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I hate pussy.
If you get your ass beat 100-0, you don't need an apology or for the other team to publicly forfeit. You deserve to get ing laughed at for playing like re ed assholes.
Why are we turning into overly sensitive pussies when it comes to sports and our kids?
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/28796621/
Texas prep hoops team might forfeit 100-0 win
Girls game was 'shameful' — 'Victory without honor is a great loss'
DALLAS - A high school girls basketball team that beat an opponent 100-0 has a case of blowout remorse.
The winning school now says it wants to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory.
“It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened,” the head of the school said Thursday on The Covenant School’s Web site. He added that Covenant has made “a formal request to forfeit the game recognizing that a victory without honor is a great loss.”
Covenant, a private Christian school in Dallas, defeated Dallas Academy 100-0 last week. Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime.
A parent who attended the game told The Associated Press that Covenant continued to make 3-pointers — even in the fourth quarter. She praised the Covenant players but said spectators and an assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points.
“I think the bad judgment was in the full-court press and the 3-point shots,” said Renee Peloza, whose daughter plays for Dallas Academy. “At some point, they should have backed off.”
Dallas Academy coach Jeremy Civello told The Dallas Morning News that the game turned into a “layup drill,” with the opposing team’s guards waiting to steal the ball and drive to the basket. Covenant scored 12 points in the fourth quarter and “finally eased up when they got to 100 with about four minutes left,” he said.
Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with “learning differences,” such as short attention spans or dyslexia.
There is no mercy rule in girls basketball that shortens the game or permits the clock to continue running when scores become lopsided. There is, however, “a golden rule” that should have applied in this contest, said Edd Burleson, the director of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools. Both schools are members of this association, which oversees private school sports in Texas.
“On a personal note, I told the coach of the losing team how much I admire their girls for continuing to compete against all odds,” Burleson said. “They showed much more character than the coach that allowed that score to get out of hand. It’s up to the coach to control the outcome.”
Covenant coach Micah Grimes and head of school Kyle Queal did not immediately respond to messages left by The Associated Press on Thursday.
In the statement on the Covenant Web site, Queal said the game “does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to compe ion. We humbly apologize for our actions and seek the forgiveness of Dallas Academy, TAPPS and our community.”
Queal said school officials met with Dallas Academy officials to apologize and praised the Dallas Academy players for “strength, composure and for ude in a game in which they clearly emerged the winner.”
Peloza said the coach and other parents praised the Dallas Academy girls for limiting Covenant to 12 points in the fourth quarter. She added that neither her daughter nor her teammates seemed to dwell on the loss.
“Somewhere during that game they got caught up in the moment,” Peloza said, referring to the Covenant players, fans and coaches. “Our girls just moved on. That’s the happy part of the story.”
I hate pussy.
rofl!
The only thing shameful and embarrassing is the disservice to the game of basketball displayed by the dumb es who didn't have the heart to fight back and put the ball in the hoop ONE FREAKING TIME THE ENTIRE GAME“It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened,” the head of the school said Thursday on The Covenant School’s Web site.
lol you beat me to it i was about to post this, thats ing sad you are correct sir
I'd love to be those kid's classmates the day after that happened.
These "Christians" need to go to .
I'm not touching this.
Political correctness and sensitivity brainwashing.Why are we turning into overly sensitive pussies when it comes to sports and our kids?
It's all by design.
Obviously I wasn't there, but that score makes me doubt that the losing team "continued to compete against all odds." I'm betting that they started mailing it in somewhere around the time the score was 40-0 or so. Somewhere Wade Philips is printing out this story and making a few hundred copies so that everyone can see that he's not a clear cut candidate for worst coach in all of Dallas.
Is an embarassment that sports have been lowered to this. How about showing some pride in the game? What next a runner up parade for the losers?
My highschool,Mckinney boyd, mens varsity bbal got SLAPPED against dallas jesuit 106-22 the other night. Did we ?no.Did we take the loss?yes.Do we still suck ?Yes
these pussies need to man up and just deal with this . I guess limiting a team to 12 points when you are down by 90+ is considered a moral victory LMAO
Those kids should be traded for Devin Harris.
lol ... fail on so many levels.
Reminds me of George Carlin's last gig 'It's Bad For Ya'
"You're a loser bobby!"
100-0. A full court press and 3 pointers throughout the game. Sportsmanship is a big part of sports especially at the highschool level.What they did was wrong. Asking the league to forfeit the game continues the embarassment for the team who lost 100-0.
NOW THAT IS FUNNY! and ima Dallas fan fIRE WADE!!!!!!
epic fail.
-Mars
Did some of you even read this:
Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with “learning differences,” such as short attention spans or dyslexia.
For the Christian school to humiliate them is indefensible.
why would that winning coach tell them to keep playing after it was 40-0, by then i think everyone knows who would have won that game. The forfeit idea is stupid, but the lack of sportsmanship is horrible.
But how many points did Kome score?
Solution for the losing team: Get to the FT line and make a shot PLEASE! Have some dignity.
Shouldn't it be the responsibility of the coach of the loosing team to forfeit the game once he sees the game is out of reach so that he can save his players the embarrassment?
I could maybe understand if the winning team still had their best players in, but if they had the scrubs in I don't see the problem.
Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with “learning differences,” such as short attention spans or dyslexia.
- Why is this school fielding a varsity basketball team, and
- Why is this team playing mainstream compe ion?
AFAIC, this school is wrong for putting its students in a position to be humiliated in the first place.
In my basketball comp as a child there was a rule that said you couldn't have full court press when you were up by 30. Wouldn't stop the half court trap however.
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