The worst case of sore-losing.

If you are an avid news-watcher, you may have seen the coverage of the all-girls school Dallas Academy and their loss to The Covenant School's team, 100-0. If not, you can read about it here.

It seems that Dallas Academy, a school known for its work with disabled students, put together a small basketball team of girls who play for fun - not because of skills, experience, and a drive to play competitively - played against The Covenant School's varsity basketball team in the varsity league. The Dallas Academy girls, having no previous experience or skills, were immediately dominated by the other girls. However, rather than giving scores to Dallas Academy, The Covenant School's team continued to play their best, as did the Dallas Academy girls did, and won 100-0. Around a week later, the Dallas Academy coaches approached the Dallas Morning News and had an article published about the insensitivity of the other team for beating their team by the large number of points. In response to this, The Covenant School posted an official apology to the Dallas Academy team for unsportsmanlike behavior!

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! I could understand if snide and rude, degrading remarks were being said about the other team, or if they were snotty about their win right after the game and treated the Dallas Academy girls with disrespect and needing to apologize for it. But to seriously ask of someone who treated the girls with the same level of respect as other teams by giving their all throughout the game, just like they would with any other team, to apologize because they didn't ease up for the poor girls who couldn't play basketball well and possibly let them score a few points or at least not score as many themselves is simply an insult to sports! If the girls from The Covenant School really did let the Dallas Academy girls make a few shots, or at least make sure that none of theirs made it in, it would be a great insult to the Dallas Academy, as they are being given free points and having points thrown because the winning team already knows that they will beat the girls, even if they throw them some points. To me, that would be something worth apologizing for, since it would be arrogant and preposterous to even think of doing in a varsity basketball league. In addition, The Covenant School also asked the league to change it to a forfeit and remove the score from their records. What a disappointment that a school who knew that they were not skilled enough to play real basketball signed up for a Varsity league and ran to the press crying because the other team didn't go easy on them so they wouldn't lose so badly.

I think that the Dallas Academy should be made to apologize to The Covenant School for running to the press about such a trivial matter and for making them forfeit a game in a serious league between competitive teams when they are barely an amateur team playing for fun. The news of this has spread nationally and has publicly embarrassed this school into posting an unnecessary apology to this fake basketball team. It really disgusts me. I am seriously writing to both schools to tell them my opinion and to request Dallas Academy to apologize to The Covenant School for not handling this privately, or even trying to before going to the press, and for forcing an apology and wasting their time and standing within a real league because they wanted to put a bunch of unskilled girls into a real competitive league.