This document discusses the role of sportsmanship and ethics in professional sports. It defines sportsmanship as being fair, respecting others, and pushing yourself while also respecting competitors. It argues that owners, coaches, and athletes should model ethical behavior on and off the field to promote fairness, community involvement, and player health and safety. Fans should support teams respectfully without threatening players or acting unethically. While some issues may get worse, the document concludes that the sports community will ultimately learn to behave in a more civil manner.

1. 8.3 Sportsmanship Case Study Visual Presentation:
What role does sportsmanship
and ethical behavior play in
professional sports?
Nick Marrale

2. Into
What does it mean to have sportsmanship.
Integrity? Yes. Fairness? Yes. To have
sportsmanship means to be an exemplary
person within your sporting community.

3. Intro
• Sportsmanship: A quality athletes and competitors
of all sporting competitions share; being a fair, hard
playing person. Someone that will push themselves
to the top while respecting all others.

4. Section 2: Ethics--Owners and
Coaches.
The leaders of sports teams, owners and coaches. These
men/women need to be patriarchs of ethical behavior. It
all starts with fair player treatment. That trickles down to
being a model member in their community.

5. Section 3: Ethics--Health and Safety.
Health and safety come number one in every single
sport. If a player is hurt, don’t tell them to
walk/shake it off. What is ethical is to pull the
player in question to make sure they are not
seriously injured.

6. Section 4: Ethics--Athletes and
Community.
Just like owners and coaches, athletes need to be part of their
community. Going out and having a fundraiser football camp for
the local kids is ethical. Building houses for a recently destroyed
community is more than ethical, it’s the greatest gift

7. Section 5: Ethics--Fan Behavior.
Being an ethical fan is being a supporter not a threatening
person. What I mean is you can yell and scream all you
want, even boo. Once a fan starts personally acting a
player about his life or even physical threats that’s where
is becomes unethical.

8. Conclusion
I feel that things are going
to get worse before better.
Players are going to try to
get the better edge no
matter the cost. Coaches
and owners will continue to
grow money hungry,
carrying less and less about
the outside world. Health
will become a non factor,
and fans will riot more and
more after each loss. The
sports community as a
whole will realize how to be
civil in the end though.