Our friends over at True Sport would echo this sentiment whole-heartedly.  At Freakonomics, they are talking about a French study that showed that sport led to the riots in the suburbs of Paris a few years back. 

The contrary arguement, and the better one, is that bad sport led to bad outcomes.  Conversely, good sport, leads to good outcomes like teamwork, discipline, and good citizenship.

We all know that ringette is more on the good sport side than the bad sport side.  How can we get even further on the good side?

 Update question – Could more ringette have helped in the banlieues of Paris?  Can it help when there are disagreements in Canada?  

Update Update  – An intrepid reader asks “what is good sport?”.  Good question.  Good sport is sport where the development of the person is greater than the development of the athlete which in turn is greater than the development of the team.  The sport in the banliues of Paris was known as more of throwing out a soccer ball and letting boys play until someone scored or until someone bled.  Terrible sport.