Did you hear about the two private christian school girls basketball teams in Dallas, Texas that played a game and the bigger school won the basketball game by 100 to 0? Well the girls on the winning team decided they needed to apologize to the other team for running the score up like that. That’s what you call ‘good sportsmanship’ and I’m sure their parents are very proud of them for issuing an apology like that.
You would think that their coach would be proud of the but no…………he was anything but proud of them.
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 Covenant School, 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.
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.
That’s just what I was thinking when I read about the story. That wasn’t very ‘Christian like’. I have heard of sore losers but never sore winners. The coach should have been fired after sending out that e-mail. That makes me even more proud of the girls and the school too. Now both teams are winners if you ask me.