DEFINING "LOSER"

The worst beating I ever witnessed on the ice in a hockey rink was 13-3. (Excluding Matt “Spar With Me” Niskanen’s forays into fisticuffs)

That 13 goal clobbering was watched first-hand when, some 27 years ago, my BCJHL club tried to take on Dominic Hasek and the Czechoslovakia National Under 20 team during a tour of Western Canada. (Bad night for the Razorboy.)

Also with hockey, back in September Slovakia’s womens team drummed Bulgaria’s female pucksters 82-0. But that was Eastern European women – they don’t shave their armpits.

However, never have I heard of such a despicable rout as the one that has made headlines all over North America.

Covenant, a local Christian school, pummeled Dallas Academy’s girls 100-0 in basketball .

One Hundred to Zero!

"It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened," the head of the school said Thursday on The Covenant School's Web site. He added that Covenant has made "a formal request to forfeit the game recognizing that a victory without honor is a great loss."

Dallas Academy has eight girls on its varsity team and about 20 girls in its high school. It is winless over the last four seasons. The academy boasts of its small class sizes and specializes in teaching students struggling with "learning differences," such as short attention spans or dyslexia.

Way to go Covenant. You really put the screws to them! What’s up next – a whuppin’ of those blind kids at Perkins?

A witness said some spectators and an assistant coach were cheering wildly as their team edged closer to 100 points. My god, what else pumps their tires - kicking puppies and torturing kittens?

It really makes you wonder what soon- to- be- former Covenant coach Micah Grimes’ answer to that question “What would Jesus do?” would be… Take no prisoners? Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead?!

I hope Grimes gets what’s coming (An old fashioned pink slip) because one person had the opportunity to show some class, sportsmanship, leadership and mercy – and didn’t.

Forget about measuring success on a scoreboard, Micah Grimes and any of you dolts who thought 75-0 should be enthusiastically applauded and pushed to 100 to zip, you lost big in basic human decency.

My suggestion to you (beyond prayers), brush up on those Golden Rules – unless of course you yourselves have a hankering for a hundred point loss – Remember, “Do unto others….