This is where sports can be bad.
The Dallas school is terrible, has been terrible, and always will be terrible. but you know what? Those girls get to put on a uniform and play two games a week. Many times that is good enough.
The Covenant team showed poor form in this score runup. They didn't get better doing it. They didn't learn anything from it. They simply got to be bullies for an evening.
A guy at my high school, who was a state caliber wrestler, set the school pin record (in time). It was against a girl who was wrestling in her first match. Do you think he is proud of that?
I'd much prefer to look back on my athletic career and be one of the girls who carried the opposing hitter around the bases last year (when she hit the HR, but got hurt...and her own teamates couldn't touch her, by rule), than any girl on this team.
Sports should be about getting better. High school sports should be about getting better, but also learning. No one in that winning lockerrroom learned a thing about sportsmanship.
__________________
"And I don't wish that girl any bad luck," he said, "but I hope she gets hit with a car."
- Tommy Lasorda
|