Pitching A Shutout

The Covenant School and Dallas Academy girls’ basketball game on January 13th was so surreal, that a coach was fired because of it. It wasn’t a close match where a coach said or did something he will regret. It’s what the coach didn’t say that got him fired.

You see, Dallas Academy has only 20 girls in the entire school and eight play basketball. They haven’t won a game in four years. So expect the unexpected—Covenant thrashed Dallas Academy 100-0 on January 13th. A shutout in basketball? I almost didn’t believe it when I read it either.

The interesting thing about the game was Covenant’s coach’s response to the game when he said he will not apologize stating, “My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent, and it will not allow me to apologize for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity.”

Your values and beliefs would not allow you to run up the score? 100-0 sounds like you ran up the score a little bit. It just goes to show that sports is more than just how you play the game—it’s the sportsmanship that proceeds and this is why I believe coach Grimes of Covenant School got fired.

My source for writing this story can be found here.