Blog: If You Can't Beat 'Em… Beat 'Em Up!

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I was sitting in a hotel lobby surrounded by other people when I opened up my morning news alerts and saw an article announcing the Kentucky High School Athletic Associations' decision to suspend post-game handshakes, so I had to keep my disgust to a minimum - a casual eye roll and understated sigh. Seriously? These athletes are displaying poor sportsmanship, and the solution to that is to do away with the concept? That's like dropping math from the curriculum because the students aren't getting it.

Not that I've ever considered the obligatory post-game handshake a shining example of exemplary sportsmanship, but if the bar is set so low these days that simply not getting into a fight with another player during those few seconds is cause for celebration, you take what you can get. As far as I'm concerned, though, you can't have sports without sportsmanship. The Mongols made it work, but I'd like to think we're a little more civilized.

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