1 - NFL is worse. If a defender goes all out and crashed into the offense while in victory formation everyone would react big time. Plus I can’t stand that crab stealing mudder fucker!

2 - Nope. There was no surrender offered.

3 - No. Rules are rules for a reason. Hockey played could have been seriously injured.

4 - Nothing to handle. Karma is a bitch. And opponents embarrassed have a long memory!

"Unwritten rules" are dumb. 

Retaliation is dumb. 

"Tricking" the opponent at the end of the game is dumb.

Hockey ---- even though an empty-net goal is arguably "running up the score", hockey players never turn down the chance to score them.  That's part of the hockey culture.

So who the hell cares as to HOW they score into an empty-net???  Yeesh.  Either way, it's a goal, and arguably doing a slap shot runs a greater risk of him missing.  And what if he only took a HALF slap-shot?  Where does that rank among these unwritten rules? 

Anyway, what I guess I'm saying: Cases #1 and #3 are fine.  Part of the game.  Case #2 is different IMO, given it is actively involving deception, setting up for one thing and doing another.

football is the best sportsmanship, possibly better than hockey.  both sports have players genuinely embrace one another, bro-hug, etc. after big games and big series.  a guy gets hurt, both teams are attentive and respectful. 

hoops is the worst.  relatively speaking, no sportsmanship at all.  give a cheap shot, knock a guy down, never see them help the guy up.  walk away all puffed up.  plus, tend to slapfight like girls when they do fight.  

I don’t care one way or another about 1; if the players agree it was egregious they’ll set up the offender for embarrassment later.

#2 is lecture-worthy because victory formation is an implicit agreement to end the game without further effort.  If they really wanted to get their guy the TD they should line up in a real play.

#3 is stupid and Reilly should get suspended.

Yes.

1. NFL is worse. V formation is a mutual understanding that the game is over 

2. No I played hockey for years and I didn’t see much of an issue. Kind of a dick move but not at all egregious. Slap shot into empty net is the equivalent to lightly jogging instead of running while heading into the endzone to seal the win

3. no. Reilly is a dick for doing that and I hope he gets 10 game suspension

4. nah 

Yes. But even more by coach and locker room. Shorsey is the worst. But then, the women up in Sudbury are insanely hot. 

All joking aside this is a good question. Hazing is common in most male sports, as are practical jokes. Going for three is a time honored ambition. As are dong punches in the scrum. Some fanbases indulge it more than others. It is where the "...hang a hundred on them." comes from. Woody got his in the end.

All of the asshattery is avoidable by a good coaching staff. I don't know a single coach of men's sport who hasn't dealt with unsportsmanlike behavior at some point. This is probably changing as I'm an old man... kids these days.

One counterexample:  high level soccer.  Because of the running clock and season ending tie-breaker rules (total +/- in goals is very important), running up the score is encouraged in a few cases and at worst is shrugged off.  I don't know if it's better or worse than the Big 4 American sports but it's interesting to think about.

1. I found Winston's actions egregious the victory formation signifies that you are not going to try and move the ball forward.  Wait till next year, if he goes into victory formation, I hope he gets plowed.     Honestly, I could go on a Bill Burr level rant about the play but will just say:  you want the touchdown, earn it!   

2.  Not even close... and I will echo the idea that a slap shot is more likely to miss.   

3. I believe in retaliation.  I'm not a big fan of cross checks to the head.   Go over, fight the dude if you don't like it, but cheap shots aren't ok.

4. The NBA seems to do a good job of policing one another.  The NFL seems a little more fraught; I look at all the late hits on top of piles each week and wonder why they aren't called.  In fact, I would argue that the NFL is the only league that actively attempts to hurt their opponent.

Violence in the NHL is certainly looked on differently than either of those other sports. 

Reilly is going to get hammered.  bare minimum of 6; 10+ not out of the question.

I wish they would just let the scrubs play in a blowout. I don’t need to see walkon Bob dribble out the clock at half court. Maybe they could have a hand signal for the losing team that lets the other team know it’s OK to play basketball. Those guys practice hard all week and usually don’t get in the game. When they finally do, they have to stand in the corner for 30 seconds.

I'll bite.

1. The NFL one is probably the worst, because there's no need to pull a fast one when the game is already over. The NBA one would be similar if the team with the ball had come out as if to just run out the game clock and then the player broke for the basket. The NHL one is the least bad, because the team with the puck is always expected to score in that situation.

2. No, because it's about how you score, not whether you score. It's more like just handing the ball to the official if you score a touchdown near the end of a blowout.

3. The appropriate retaliation is to do the same thing to the other team the next time the roles are reversed. Rielly was way out of line, and I hope he got some sort of sanction.

4. I don't think it's the league's place to do anything about this if that's what you meant. I think the NBA coach was right to speak to the player in the locker room.

A slam dunk is fun as hell and hurts no one, so I think it's the least unsportsmanlike action of the three. Especially in the NBA, they are there to entertain the fans, so if you want to turn into the Harlem Globetrotters for the last ten seconds of a blowout, go for it. It should be allowed equally to home or away, and ahead or behind.

Violating the victory formation truce is not great. It was the end of the season and I get why they wanted to get a guy a TD. They should have just lined up and run a normal play.

The slapshot ENG was a little over the top and he deserved a bit of payback but Rielly overdid it. A chirp, shove, or fight in the rematch would have been more appropriate than the headshot and he will get a deserved suspension for that. 

You break the code, I break your face.

I remember in 1992, the University of Houston Cougars were hosting our arch-rival Illinois Illini. Houston was up a lot. IIRC, on the last play of the game (or so), Houston was up 24-13 and faked a kneel-down--the QB popped up and tossed a TD to an uncovered receiver--to make an even more lopsided score 31-13 for no apparent reason.

Well, the following week, Houston visited the Big House. Bo was none to pleased with what Houston did to a conference mate, so he exacted some Big Ten revenge 61-7.

That is sportsmanship.

(BTW of course different sports have different types of sportsmanship. Golfers are supposed to turn themselves in for violating the rules; hockey players beat each other up for violating the rules. Also, European soccer teams [like in UK and Germany] would tell you its disrespectful to take the foot off the gas when playing a vastly inferior team.)