Girls Basketball Follow up

The girls basketball coach that beat a school 100 - 0 was fired and this was his statement:

"We played the game as it was meant to be played. 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."


Does that make sense to anyone? I'm trying to figure out if 100 - 0 isn't running up the score, then what is? Someone please help me with this.

This question is Shaqtastic

Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:12 pm EST

The search for stupid questions

By MJD

I just finished up watching the NFL Network's wire-to-wire coverage of Super Bowl media day, and if anything too crazy happened, it was never presented on the NFL airwaves.

Some guys did a little bit of dancing, and Deion Sanders got to show over and over again how cool he is, but there was nothing too out of the ordinary. The fellow in drag (pictured below, courtesy of Nick Friedell) never made the air. At least, I didn't see (s)him.

So to find a truly absurd question, we've got to go back to Monday. Pro Football Talk relays that during Kurt Warner's media session, someone asked him how it felt to "be older than both head coaches in the Super Bowl and ... how it is to play for a head coach younger than him."

And that might have been a reasonable question, if, you know, Kurt Warner wasn't 37 years old and Ken Whisenhunt wasn't 46. Warner was born in June of 1971, and Whisenhunt was born in February of 1962. I'm not a doctor or anything, but I'm pretty sure that makes Whisenhunt older.

You can judge for yourself if Warner looks even in the slightest bit like he might be Ken Whisenhunt's age. I don't see it. Whoever asked the question remains unidentified, which I think is a good thing, because I'd rather not judge a guy on his lowest moment. At least, I'd hope that was one of his lower moments.


http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/The-search-for-stupid-questions;_ylt=AsgAny_.d0op1w_QYTEYFQA5nYcB?urn=nfl,137087

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Beyond Heartless -- Girls playing basketball

So when I saw the headline that a girls basketball team beat their opponent 100 - 0 I was NOT that surprised. It's not the first time I've seen this type of thing; and in all honesty, girls basketball is plain pathetic. I feel confident that five of me could beat most girls D-1 basketball teams by a margin greater than 100 - 0. Anyway, as I browsed a few more articles I started wondering how exactly this makes it to the news?

Like most girls basketball games, including WNBA games, there is no cameraman there or a journalists present to report the outcome, so someone had to alert the media. Does the winning coach call the local newspaper to report their great victory, or perhaps a proud parent? Then I thought well maybe it was someone from the losing team that wanted to report the abuse they just suffered. So I opened the article, trying to find a quote from the losing coach to see his/her reaction to the game. I didn't find one, but I found some facts that were much more interesting/disturbing.

• The losing team has 20 girls in the entire school, and 8 of them are on the team
• They have been winless over the last 4 seasons
• "An assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points"
• The winning coach "told the coach of the losing team how much [he] admired their girls for continuing to compete against all odds"
• The played full-court press and were shooting 3's in the fourth quarter.
  

And most disturbing of all:

• The losing school "specializes in teaching students struggling with learning differences".

Now when there are only 20 girls in the entire school and the school is for "special people", can you not somewhat conclude that the girls playing ball were a step behind in more than just athletics. And to imagine a coach " wildly" cheering on this beatdown.

People think I'm heartless but I could never pull this off.

JD's BIG DAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JD.

Not sure how old you are but who the hell cares. Have a great day.

More Knocking the Jocking of Tebow

Bigger Stronger Faster

No this post isn't about Casey. So this is a documentary about steroids (movie title is same as the blog post title). One thing I realize about documentaries is that they all have an angle and should hardly be considered a "documentary." I'm talking about Michael Moore or Mr. "I destroy the planet as much as anyone, but make big profits off of telling people to go green" (aka. Al Gore). I'm very skeptical that they tell both sides in a very fair view. So this movie is similar that he has an angle, but he's very out in the open about it. I guess its more that he wants you to think. I'm already talking too much. But I streamed it over Netflix so if you know someone with an account (aka me) you can watch it for free. But you must be warned, I got a stern warning from the wiff for a few select words that start with "F." But its really only the guy that has biceps bigger than my head. So if you are worried about needing to talk to your bishop Josh, you can mute those five minutes. On IMDB, its rated a decent 7.8.

WARNING: You'll get biceps like this if you watch this movie.