Word: sportsmanship
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...course plausible sources for problems surrounding the game, the single most fundamental part of this game has gone untouched in the blame game: the players. Unless there is a fundamental change in the way our high-school athletes understand and are held accountable for their examples of sportsmanship, incidents like those in Dallas will continue to propagate concern and disgust to the wrong areas...
...score at halftime was 59-0, and by the end of the third quarter, Covenant was up 88-0. While Covenant Coach Micah Grimes—who was fired the week after the game—was obviously not an example or promoter of healthy competition and good sportsmanship, a man who saw no problem with the “wide” margin of victory, neither he, nor the scheduling of this lopsided match-up, should be seen as the main problem in this event. It was the players of the Covenant girls’ basketball team...
...course, Coach Grimes was not blameless. Nor were the parents and fans, who acted as cheerleaders and affirmers of the lack of sportsmanship. It is all too easy to forget the actual players on the winning team, with normally almost any problem in youth sports being thrown onto the adults involved. While many problems do arise from overzealous coaches and parents who let ideas of grandeur make them ruthless, if we must exculpate the players from this sort of negative event, how can we ever credit them when they perform admirably? If we are to honor players for their good...
...rules and protocols for when the scoreboard should be turned off. While these may be useful in younger leagues where the youth players are less able to discern and control their style of play, no rule like this is necessary for high-school competition. A level of maturity and sportsmanship has to be required of the players, and not the rulebook...
...seemingly opposite and gruesomely perfect ends of the score (100-0) that thrust this particular game into the limelight. While the absurdity of the score is substantial, this game, with or without the ink printed about it, is another instance of the absence of sportsmanship. The Covenant School of Dallas has since issued an apology for the game and asked for it to have its own team forfeit the victory to Dallas Academy, but in the end this was never about who won or lost, but how they played the game...