The term sportsmanship refers to a set of virtues and positive behaviors in sports or similar activities that supports respect, self-control fairness, and ethics with competitors. These virtues and positive behaviors mainly aim at guaranteeing participants in a sport treat others in the best way and play fair, despite other people being in the opposite team or supporting it. Considering this, sportsmanship is not only limited to other athletes but apply to all the people that could be part of a sports event including the fans of opposing and supporting team, the cheerleaders, coaches and even the parents or family of all the players. Therefore, it is true that sportsmanship extends beyond the playing field as athletes need to respect, be fair and show other positive behaviors towards all the people involve in the sportive event.
