Sportsmanship is definitally lacking at many of the games now days, as for how to handle it ?? It can be touchy, by far the best thing to do is to notify the game management of the problem and let them deal with it.
I beleive that if an official acknowledges the disrespect of the fans by giving them dirty looks or by making some sort of hand gesture or such as to try to get them to stop their rude behavior, just magnifys the situation that much more.
Since if these people already have no respect for the game and the players, they certainly are not going to give any respect to an official who's making faces at them, if anything they'll be worse, since now they know that they can get a response out of you.
I think it's best to ignore the crowd, and if you think they are out of hand notify the management, the less attention we bring to ourselves the better in these situations.
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