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Girls' Basketball Team Wins Game 100-0, Seeks To Give Away Win

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The Gun Of Bavaria

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Eric Mangini must be coaching girls basketball in his spare time

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/highschool/01/22/covenantschool100.ap/index.html

DALLAS -- 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".

Officials from The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Dallas, said Thursday they are seeking to forfeit the win because "victory without honour is a great loss".

Covenant defeated The Dallas Academy 100-0 on Jan. 13. Covenant led 59-0 at halftime.

The Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and just 20 girls in the school.

The academy specializes in teaching students with what it calls "learning differences", such as short attention spans or difficulty in concentrating.

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gosh i'm not sure how to reply to this.

good for them for apologizing but I wonder if their was some serious in your face stuffs & swats when the losing side shot. chest bumping screamin YEAH!!!!!!! you know what I mean guns?

sounds to me like the coach got chewed out by principal after hearing the news & told to apologise

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The Gun Of Bavaria

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gosh i'm not sure how to reply to this.

good for them for apologizing but I wonder if their was some serious in your face stuffs & swats when the losing side shot. chest bumping screamin YEAH!!!!!!! you know what I mean guns?

sounds to me like the coach got chewed out by principal after hearing the news & told to apologise

You know they had to be laughing or fooling around during the process.

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Yeesh...talk about a coach dropping the ball...a hgih school coach should not put their kids in a situation like this...

way to plan it...

who do they play next? The Dallas School of the Blind and Deaf? Maybe after that they can play the University of Wheelchair-bound Downs Syndrome.

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Yeesh...talk about a coach dropping the ball...a hgih school coach should not put their kids in a situation like this...

way to plan it...

who do they play next? The Dallas School of the Blind and Deaf? Maybe after that they can play the University of Wheelchair-bound Downs Syndrome.

Why would they play UMass? Thats pretty far to travel...

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First, isn't there some kind of slaughter rule where they could have called the game at 50 - zip? Second, who would schedule a game against a team who's players have learning disabilities? The Atheletic director's - both of 'em - should be the one's apologizing. That's just awful.

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Eric Mangini must be coaching girls basketball in his spare time

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/highschool/01/22/covenantschool100.ap/index.html

DALLAS -- 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".

Officials from The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Dallas, said Thursday they are seeking to forfeit the win because "victory without honour is a great loss".

Covenant defeated The Dallas Academy 100-0 on Jan. 13. Covenant led 59-0 at halftime.

The Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and just 20 girls in the school.

The academy specializes in teaching students with what it calls "learning differences", such as short attention spans or difficulty in concentrating.

Very simple solution

The Coach of winning team would be fired before he got on the bus.

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Very simple solution

The Coach of winning team would be fired before he got on the bus.

I like your idea best. The coach knew WTF he was doing. Funny how they hit 100 points right on the nose. He could have just told his girls not to shoot. Terrible lack of sportsmanship.

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I like your idea best. The coach knew WTF he was doing. Funny how they hit 100 points right on the nose. He could have just told his girls not to shoot. Terrible lack of sportsmanship.

sez to me this coach has the brain of an irate warthog

can him or shoot him..the world would be a better place without him.

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First, isn't there some kind of slaughter rule where they could have called the game at 50 - zip? Second, who would schedule a game against a team who's players have learning disabilities? The Atheletic director's - both of 'em - should be the one's apologizing. That's just awful.

yeah & not just learning disabilities. they had some serious shooting disabilities as well ;)

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Even the worst of rivalries have a little respect for each other. Running up the score to 100, not even letting them have a basket. I'm not one of those crazy sportsmanship guys, I like rivalry and I like to win. But Christ, that's not winning, that's not embarrassing the other team, that's embarrassing yourself, especially given the circumstances with the losing team.

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High school basketball coach fired, says he's not sorry for 100-point win

Associated Press

DALLAS -- The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize "for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."

Kyle Queal, the headmaster for CovenantSchool, said in The Dallas Morning News online edition that he could not answer if the firing was a direct result of coach Micah Grimes' e-mail disagreeing with administrators who called the blowout "shameful."

Queal did not immediately answer phone messages or e-mail from The Associated Press.

On its Web site last week, Covenant, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy.

"It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition," said the statement, signed by Queal and board chair Todd Doshier.

