How to Become a Good Sport

Do one simple thing

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If your team loses and you can honestly say, “It’s only a game,” you are a good sport. But if you almost die when your last hope strikes out, fumbles the ball, misses the free throw, or in some other way causes your team to lose, you may be a poor sport. If you kick and scream, you are a poor sport.

You know that next year your team may win, and that you will then forget the agony you must now endure. But how can you avoid the agony altogether? In other words, how can you, a poor sport, become a good sport?

Choose a team that always wins.

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John Porter manages his family’s cattle ranch in California, where he also writes essays, stories, and screenplays — and sometimes kicks and screams when his team loses.