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Dallas Hoops Team Wants To Forfeit 100-0 Win (Texas - Read the entire story. Kind of sad.)
CBS11TV.com ^ | 01/22/2009

Posted on 01/22/2009 3:01:41 PM PST by devane617

A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 blowout has apologized to the losing school, calling the game "shameful and an embarrassment."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbs11tv.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: basketball; dallas; texas; tx
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Excerted...When you read the article you will understand why I mentioned said it was sad. Lots of mistakes on both sides of this story.
1 posted on 01/22/2009 3:01:42 PM PST by devane617
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After watching the local news story a few minutes ago....I have to ask: How can all the adults, school officials included, let this schedule happen?


2 posted on 01/22/2009 3:05:52 PM PST by devane617 (Republican's first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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This is ridiculous. It’s not like the team they defeated had Down Syndrome! They had ADD. Which means worst case scenario they’re hyper brats. They didn’t lose 100-0 because they’re handicapped they lost because, apparently, they aren’t any good.


3 posted on 01/22/2009 3:05:58 PM PST by exist
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.................and their subsequent actions in wanting to forfeit made it into a big story now and will only serve to rub salt in the wounds of the girls who were trounced.


4 posted on 01/22/2009 3:08:31 PM PST by WildcatClan (Obama is to the Presidency as Basquiat is to art.)
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To: devane617
Good call. The coach of Covenant should be embarrassed.

At my kids school they bring these kinds of schools in and feed them and lead them through a day of school

then play a fun game with the second and third string playing the whole time.

That way the kids with problems in their past see what its like to be with good kids who dont judge them.

5 posted on 01/22/2009 3:09:09 PM PST by DainBramage
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The school has nothing to apologize for, except maybe not playing to run out the clock after it became apparent it was not contest. It’s the governing body that scheduled the game that should be embarrassed.


6 posted on 01/22/2009 3:10:21 PM PST by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: devane617

At this stage of the game (pun noted), a forfeit is meaningless.


7 posted on 01/22/2009 3:10:56 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: devane617

Does anyone know if they covered the spread?


8 posted on 01/22/2009 3:11:13 PM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: Minn

You got my point. It was a game to be won. A game that should have never been played.


9 posted on 01/22/2009 3:11:43 PM PST by devane617 (Republican's first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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Every team that played the Det. Lions should forfeit too.


10 posted on 01/22/2009 3:12:34 PM PST by llevrok (Obama will never be in my spell check dictionary.)
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Dallas Hoops Team Wants To Forfeit 100-0 Win (Texas - Read the entire story. Kind of sad.)

They'd probably beat the Mavericks.

11 posted on 01/22/2009 3:12:45 PM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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Where is Avery when we need him? Ask Cuban...


12 posted on 01/22/2009 3:14:07 PM PST by devane617 (Republican's first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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This story is made to order for Katie or Matt especially if they can find some Republican parents on the winning side. I can just see them trying to interview the losing side as one by one of the girls wanders off camera.


13 posted on 01/22/2009 3:17:20 PM PST by Cyman
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Every team that played the Det. Lions should forfeit too.

We should stop keeping score at all sporting events and give every team a championship trophy and participation ribbons. That would make everyone feel better. (even the Lions)

14 posted on 01/22/2009 3:17:47 PM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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Pffft...all they had to do after 1/2 time was take shot clock violations and “blow” defensive rebounds—fouled them, put them on the charity stripe. That would have helped them score.


15 posted on 01/22/2009 3:18:31 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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Reminds me of a very, very old Mohammed Ali (sp), bruised and beaten, slumped in a chair, listening to his former sparring partner, Larry Holmes, at a post fight press conference.

Having beaten Ali mercilessly, Holmes went on and on about how much he respected Ali- when Ali interrupted--"If you respected me so much, why'd you whup me so bad?"

16 posted on 01/22/2009 3:18:46 PM PST by VinL (VinL---My unauthorized, amateur blog -(wegotsarah.com))
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Texas, A Christian School, probably conservative....I suspect we will see this story go national soon.


17 posted on 01/22/2009 3:19:18 PM PST by devane617 (Republican's first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: Minn

I don’t understand this at all..one group of girls are praised for playing the best they could no matter what...and the other group is being scolded for it. What kind of country are we?


18 posted on 01/22/2009 3:20:13 PM PST by Hildy
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To: exist
This is ridiculous. It’s not like the team they defeated had Down Syndrome! They had ADD. Which means worst case scenario they’re hyper brats. They didn’t lose 100-0 because they’re handicapped they lost because, apparently, they aren’t any good.

If they had been dyslexic, they would have lost 0-100.

19 posted on 01/22/2009 3:21:17 PM PST by Random Access
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To: exist; xsmommy
Actually you don't know the extent of the learning disabilities of these students. They list ADD or dyslexia for folks like you who are obviously unacquainted with children who have learning disabilities.

I can see the excitement of the school as they realized they might actually score 100 points, however, in a system that has a built in procedure so a lopsided game is to end sooner, why didn't the officials step in and end the game?

20 posted on 01/22/2009 3:23:23 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Computer says No..... Carole Beer)
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