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A yellow card being given in a game of handball. Unsportsmanlike conduct (also called untrustworthy behaviour or ungentlemanly fraudulent or bad sportsmanship or poor sportsmanship or anti fair-play) is a foul or offense in many sports that violates the sport's generally accepted rules of sportsmanship and participant conduct.
A personal foul is the most common type of foul. It results from personal contact between two opposing players. Basketball features constant motion, and contact between opposing players is unavoidable, but significant contact that is the fault of illegal conduct by one opponent is a foul against that player. Most personal fouls are called ...
These technical fouls are not for unsportsmanlike conduct, so they do not result in ejections from the game. This rule let Don Otten set the NBA record for personal fouls in a regular-season game. He had eight fouls while playing for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks (now the Atlanta Hawks ) against the Sheboygan Red Skins on November 24, 1949. [ 8 ]
Per the rulebook, a player can be flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct for “taunting, baiting or ridiculing an opponent verbally,” a delayed, excessive or choreographed act and even “bowing ...
These fouls are counted as personal fouls and technical fouls. A flagrant 1 foul (men's) or unsportsmanlike foul (women's) involves excessive or severe contact during a live ball, including especially when a player "swings an elbow and makes illegal, non-excessive contact with an opponent above the shoulders".
The refs flagged Smiley for a 15-yard “flagrant personal foul” penalty as a result of the play, which gave Clemson a first-and-10 from Virginia’s 24-yard line, and added that Smiley had been ...
The statement cited Green's "history of unsportsmanlike acts" in assessing the penalty. The NBA is also fining Gobert, Klay Thompson and Jaden McDaniels $25,000 each for their roles in Tuesday's ...
Unsportsmanlike conduct is a non-contact foul; if contact is involved it becomes a personal foul. Examples include verbal abuse of officials, and taunting, which, since 2004 in the NFL, has included any "prolonged and premeditated celebrations" by players (prior to that year the latter carried only a 5-yard penalty).