Possible Clues:

• Honorable conduct
• The game sings with the stack in etc.
• Insect — sport
• Jiminy, e.g.
• Jumping insect related to the grasshopper and locust
• Muscle spasm dropping the odds of next game
• Insect; game
• Sport sprain and so on, with the foot going first
• Nocturnal noisemaker
• Stick-and-ball affair