((HT: Dallas Morning News))You've all heard the story by now...
Bottom line is that some high school athletics teams are better than the opponents on their schedule. When the talent level is as disparate as it was when Dallas Academy lost to the Covenant School ((pictured, cbs11tv.com)) 100-0, the whole world knows about it or finds out about it soon enough.
After the game on January 13, Covenant posted a statement saying they regretted the incident- calling it shameful and an embarassment. Their 100-0 win didn't reflect a "Christ-like approach" to competition.
Dallas Academy people were chapped over the idea that Covenant kept the defensive pressure on late in to the contest. Covenant Head Coach Micah Grimes then challenged the school's assessment by saying in his own e-mail posting:
"...I do not agree with the apology or the notion that the Covenant School girls’ basketball team should feel embarrassed or ashamed,” Micah Grimes wrote in an email sent to The Dallas Morning News. “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.”
After the posting Sunday, Grimes was fired. Kyle Queal, the school's Headmaster, went on to say that Grimes "only represents himself." Queal also could not relay the notion that Grimes' firing was a result of his open disagreement with the school hierarchy.
Two-and-a-half hours after Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News wrote about the disagreement, he had to do a re-write.
Here's Grimes website and his response in full...
And the original piece from KTVT, re-worked by CNN...
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