[Between the Lines]

Here is something interesting:

But they won't be playing Covenant again this season; they canceled their Jan. 30 game against the team. After the game, Dallas Academy informed the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools that it was withdrawing its girls team from the league for the rest of the season.

"We just said, 'The hell with it,' " said Jim Richardson, Dallas Academy's headmaster. . . Dallas Academy is busy piecing together a new schedule of non-league games.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/012209dnsposhutout.40d72ee.html

The school/team initially said that it was not embarrassed by the 100-0 loss. So one has to ask, have they been so humiliated by the national pity party thrown in their honor that they are withdrawn from league competition entirely?

If yes, then is it more humiliating to loose by a great margin or to be pitied for loosing? Does our pity do more harm than good?

[SoothingDave]

They are doing the rational thing and stopping play in a league that is literally “out of their league.” It has nothing to do with pity or losing by 100.

Had they lost by 50 it would be just as bad.

[rbmillerjr]

Thank God this coach was fired.

100-0, that is pathetic. A good coach would have found creative ways to have his team work on their skills instead of jumping up and down as they reached 100.

Good fire by the Christian school.

You gotta love the free marketplace of ideas in America.

[Star Traveler]

You quoted — “Dallas Academy is busy piecing together a new schedule of non-league games.”

Ummmm..., like against midgets who have never played a basketball game before... LOL...