Sports and Society Project

1. What role does sportsmanship and
ethical behavior play in professional
sports
By Tucker Johns

2. What is Sportsmanship
• Sportsmanship can be
defined as the behavior
of participants in a
game or athletic event

3. Owners and Coaches
• The Jimmy Fund is a very popular subject
when it comes to sportsmanship in coaches.
John Farrell owner of the Boston Red Sox
created this fund to support adult and
pediatric cancer care. John Farrell is a very
respectable man for doing this, saving the
lives of these people.

4. Owners and Coaches Cont.
• It’s a personal matter
for John because he
himself has been
battling cancer so he
would like to give back
to those going through
the same as him.

5. Health and Safety
• Now a days you see a lot of freak accidents
the involve players getting badly injured while
playing a sport. It may not necessarily be in
relation to a big hit or something, it could be
as simple as stepping wrong and twisting your
leg, tearing your ACL.

6. Health and Safety Cont.
• This could also revolve
around huge hits in
physical sports like
hockey and lacrosse. It
may be a clean hit not
intentionally trying to
hurt the person, but
there may also be
people who seek to
hurt.

7. Athletes and Community
• Magic Johnson is a perfect example of an
athlete having a positive impact on the
community. Magic Johnson was diagnosed
with HIV and he impacted the acceptance of
victims of HIV. He’s targeting mainly the youth,
saying things like “All kids need is a little help,
a little hope and somebody whoe believes in
them.”

8. Athletes and Community Cont.
• Magic Johnson shows
the youth community
that no matter what
happens all you need is
that drive to over come
it, and anything is
possible to overcome
with the support.

9. Fan Behavior
• Fans should not act inappropriate at public
sporting event. They are going to support their
team and not harass the other team.
Screaming/yelling derogatory things at the
other team is no expectable, only things like
“nice job” or “nice try” should be said.

10. Fan Behavior Cont.
• Its acceptable to be
favorable to one
specific team, but that
means you should only
be supporting you’re
team. Positive
reinforcement, telling
them nice game and
such.

11. Conclusion
• I think overall, sportsmanship is increasing in
professional sports. They are starting to realize
how important it is and have even started to
incorporate trophies for sportsmanship at the
end of the seasons for teams/players that
deserve them. Also fans are starting to realize
if they are respectable, they wont get kicked
out of games!