character and sportmanship trumps winning for one magic night

A few weeks ago the DeKalb, ILL boys' basketball team traveled 2 1/2 hours to Milwaukee to play a regular season basketball game. This rivaled matchup was a close game throughout but behind the scenes life was winning. Just a few hours earlier a member of the home team, senior guard Johntell Franklin, had lost his mother to a fight with cancer. (She was only 39 yrs of age.) J. Franklin had shown up to "watch" the game right before halftime. Later in the game, the grief stricken youngster decided that he wanted to play in his mother's memory. The only problem was that his name was not in the official scorebook because his coach had not expected him to be there. The technical foul was issued on the team even though the DeKalb high school coach had begged the refs to overlook the infraction. That's when Caoch Rohlman asked for volunteers (pictured above), and one of his best player's hand went up. The player from DeKalb went to the free throw line (at the request of his coach) and shot both free throws several feet short of the goal! It didn't take long for the Milwaukee players (Franklin's team) to figure out what was going on. They stood and turned toward the DeKalb bench and started applauding the gesture of character and sportmanship. "I did it for the guy who lost his mom," McNeal (the free throw shooter) told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "It was the right thing to do!"
Ever been caught between the right thing and the winning thing? Have you ever had to struggle with having character and getting promoted? Doing right or getting a raise? Having integrity or losing opportunity? What would you have done? How can you live with character and do the "right thing" this week? -Casey C.