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Message: [QUOTE="Big Mick, post: 3922698, member: 7201"] [SIZE=4][B][COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)]Aaagh! Hog Wash ([I]as they say in Iowa :D[/I])[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE] [COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)][B][SIZE=4][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Two things are going on here.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][B]1) This is sport and so sportsmanship is that fouling someone (in any sport) is outside the rules. So, we give a helping hand by way of saying sorry. Sort of a "Marquess of Queensberry" way of being in the sporting tradition.[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]2) As it relates to basketball: by giving that helping hand, it may save any retaliation from being an undercut to just a hard foul. [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]As an aside: In Soccer the "sorry" was often a pat on the head. We had to stop that as it sometimes resulted in a fistful of hair and... [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR] [SIZE=4][B][COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)] [/COLOR][/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]