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Unsportsmanlike conduct

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Unsportsmanlike conduct (also called unsporting behaviour or ungentlemanly conduct or bad sportsmanship or poor sportsmanship) is a foul or offense in many sports that violates the sport's generally accepted rules of sportsmanship and participant conduct. [1]

47 relations: American football, Arena Football League, Association football, Basketball, Bench-clearing brawl, Bodyline, Canadian football, Cheating, Cricket, Diving (association football), Field lacrosse, FIFA, Fighting in ice hockey, Formula One, Foul (sports), Fouls and misconduct (association football), Gamesmanship, Gaming the system, Hodder & Stoughton, ICC Cricket Code of Conduct, Ice hockey, Indianapolis, Laws of Cricket, Laws of the Game (association football), Martin Truex Jr., Michael Waltrip Racing, NASCAR, NASCAR playoffs, National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Federation of State High School Associations, National Football League, National Hockey League, Penalty (gridiron football), Penalty card, Profanity, Sine qua non, Sledging (cricket), Sport, Sportsmanship, Suspension (punishment), Tennis, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Touchdown celebration, Trash-talk, Unfair act, Verbal abuse.

American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Arena Football League

The Arena Football League (AFL) is a professional indoor American football league in the United States.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Bench-clearing brawl

A bench-clearing brawl, sometimes known as a basebrawl or a rhubarb, is a form of ritualistic fighting that occurs in sports, most notably baseball and ice hockey, in which every player on both teams leave their dugouts, bullpens or benches, and charge the playing area in order to fight one another or try to break up a fight.

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Bodyline

Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Don Bradman.

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Canadian football

Canadian football is a sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area (end zone).

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Cheating

Cheating is the receiving of a reward for ability or finding an easy way out of an unpleasant situation by dishonest means.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Diving (association football)

In association football, diving is an attempt by a player to gain an unfair advantage by falling to the ground and possibly feigning an injury, to give the impression that a foul has been committed.

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Field lacrosse

Field lacrosse is a full contact outdoor men's sport played with ten players on each team.

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FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA; French for "International Federation of Association Football") is an association which describes itself as an international governing body of association football, futsal, and beach soccer.

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Fighting in ice hockey

Fighting in ice hockey is an established tradition of the sport in North America, with a long history that involves many levels of amateur and professional play and includes some notable individual fights.

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Formula One

Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group.

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Foul (sports)

In sports, a foul is an inappropriate or unfair act by a player as deemed by a referee, usually violating the rules of a sport or game.

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Fouls and misconduct (association football)

Fouls and misconduct in association football are acts committed by players which are deemed by the referee to be unfair and are subsequently penalized.

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Gamesmanship

Gamesmanship is the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win or gain a serious advantage in a game or sport.

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Gaming the system

Gaming the system (also gaming the rules, bending the rules, abusing the system, cheating the system, milking the system, playing the system, or working the system) can be defined as using the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order, instead, to manipulate the system for a desired outcome.

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Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.

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ICC Cricket Code of Conduct

The ICC Cricket Code of Conduct is a regulation regarding the conduct of professional players in the sport of cricket.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Laws of Cricket

The Laws of Cricket is a code which specifies the rules of the game of cricket worldwide.

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Laws of the Game (association football)

The Laws of the Game (LOTG) are the codified rules that help define association football.

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Martin Truex Jr.

Martin Lee Truex Jr. (born June 29, 1980) is an American professional stock car racing driver.

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Michael Waltrip Racing

Michael Waltrip Racing Holdings LLC, doing business as Michael Waltrip Racing ("MWR"), was an American professional stock car racing team that last competed full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

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NASCAR

National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock-car racing.

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NASCAR playoffs

The NASCAR playoffs is a championship playoff system used in the NASCAR's three national series.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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National Federation of State High School Associations

The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) is the body that writes the rules of competition for most high school sports and activities in the United States.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America, currently comprising 31 teams: 24 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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Penalty (gridiron football)

In American football and Canadian football, a penalty is a sanction called against a team for a violation of the rules, called a foul.

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Penalty card

Penalty cards are used in many sports as a means of warning, reprimanding or penalising a player, coach or team official.

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Profanity

Profanity is socially offensive language, which may also be called swear words, curse words, cuss words, bad language, strong language, offensive language, crude language, coarse language, foul language, bad words, oaths, blasphemous language, vulgar language, lewd language, choice words, or expletives.

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Sine qua non

Sine qua non or condicio sine qua non (plural: condiciones sine quibus non) is an indispensable and essential action, condition, or ingredient.

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Sledging (cricket)

Sledging is a term used in cricket to describe the practice whereby some players seek to gain an advantage by insulting or verbally intimidating the opposing player.

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Sport

Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.

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Sportsmanship

Sportsmanship is an aspiration or ethos that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors.

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Suspension (punishment)

Suspension is either paid or unpaid time away from the workplace as ordered by the employer in order for a workplace investigation to take place.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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Touchdown celebration

Touchdown celebrations are sometimes performed after the scoring of a touchdown in American football.

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Trash-talk

Trash-talk is a form of insult usually found in sports events.

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Unfair act

In American football, an unfair act is a foul that can be called when a player or team commits a flagrant and obviously illegal act that has a major impact on the game.

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Verbal abuse

Verbal abuse (verbal attack or verbal assault) is when a person forcefully criticizes, insults, or denounces someone else.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsportsmanlike_conduct

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