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Pal there are no religious lessons to be learned in playing sports.

Obviously you've never read The Epistle to the Collosians.

I am a little more worried about the Economic Collapse of the country and the Big Picture than a girls basketball game of lopsided proportions.

For what it is worth, the economic collapse of the country is tied directly to the lesson to be learned from this fiasco. Corporate greed and the "win at all costs" attitude that has permeated the corporate world over the last 50 years has resulted in the collapse of our economy. Big companies were busy using leveraged money to finance takeovers of smaller companies and driving their competition into the ground and now they are "too big to fail" and without bailouts, all of us are going to lose.

Covenant had that same attitude. They were not merely satisfied with winning, but they had to dominate, they had to humilate their opponent and literally crush their spirits. Ultimately their own greed was their downfall. Winning is not the "only thing". Fighting the "good fight" is the most important lesson in sports and in business.

Read Collosians.

Corporate greed and the "win at all costs" attitude that has permeated the corporate world over the last 50 years has resulted in the collapse of our economy.

There is no such thing as "corporate greed". Corporations have no greed, any more than they have bodies or souls.

People are greedy. And people are greedy whether they run a corporation or a convenience store.

It's a cop-out for people to screech and fume over "corporate greed", when it's really the culmination of individual greed, usually including themselves.

P-Marlowe said: Corporate greed and the "win at all costs" attitude that has permeated the corporate world over the last 50 years has resulted in the collapse of our economy.

So you say.

But some of us would blame the liberal establishment for having encouraged people to buy homes who couldn't really afford them by insisting that "fairness" dictates that virtually anybody should be able to get a loan.

If those who are defaulting on their loans had been forced to deal with a lending system uninfected by liberal "do-goodism", do you think the real estate bubble could have existed?

And what does the "bailout" accomplish? It rewards incompetence by sending government funds to lending institutions that didn't have the sense to properly value their portfolios. I guess it is only "fair" as we wouldn't want them to lose a lot of money, would we?