sportsmanship

Misadventure abounds when Wally McDoogle is entered into a skateboarding competition and learns winning isn't everything.

Presents the struggles, failures, and successes of people of different backgrounds who aspired to be professional athletes and suggests ways to lay the foundation for a sports career.

Friends from hockey camp, Josh, Peter, and Sam are happy to see one another again; however, they all play on different teams, each competing to play in the gold medal game.

Nine-year-old Ben learns some lessons in self-control and sportsmanship when his behavior on the soccer field gets him sent to the bench.

Brief rhymes present occasions when fairness is needed in dealing with friends, bullies, games, groups, and tests.

When Laurie, a basketball hotshot, reluctantly tries out for the middle school softball team, she is surprised to find that she enjoys the game but afraid that everyone will expect too much of her.

After graduating from high school, Chip is invited to join the Parkville Bears as a summer intern and he manages to save the Bears' season--and his own baseball future--from being spoiled by the schemes of an unscrupulous man.

Vicky is thrilled to be on the eighth-grade tennis team, until she realizes that her new playing partner Brenda is ruthless about winning and will even cheat to do so.

Jeremy Bloom is offered a second chance to pull up his D- grades from the previous year in his teacher's poetry writing class. His topic is sports.

A guide for coaches that discusses the basic principles of sportsmanship and offers advice on how to develop those characteristics in their players.