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I'll buy the carefully-constructed argument about the F3 order, but I need to be more convinced to accept the sports theory. For every professional athlete you can name who "loses with class," I could name one who hates to lose and is a very sore loser--even though they've been brought up, as you say, to learn that losing is part of the game. For a Survivor example, of all the seasons the person who's most associated with "sore loser" is Tammy Leitner, whose "hobbies include running, biking, lifting weights, kickboxing, and camping" (from her CBS bio)--although to be fair, with the exception of kickboxing, those aren't necessarily competitive sports.
I think part of learning to lose well comes from participating in sports, but part of it also comes from how they are taught to respond to losing by influential people in their lives: coaches, parents, and older siblings, e.g. I'd be interested if there was any research in this area, and what a scientific study might reveal.
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