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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ycore Rixle" data-source="post: 167071" data-attributes="member: 675">No, it's notI grew up playing Detroit soccer teams and Sault Ste. Marie, Canada soccer teams all the time, and both were great competitors and gracious hosts (sometimes our teams billeted with families there for the weekend).  In general, fine sportsmanship was displayed on both the Michigan and Canadian sides.Good sportsmanship and good fan behavior are the rule just about everywhere in the world.  Exceptions make the news, but they are exceptions, not the rule.  Detroit fans shouldn't have booed the Raptors as they did, of course, but to criticize the behavior of Americans for this one incident is nitpicking of the worst sort.The answer to the question, "THIS is American sportsmanship?!" is, "No, it's not."  This is: <a href="http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/news/unique/am_text.html" target="_blank">http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/news/unique/am_text.html</a></blockquote>