care where anyone grew up or what school of hard knocks they came from. A real man doesn't win his fist fights by false-crackin' the other guy..... and then high-tailing it out of there. Of course, that's my personal homegrown definition of what a real man is. Everyone else is entitled to their personal definition, even if their vision of a "real man" comes perilously close to my definition of a yellow belly coward.

[Walkoff Balk]

Re: No to excuse the assault but...

That wasn't a sucker punch.

Sucker punch or False crack?
I think he was mad at the Healthcare proposal.

[Ron Whitfield]

Re: Yes, really...

!) But hey, if this kind of cowardly behavior is something you're going to defend, then so be it.
2) Now, if you want to start making up your own definitions out of thin air, then go ahead and knock yourself out.

1) I've stated that I don't excuse the assault. So don't try to sucker punch me with that BS, OK?
2) Not out of thin air. That's how I grew up, probably long before you popped onto the scene, and before there was a dictionary deffinition. You didn't mouth off without expecting a serious reply. The kid blew it, plain and simple. He should have been more aware, especially while not having his helmet on. That was dumb.

BTW, the punch was merely a glancing rabbit punch of a chip shot. The perp could have easily laid into it and broke his jaw with the angle he had.

And, the guy got the penalty he deserved.

[Fat Jeff]

Re: Poor sportmanship of the year?

Sucker punch or not...that was one of the most cowardly things I've seen in a long time. He got suspended for the season, but will practice with the team and stay on scholarship. Could be much harsher, but I think being so close but not being able to suit up on game day will drive him nuts.

[LikaNui]

Re: Poor sportmanship of the year?

The player who threw the punch yesterday was just suspended for the rest of the season by his university.

[scrivener]

Re: Poor sportmanship of the year?

You'd think these people would be very grateful for playing the game they love for a living.

He's not playing it for a living.

That wasn't a sucker punch.

I won't go so far as to say "that's what a guy gets," but when I saw the footage, my first reaction was, "Hm. I'm not sure that's a sucker punch." The two were obviously jawing at each other and one wasn't looking when he got the hit, but it wasn't like the other guy just ran up to him from across the field and decked him. He got the hit as part of that confrontation.

In any case, none of that changes the fact that it was poor sportsmanship of the most extreme sort. Boise proved it belongs in the conversation about mid-majors deserving a realistic shot at the BCS.