I'm still struggling with the word 'sportsman' itself. On its face it makes me think of like, Bo Jackson or Jim Thorpe or something. But that is clearly not what the word actually means. So maybe it means, MVP? Yeah, okay, it sorta does. I mean, you got to at least be good at your sport to win the award. But if we were to pretend for a second that somehow this year, Richie Incognito was far and away the best football player on Earth, we all know he still wouldn't win the award. Look no further than Jameis Winston. The DA had the one and only Heisman vote this year.
So what is a 'sportsman'? Maybe it's like, "I am loyal to sports. All sports'. Then it would be the director of the American (I assume only an American can win it) Olympic Committee or something. Or maybe it's something like what Axl describes. Or maybe it means, 'the most gracious and rule abiding person'. But I assure you, we do not know that man's name and never will. That's how I play tennis and I always lose. (always)
'Sportsman' is an ephemeral algorithm that uses 'talent', 'salary', 'wins', 'correct sport(s)', 'appeal to women', 'image', and 'popularity' all operating as a function of 'selling fucking magazines'.