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Title: (Dallas, TX) School Wants to Forfeit It's 100-0 Win
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URL Source: http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=903780
Published: Jan 25, 2009
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Post Date: 2009-01-25 10:29:36 by OliviaFNewton
Keywords: TX, Sports
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Comments: 17
DALLAS -- 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 Covenant School say they are trying to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory. "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened," Kyle Queal, the head of the school, said in a statement, adding the forfeit was requested because "a victory without honor is a great loss." The private Christian school defeated Dallas Academy last week. Covenant was up 59-0 at halftime. {snip} "I think the bad judgment was in the full-court press and the 3-point shots," said Renee Peloza, whose daughter plays for Dallas Academy. "At some point, they should have backed off." Dallas Academy coach Jeremy Civello told The Dallas Morning News that the game turned into a "layup drill," with the opposing team's guards waiting to steal the ball and drive to the basket. Covenant scored 12 points in the fourth quarter and "finally eased up when they got to 100 with about four minutes left," he said. 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 lopsided. There is, however, "a golden rule" that should have applied in this contest, said Edd Burleson, the director of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools. Both schools are members of this association, which oversees private school athletics in Texas. "On a personal note, I told the coach of the losing team how much I admire their girls for continuing to compete against all odds," Burleson said. "They showed much more character than the coach that allowed that score to get out of hand. It's up to the coach to control the outcome." In the statement on the Covenant Web site, Queal said the game "does not reflect a Christ-like and honorable approach to competition. We humbly apologize for our actions and seek the forgiveness of Dallas Academy, TAPPS and our community." Covenant coach Micah Grimes did not immediately respond to a message left by The Associated Press on Thursday. Queal said school officials met with Dallas Academy officials to apologize and praised "each member of the Dallas Academy Varsity Girls Basketball team for their strength, composure and fortitude in a game in which they clearly emerged the winner." Civello said he appreciated the gesture and has accepted the apology "with no ill feelings." At a shootaround Thursday, several Dallas Academy players said they were frustrated during the game but felt it was a learning opportunity. They also said they are excited about some of the attention they are receiving from the loss, including an invitation from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to see an NBA game from his suite. "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." Peloza said the coach and other parents praised the Dallas Academy girls afterward for limiting Covenant to 12 points in the fourth quarter. She added that neither her daughter nor her teammates seemed to dwell on the loss. "Somewhere during that game they got caught up in the moment," Peloza said of the Covenant players, fans and coaches. "Our girls just moved on. That's the happy part of the story."
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#1. To: OliviaFNewton (#0)
Mark Cuban's one of the good guys.
Any team that gets beat 100-0 deserves the defeat. Get real. It's a comtetive sport and if the children are blind they should try another sport.
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the american government is a disease masquerading as its own cure It's better to be lucky than good and he got lucky when he sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo! in 1999 at the height of the "tulip mania" of that time, the dot.com bubble. Had he waited even a year later, no one would ever have heard of "billionaire Mark Cuban." “I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
He knew when to 'fold'em.'
I think so too.
"And when you're looking for your freedom I don't think it was about the sport this time. It was about the bigger game.
"And when you're looking for your freedom Huh ? When a team fails to score after 4 quarters of play ... there was no game.
Now come on... think outside of the box here. Sports isn't the whole world. Sometimes a game is just a game. Sometimes it's not. Remember with the USA Hockey team won at the Olympics?? That win went far and above the scoreboard. It inspired a spirit. Maybe it's just me, but I think this was a cool thing to do. Turning the established way of winning on it's ear. I love it.
"And when you're looking for your freedom I think so too. Yes, a friend's son married a babe who dated him several years ago...she told me that she had no idea the jack that he had. Said that he was just a really, really right guy. What you see, is what you get.
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No one is getting killed, raped, kidnapped or abused...maybe we need more of this type Amen. :)
"And when you're looking for your freedom It was unsportsmanlike conduct.
Can you hear yourself ??? Can you read the idiocy you just wrote ??? The Sport was basketball. The team that couldn't even score 1 lousy point is guilty of "UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT by definition ! Go moralize with the green weanies !
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. Henry David Thoreau - 1849
The scoring team was the one I was accusing of unsportsmanlike conduct. 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. Can YOU understand that they were playing against a handicapped team? If the coach were right in his mind, he would have stopped the game before those mentally-handicapped people were delt such an embarrassing loss. THAT happens to be the way we play sports in Texas....with compassion and sportsmanship.
Well, that's where you're goofy ! The object (conduct) of the SPORT is to score. This squad shouldn't have entered the arena. They had no business being there at all. The team that scored 100 points conducted themselves as the sport demands of the participants. The coach of the losers should have had enough sense to play his team against another handicapped team, or a squad of dead people. The loser team was to basketball what queers are to marriage ... get it ?
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. Henry David Thoreau - 1849
#2. To: OliviaFNewton (#0)
#3. To: OliviaFNewton, *Humor-Weird News* (#0)
#4. To: lodwick (#1)
#5. To: Sam Houston (#4)
#6. To: lodwick (#1)
Mark Cuban's one of the good guys.
nobody seems to care
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can't find it anywhere
When there's nothin' to believe in...
~~~ guess?
#7. To: noone222 (#2)
Any team that gets beat 100-0 deserves the defeat. Get real. It's a comtetive sport and if the children are blind they should try another sport.
nobody seems to care
And you can't find the door,
can't find it anywhere
When there's nothin' to believe in...
~~~ guess?
#8. To: OliviaFNewton (#7)
It was about the bigger game.
#9. To: noone222 (#8)
Huh ? When a team fails to score after 4 quarters of play ... there was no game.
nobody seems to care
And you can't find the door,
can't find it anywhere
When there's nothin' to believe in...
~~~ guess?
#10. To: OliviaFNewton (#6)
Mark Cuban's one of the good guys.
#11. To: lodwick (#10)
(Edited)
Yes, a friend's son married a babe who dated him several years ago...she told me that she had no idea the jack that he had.
nobody seems to care
And you can't find the door,
can't find it anywhere
When there's nothin' to believe in...
~~~ guess?
#12. To: OliviaFNewton, tube boobs, all (#11)
#13. To: lodwick (#12)
I'll have to cop to catching some 'sodes of DWTS - it is kinda 'refreshing.'
nobody seems to care
And you can't find the door,
can't find it anywhere
When there's nothin' to believe in...
~~~ guess?
#14. To: noone222 (#2)
Any team that gets beat 100-0 deserves the defeat.
#15. To: Sarajevo (#14)
It was unsportsmanlike conduct.
#16. To: noone222 (#15)
Can you hear yourself ??? Can you read the idiocy you just wrote ??? The Sport was basketball. The team that couldn't even score 1 lousy point is guilty of "UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT by definition !
#17. To: Sarajevo (#16)
The scoring team was the one I was accusing of unsportsmanlike conduct.
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