ortsmanship Sportsmanship is an aspiration or ethos that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake with proper fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with the competitors. A "sore loser" refers to one who does not take getting defeated well, who gets their emotions to the better of them. Where as a "good sportsmanship" means being a "respected WINNER" or being a "respected loser" which causes a less likely chance of fighting with other teammates or opponents. In general, sportsmanship refers to showing a high moral standards such as fairness, self-control, courage, and has been associated with INTERPERSONAL concepts of treating others and being treated fairly. Also maintaining self-control when dealing with other authority and opponents is an example of having good sportsmanship and not a sore loser. Sportsmanship is also looked at as how one reacts to a sport, a video game or other opponents. Today 's sporting culture, in particular professional sport PLACES great importance on the idea of competition and winning and sportsmanship. Since every sport is RULE DRIVEN, the most common offence of bad sportsmanship is the act of cheating or breaking the rules to gain an unfair advantage. A competitor who shows poor sportsmanship after losing a game or contest is a "sore loser." Sore loser behavior includes blaming others for the loss, not accepting responsibility for personal actions that contributed to the defeat, reacting to the loss in an immature way, making excuses for the defeat, and saying it was an unfavorable conditions or  Martinez 2 other petty issues as reasons for the defeat. A bad sportsmanship is acts by bragging about his or her win, rubbing the win in the face of the opponenT.