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Girls team shows remorse after 100-0 win (Liberals in sports alert)
SF Gate ^ | Friday, January 23, 2009

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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1 posted on 01/23/2009 3:50:32 AM PST by Perdogg
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To: MikeD; OKIEDOC; Zuben Elgenubi; GOP_Raider; dfwgator; Man50D; Mr. Jeeves; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; ...

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2 posted on 01/23/2009 3:51:39 AM PST by Perdogg (Only the hypnotized never lie)
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To: Perdogg
I hope every liberal who wins an Oscar this year gets up there and refuses it, and apologizes for winning over the others.

Oh, wait, Oscars mean more money for the winners, so I guess they won't be refusing them, the hypocrites.

Sorry, got OT there...

3 posted on 01/23/2009 3:52:46 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Looking up all those democrat "patriotic to oppose this president" quotes...)
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To: Perdogg

In a related sorry, liberals in charge in Washington apologize to terrorists for our heavy handed response to 9/11.


4 posted on 01/23/2009 3:54:10 AM PST by fwdude ("...a 'centrist' ... has few principles - and those are negotiable." - Don Feder)
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To: Perdogg
What utter nonsense. When these children have children, the winners - but more so, the losers - will regale their own children with the story of a 100 - 0 game.

Note, what paper picked up the paper.

5 posted on 01/23/2009 3:55:59 AM PST by MarkT
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To: Perdogg

Come on people, this is just rotten sportsmanship. The coach should be ashamed.


6 posted on 01/23/2009 3:57:08 AM PST by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Perdogg

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.


7 posted on 01/23/2009 3:57:59 AM PST by bronxboy
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To: Perdogg
Another consequence of the liberal assault on achievement and excellence.

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.

8 posted on 01/23/2009 3:59:11 AM PST by steelyourfaith (It's high time for the B.O. Impeachment proceedings to begin.)
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To: jalisco555

I guess the coach will be sent to Gitmo.


9 posted on 01/23/2009 4:00:45 AM PST by Perdogg (Only the hypnotized never lie)
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To: MarkT

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.


10 posted on 01/23/2009 4:01:11 AM PST by livius
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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.


11 posted on 01/23/2009 4:05:22 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: livius

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.


12 posted on 01/23/2009 4:05:43 AM PST by Perdogg (Only the hypnotized never lie)
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To: jalisco555
Come on people, this is just rotten sportsmanship. The coach should be ashamed.

I'm guessing you're talking about the coach of the losing team?

13 posted on 01/23/2009 4:06:45 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Looking up all those democrat "patriotic to oppose this president" quotes...)
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To: Perdogg
Now I feel all icky...I went to the SF Gate...ewwwww....BUT

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.

14 posted on 01/23/2009 4:07:02 AM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (Yoi and double Yoi!!! Pittsburgh is going to the Super Bowl!!!)
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To: Perdogg

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.


15 posted on 01/23/2009 4:09:17 AM PST by livius
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To: Perdogg
Softball coach Monte Sherrill was suspended by the school for two games after his team, which is ranked fourth in the nation by USA Today, beat West Charlotte, 55-0, on April 15.

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.

16 posted on 01/23/2009 4:09:32 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Perdogg

“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.


17 posted on 01/23/2009 4:10:29 AM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: DainBramage
Hell they were playing a tiny school made up of special needs kids...

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?

18 posted on 01/23/2009 4:10:45 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Looking up all those democrat "patriotic to oppose this president" quotes...)
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To: Perdogg
But it’s not going to scar the girls, they will be just fine.

A quote from a girl from the losing team:

"Even if you are losing, you might as well keep playing," said Shelby Hyatt, a freshman on the team. "Keep trying, and it's going to be OK."
19 posted on 01/23/2009 4:10:59 AM PST by Caramelgal (My employer had a room for us to watch the Obamination. I, on the other hand had actual work to do.)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

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.


20 posted on 01/23/2009 4:11:36 AM PST by Perdogg (Only the hypnotized never lie)
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