We strive, enough of us do, to be the best. We strive to win. We strive to avoid defeat. Enough of us still do. Don’t believe otherwise.  The liberals have made efforts to shut that aspect of our nature down. Wherever you live, I am certain that you, when you were a child or your kids today in youth sports are told not to keep score, because the losers, it’s just not fair. They’d be humiliated, especially if one girl’s basketball team can defeat another one 100 to nothing. And let’s fire the coach who put that game together. It’s so unfair.  So let’s not keep score. Well, here’s the dirty little secret. The kids are keeping score. [Applause] You know they are. They don’t want to lose. They know what winning and losing is. They’re saying, well, why go out there and put on the pads and play football or T-Ball if the objective here is to not keep score. So they’re keeping score. They get in the car with mom and dad and they tell mom and dad:  Yeah, we kicked their butts tonight. Wait a minute, I thought you weren’t keeping score. They weren’t officially. They keep score. We’re competitive people. Adults are doing the same thing.

Covenant coach who beat Dallas Academy 100-0 is fired, Barry Horn, The Dallas Morning News

The Covenant School fired its girls basketball coach Sunday, the same day he posted a message on a youth basketball Web site saying he disagreed with school officials who had publicly apologized for the team’s 100-0 victory over Dallas Academy.

“I respectfully disagree with the apology, especially the notion that the Covenant School girls basketball team should feel ‘embarrassed’ or ‘ashamed,’ ” part of the post says. “We played the game as it was meant to be played and would not intentionally run up the score on any opponent. Although a wide-margin victory is never evidence of compassion, my girls played with honor and integrity and showed respect to Dallas Academy.”

Grimes said in his Sunday post that his team stopped applying full-court defensive pressure after the score reached 25-0 three minutes into the game, then dropped into a relatively benign zone defense and began resting its starters in favor of its three bench players.

Dallas Academy coach Andrew Lott agreed that Covenant stopped pressing at that point but returned with an alternate press later in the game.

“I am 100 percent sure,” said Lott, who estimated that his team was able to take seven shots all game…

Team that won 100-0 girls basketball game has seen enough piling on, Jacquielynn Floyd, The Dallas Morning News

No victory ever came at a higher cost than The Covenant School’s now-infamous 100-zip annihilation of Dallas Academy in a girls basketball contest last week.

What would otherwise have been an unremarkable contest between two little-known private schools has become an overnight global wonder, making the news as far away as Australia.

It’s a terrific, made-for-the-headlines story – a national ethics lesson, a rare chance to disparage arrogant victors and celebrate the long-suffering underdog. It’s a vindication for every kid who ever got picked last for a team or unnecessarily humiliated by an opponent.

After a 100-0 game, Compiled by Staff, USA Today

Dallas Academy girls basketball team talks about 100-point loss, The Dallas Morning News [VIDEO]

Dallas School Apologizes for Basketball Game Blowout, Scott Gordon, MSNBC

A Dallas school whose girl’s basketball team beat another team 100-0 has apologized, calling its win “shameful” and “a victory without honor.”

“It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened,” the statement said. “We humbly apologize.”

Academy basketball coach sees a win in 100-0 loss, Barry Horn, The Dallas Morning News

The game took place Jan. 13, on the road, against The Covenant School. Civello didn’t expect his girls to win. He never really does. His girls haven’t won a game in his four seasons at the White Rock Lake-area school, renowned for its work with students with a variety of learning problems. In most games, they haven’t come close.

The Bulldogs play, Civello said, for more than the final score. They play in hope of improving skills, learning teamwork and picking up whatever life lessons athletics may bring.

But they won’t be playing Covenant again this season; they canceled their Jan. 30 game against the team. After the game, Dallas Academy informed the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools that it was withdrawing its girls team from the league for the rest of the season.

“We just said, ‘The hell with it,’ ” said Jim Richardson, Dallas Academy’s headmaster.

School seeks to forfeit 100-0 win, AP, Rivals.com

A parent who attended the game told The Associated Press that Covenant continued to make 3-pointers — even in the fourth quarter. She praised the Covenant players but said spectators and an assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points.

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.”