matesmanship in sports? i have rarely seen it and never in pro sports. sports is about winning. kids here have fathers get into fistfights or worse because the other team won. i have seen screaming and threats at kids' games - want to bet that the lesson they are learning isn't exactly about working together as a team or bonding?

i guess ya gotta appreciate that freedom of speech gives someone the right to say they hate an entire group of people just as i appreciate that i have the right to say i despise him and the people who gave him his lack of any human values. but a little empathy training in kindergarden and first grade and reinforcement throughout elementary school might go a long way toward teaching people to see each other as people rather than as groups.