Grimes, who has been criticized for letting the game get so far out of hand, made it clear in the e-mail Sunday to the newspaper that he does not agree with his school's assessment.

"In response to the statement posted on The CovenantSchool Web site, I do not agree with the apology or the notion that the CovenantSchool girls basketball team should feel embarrassed or ashamed," Grimes wrote in the e-mail, according to the newspaper. "We played the game as it was meant to be played. My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent, and it will not allow me to apologize for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."

A phone number for Grimes could not be located by The Associated Press. The Dallas Morning News said Grimes did not respond to their repeated e-mail requests for a telephone interview.

A parent who attended the game said 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.

Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime.

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 one-sided. There is, however, "a golden rule" that should have applied in this contest, Edd Burleson, the director of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools, said last week. Both schools are members of this association, which oversees private school athletics in Texas.

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The Feel-Good police win again.

This country we live in has become such a wonderful place.

Ordinarily I agree with you with the sissification of the schools as it refers to competition. But what is proved by beating a handful of kids with disabilities & dyslexia 100-0? Winning 50-2 is no less of an accomplishment or show of superiority. They're not any less of dominant winners and the other team isn't less of hapless losers. But I see little accomplished in humiliating children to the point where it will make national news. It's not like they have some BCS system that rewards you for margin of victory.

Imagine an NFL team committing late hits & cheap-shots on a QB or a kicker when your team is up 49-0 with a minute left to play.

There's a line between being a dominant winner and a classless jackoff who has no sense of what is at stake. Particularly since the game's victory or loss was clearly not in danger.

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Ordinarily I agree with you with the sissification of the schools as it refers to competition. But what is proved by beating a handful of kids with disabilities & dyslexia 100-0? Winning 50-2 is no less of an accomplishment or show of superiority. They're not any less of dominant winners and the other team isn't less of hapless losers. But I see little accomplished in humiliating children to the point where it will make national news. It's not like they have some BCS system that rewards you for margin of victory.

Imagine an NFL team committing late hits & cheap-shots on a QB or a kicker when your team is up 49-0 with a minute left to play.

There's a line between being a dominant winner and a classless jackoff who has no sense of what is at stake. Particularly since the game's victory or loss was clearly not in danger.

Im not saying it was ok what he did, but if the school had a problem with his actions, they should have fired him immediately, not after getting media attention. I have a huge problem with people making employment decisions based off of media attention.

Everyone involved in this should be held for ridicule, including the coach for the crappy team. If he didnt pull his team off the court after being down 59-0 at halftime, he is just as bad as the coach running up the score.

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This statement shows that the coach is just wrong. To have some honor and be respectful, he should have put in the back-ups and had them take as much time off the clock as possible - not shoot 3-pointers in the fourth quarter!

A parent who attended the game said 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.

What message does it give to the girls on his team about how you treat others, especially since they're at a Christian school with certain values. Yes, I know it's a competition, but as others have pointed out, there was no doubt of the outcome. A win of 59-0 would be just as much a W as 100-0.

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The coach of the winning team is a balless prick.

I'm all for winning and I dislike the "pussification" of sports to a degree, but christ come on, shooting 3 pointers in the 4th quarter, running it up against a team with various challenges, that is plain pathetic.

You just don't do what that coach and his players did.

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The coach of the winning team is a balless prick.

I'm all for winning and I dislike the "pussification" of sports to a degree, but christ come on, shooting 3 pointers in the 4th quarter, running it up against a team with various challenges, that is plain pathetic.

You just don't do what that coach and his players did.

GOB, what would have happened if the winning team let up a little bit when it was 70-0, and the other team came back for the victory?

That's why you never let up.

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If the starters are still out there, then yeah its wrong. But if its the scrubs that are running it up, I'm completely fine with that. I played for a pretty good HS Lacrosse team, and there were games where we could of scored 50 goals. After 10-0 coach would put the scrubs in, and let them have there fun. How are you gonna tell a scrub who rides pine all year, to go in, but don't score. Come on.

We'd end up winning those games like 18-3 or so.

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where they could have called the game at 50 - zip? Second, who would schedule a game against a team who's players have learning disabilities? The Atheletic director's - both of 'em - should be the one's apologizing. That's just awful.

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