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Girls Basketball — A 100-0 Shut-Out?!

January 26, 2009

I know that this story is all over mainstream news sources and is making its way around the Internet, but I just couldn’t resist writing about it. If you haven’t heard, a girls’ basketball team in Dallas beat out another team 100-0 in one of its recent games. That is, this team completely annihilated the other team, allowing zero points on the board. Of course the coaches and players involved received an immediate and intense reaction to this game. The school that won the game, The Covenant School, subsequently submitted an apology on their website, stating that “a victory without honor is a great loss.” This story has flooded the news in the last several days, likely due in large part to the “learning differences” of the Dallas Academy girls. The school that lost the game focuses on students who experience ADHD, dyslexia, or similar struggles. In fact, the Dallas Academy team has not won a basketball game in several years.

I guess I’m not sure what I think about this story. On the one hand, the girls on both teams (including the winning team) are probably taught to never give up. From what I’ve read, neither team did so. On the other hand, as a Christian school, Covenant must have thought that something should be done to make the game a little less of a blow-out. So I don’t know. Do you have a more developed opinion than I do? I would love to hear your thoughts on this story in the comments.