Posted on 01/23/2009 3:50:32 AM PST by Perdogg
A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse.
Now officials from the winning school say they are trying to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory.
In a statement Thursday on the Covenant School's Web site, the head of school said, "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened."
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Oh, wait, Oscars mean more money for the winners, so I guess they won't be refusing them, the hypocrites.
Sorry, got OT there...
In a related sorry, liberals in charge in Washington apologize to terrorists for our heavy handed response to 9/11.
Note, what paper picked up the paper.
Come on people, this is just rotten sportsmanship. The coach should be ashamed.
I don’t know, my Father-in-law -a staunch Republican- coached all sort of teams-boys and girls (he had five kids) and taught that sort of thing was bad sportsmanship. I don’t think this is ‘liberal’ so much as a poorly coached team.
Look, the players on the team that lost have learned that they have no future in hoop, so they can begin the search for some other activity better suited to their skills and abilities, and they've had some good exercise At least that's the way it used to be before everybody was supposed to be the same, and merit was replaced by affirmative action, etc. Liberalism is a disease.
I guess the coach will be sent to Gitmo.
In all fairness, the other school was apparently a small school for kids with severe learning disabilities. It was probably fairly easy to rack up points against them, and I doubt that it will give them much to boast about.
Hell they were playing a tiny school made up of special needs kids...they could have let them score a few times at least and had fun with it after about 60 zip.
In all fairness, if the school was a school for learning disabilities, they shouldn’t have been playing the other school in the first place, or it should have been a scrimmage.
But it’s not going to scar the girls, they will be just fine.
I'm guessing you're talking about the coach of the losing team?
They should apologize...and the Covenenant coach should be dismissed.
Taking three point shots and stripping the ball from the other teams point guard when the score was already up? Incredibly bad sportsmanship. Doesnt' Cov. have a second or third string? Why not bring in those girls and have them play a tight zone defense. It would have slowed the game and given the others playing time (and time practicing a D that they wouldn't ordinarily get to do.) Also, that they kept stripping the ball from the weak Dallas point guard is just awful...after about ten easy layups (and a twenty point margin on those shots) shouldn't the Cov. coach said, 'let them bring the ball up?'
Not a liberal thing at all...just horrible sportsmanship.
I agree that the disabled (and this type of “learning disability” encompasses aphasia and other problems and is genuinely disabling) should not be competing with the non-disabled, and that it would have been better not to have had this game in the first place.
But at the same time, it was unsporting of the team to keep on pounding people they knew had no chance of coming back at them. I think good behavior towards your opponent is just elementary sportsmanship.
High school loses by 13 (touchdowns), 91 - 0
Football 1916: Georgia Tech 222 Cumberland College 0
I didn't see any of these in recent threads. I recall the story of Cumberland. Their team made up plays during the game, something like -5 yards per carry. As I recall they did not have an established team.
“It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened.”
Just remember... for the rest of their lives, being eceptional will be something to be ashamed of.
Just what we need more of.
I happen to work in a school with the type of kids described here--dyslexia and short attention spans. We have championship tennis players, kids who skateboard, and shoot 3-pointers in their sleep.
Dyslexia and ADHD don't mean you're handicapped.
If these kids ARE in some way unfit to play comeptitively, why on earth does that school play in this league? They are sending these kids out to fail, thus further damaging their self-esteem--something desperately needed by such kids, whatever their physical situation (which isn't mentioned in the article).
Let's place any blame squarely where it belongs, and not on kids who want to rack up big scores.
Seriously--would YOU want to be able to say your team won 100-0?
I understand how people think about this situation I played church league ball as a kid. There were numerous times when we got stomped.
The fact is, if the two teams were that unequal and the Dallas Academy was a special needs school, they should not have been playing each other to begin with, other than a scrimmage.
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