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Knowing that your team that hasn't won a game in 4 years isn't going to be competitive is one thing. Expecting some team with zero clue about sportsmanship to repeatedly stomp on your throat is something else.
They are kids trying to live a quasi-normal high school life with normal high school activities like sports. I can't fault them for that.
I don't feel sorry for the losing team. I feel sorry for the winning team. Those girls are now going to get a lesson about sportsmanship from the national media, when they should have been getting it from their coach. And I don't think the exposure is going to make them feel like the basketball demi-gods that they apparently thought they were on that particular night.
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Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear.
The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
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