Liberalism suggests that sport competition can be harmful to the gentle psyche of losers. Hogwash. Sure, it feels real good to win, and not so good to lose, but one can learn more and grow stronger when motivated by defeat, analyzing how to improve. It is a great life lesson.
There are a number of news items in recent years condemning individual winning sports teams for youth, and suggestions of how to thwart them with rules changes. This is absurd.
It's not at all about asking players not to do their best. Not their fault. It's about how their coach should have had the girls doing their best while playing his backups in a more passive zone defense which would have still be an honest effort at playing defense but would not have tacked on so many points after the game had been decided. The issue is not about broad societal issues on the nature of competition, but on a winning coach not showing basketball common sense and sportsmanship. What if his star point guard had injured her knee in the glorious effort to score 100 after the outcome had long been decided?