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I’ve been to ball games like this & I always feel bad for the other team.
But they should not be embarrassed they were so good they whooped their butts that bad.
The winning team should not be playing that team in the future or they should go to a higher division or the other team should go to a lower division (if possible).
It’s not fun to win like this, but it’s still a win. One team just wasn’t good enough.
We don’t need this kind of guilt.

Was their cheating? Was anything done against the rules? If so, then the winners should apologies.

But if they we just better, and whipped this team fair an square then they should hold their heads high for an amazing victory.

…And the other team should consider field hockey instead.

That’s life, folks. Grow up.

The coach of the losing team should be the one to apologize.

Running up a score 100-0, and leaving in your starters til the 4th period, against any team (not just players with learning disabilities) is just not good sportsmanship. Period.

I learned from my coaches growing up that if you are winning too easily, you should take the opportunity to work on something. Make it challenging. That is good advice, always.

I can’ imagine the hand-shaking at the end. That would have been difficult.

I’m glad the winners realized their lack of good judgment and apologized.

As Obama said yesterday concerning bipartisanship…”I Won”….

It’s the Obama Way afterall…..

Maybe we should give everyone a blue ribbon….maybe we shouldn’t even keep score….

Face it. Sometimes in life, you get your ass handed to you. This was one of those times. Good practice for when you’re clearly outmatched. It may even happen again in their adult lives.

And so what if the winning girls were trying to bump up their stats so they could get noticed for a possible recruitment? I say good for them.

Take every opportunity that comes your way, and let the whiners whine. Nobody will care two days from now, and the only thing that matters is your stats and sat SAT scores — nobody cares at the admissions board if some looser only scored a 10 on that test either.

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What’s wrong with you people! It doesn’t matter what party you’re from. There is something called SPORTSMANSHIP and it used to be part of what made us proud to be Americans. After, I don’t know, 75 to 0, maybe, just maybe they could have pulled some of their starters out? These aren’t our enemies, these are our children! This isn’t a war for crying out loud, we don’t have to get all nuclear…it’s a freaking girls high school basketball game!
The coach of the winning team should be ASHAMED of himself/herself. This is a no brainer. The people who have commented that this was righteous are small, small, petty people and should be ashamed as well. Disgusting.

If anyone wants to know why we can”t fight a war to win it anymore – this is exactly why – the demasculization of our society. Emotions and feelings have replaced common sense and reality.
Sensitivity and compassion block rational reality when carried to this idiotic extreme and it is done deliberately to control the masses.

Masses have been moved and the country will be compromised on sovereignity because of the touchy feely reach of liberalism and its main weapon – political correctness which now has reduced science to emotion and false criterion (global warming nonsense etc.)
Anyone who believes that obama was elected based on anything other than the same touchy feely mentality is a victim of exactly that and doesn’t even realize it.
This is just anythor way of someone playing the victim and getting apologized too when they should realize they can’t cut it -get better or move on to something else.
We live in a world that has been Oprahized folks -except our masters and the terrorists don’t really believe it -just the mind numbed robots.

USING BASKETBALL AS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE? Yeah, an experience in LOSING. And what the he// lessons have they learned in 4 years of losing? The proof that the “learning experience” is a stupid concept and a set up for failure and TRUE loss of self-respect is the fact that the loser teacher and the loser players are complaining about the winners. This is psycho liberalism at it’s best. Maybe the lesson learned here is: LEARN HOW TO PLAY REALLY WELL AND BE COMPETITIVE, FIRE THE IDIOT COACH and finally: You think your “learning experience is fun? Wait until you feel what it’s like to win.

If you don’t play to win then why does it matter that you lost in your “learning experience”?

HEY FOLKS, BELOW IS AN EMAIL I SENT TO THE REPORTER Scott Gordon OF THIS STORY and both coaches and Headmasters of both schools:

Sirs,
I cannot agree less with Covenants decision to forfeit the game.

The stated policy of the Dallas Academy is to use basketball as some sort of learning experience where any kind of results are acceptable. (at least, this is the understanding of one of the interviewed Dallas Academy girls)
This does not serve any child or young adult well regardless of disability. Thankfully this is not Covenant’s problem.

I am disturbed that Dallas Academy has taught these children that learning to be competitive is somehow wrong, and now Covenant is somehow the wrong doer. Granted, 100-0 is an eyebrow raiser, but Covenant students train in sport and the learning lesson of competition and sportsmanship. The Covenant coach may be wrong in prudent judgment. But surely, Dallas Academy coach Mr. Civello is the worst offender for not properly preparing these young people to play basketball. Even a young lady on the Dallas team stated that “we are here to have fun not to win”. If that is the case, I’m sure that in four years they have never had fun losing, and have only learned that losing feels sad, disappointed, and unfulfilled. How often must they learn that lesson? For those Dallas kids, this case simply magnifies the issue so much so that no one can ignore the “un-fun” being had these past four years. If the Dallas players are truly there for “fun”, using basketball as a “learning experience”, they should not feel in the least concerned about the score. But they do.

Schools are to educate and prepare children for the environments into which they will grow or find themselves. Might it be that Dallas Academy has failed to account for the realities of their students disabilities, and also failed to instruct the players in the nature and joy of competition? It is a very central human desire to achieve. It is also very fun to do. Dallas Academy has on its website: “Confidence is restored. Frustration is lessened. Barriers are overcome. Learning takes place. Success is possible at Dallas Academy.” I cannot reconcile this with what the basketball coach or the school has done there.

A for Covenant, I think that you send a very poor message to your students who I am sure seem to have the benefit of a coach who cares to develop talent and encourage winning attitude. Forfeiting the game sends a patronizing message to the winners, and implies they had malice in their effort.

Please reconsider the punishment both school’s are inflicting upon their basketball teams and students. Dallas Academy should fire Mr. Civello. He is unfit to teach sportsmanship and the art of basketball. Covenant’s coach Grimes needs a lesson in prudence and diplomacy, but he certainly is preparing Convenant’s students much better to face life successfully.

Respectfully,
RD

You can get their emails from their school sites too.

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