Baldwin said Rogge had told her that Americans should not be so haughty or isolationist in their sporting behavior.
Among the outsiders talking is Dr. Tom Ferraro, a Long Island sports psychologist and Freudian analyst who says: "All sports behavior is multidimensional; there's fun, friendship, money, fame, narcissism, the sublimation of aggression into something prosocial.
He so flouted the established protocol of sports behavior that when the world sided with Liston, the scary black man, against Cassius Clay/Ali, the even scarier one, a black Muslim who represented the future, it signaled a paradigm shift.
After one disheartening game, Yao Ming, about to become the Houston Rockets' prize rookie center, stormed off the court without his team in tow, not your customary Chinese sporting behavior.
The 750iL is more rewarding of sporting behavior than the V-12-powered Mercedes-Benz S600.
Perhaps we need to begin with input from community youth leaders, parents, coaches, educators, sportswriters and mental health professionals to foster and cultivate healthy sports behaviors.
While there is a growing body of knowledge on disability sport consumer behavior (Byon, Carroll, Cottingham, Grady, & Allen, 2011; Byon, Cottingham, & Carroll, 2010), these studies used scales explicitly designed for non-disability sport contexts, showing only reasonable model fit and not examining factors specific to the disability sport consumer experience.
The sporting goods market has a myriad of segments that can be categorized by product, sport, geography, behavior, participation, organization and standard demographics.
Emotions, however, will be expressed either outwardly (through sports, violent behavior or substance abuse) or inwardly (high blood pressure, ulcers).
"I'd say that in terms of its impact on youths in sports, the behavior of some coaches on the court is more harmful than what they do off it".
