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I’m running a little behind today due to an abnormally chilly day today.  Temps dropped below freezing overnight and since there was a little rain, it took me awhile to get inside my truck this morning.  Luckily I live in the Austin area and the weather will be back near 70 by the weekend.

I had a lazy weekend and rarely left the house although I did make it to my daughter’s basketball game on Friday night.  They played one of the top teams in the district and got crushed 69-11.  While I was at the game a buddy of mine text messaged me the score of the girl’s high school game that ended up making national news.  100-0.  Short story is two private school girl’s basketball teams played and the final score was 100-0.  A few days after the game the head coach of the winning team was fired.  This was interesting to me because I used to coach a girl’s team at a private school (in the same league as these two teams) and blowout scores were not unusual.  I’ve been on both ends of the blowout as well one year beating a team 77-8 and then losing 92-34 to another.  Both games were equally difficult to coach.  When you’re getting run out of the gym, it’s tough to keep your kids motivated to not quit.  On the flip side when you’re facing a lesser team it’s tough to rein your team in and have them do things opposite of what they are used to.

I’ve read a few articles about the game and there seems to be some differing accounts of the game (whether they continued to press and jack up 3-pointers).  I did manage to find the coach’s website and his take on the game.  He mentioned they only have 8 players on the team which makes it more difficult to keep your best players off the court.  That said you can find ways of slowing your team down by making them pass the ball 10-20 times before taking a shot and have them sit back in a zone on defense.  The thing that intrigues me about all this though is the reason the coach was fired.

On its Web site last week, the Covenant School of Dallas, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy. “It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition,” said the statement, signed by Kyle Queal, head of school, and board chair Todd Doshier.

I found a website with scores from some of the other games each team had played leading up to this one.  Covenant beat teams 79-33 and 71-19 earlier this year and Dallas Academy lost 55-6, 66-4 and 49-7 coming into this game.  Evidently it’s Christlike to beat a team by 50 but not 100 and did the coaches of the other teams that crushed Dallas Academy get the axe as well??  I wonder if the score was 105-7 would this still have gotten all this attention.

Speaking of blowouts, I’ve recovered from my runner up finish to Lucko in last week’s Mookie.  I hate 2nd place, it sucks so bad and I’m tired of all the near misses in the Mookie.  Tonight will be try #150 in The Mookie (or somewhere around there) for me.  One hundred and friggin’ fifty times I’ve played and still haven’t won.  Pretty sad.  Meanwhile Lucko continues to add titles at a fast pace.  He’s won 2 out of the 3 tourneys this year so far and he’s closing in on the most titles won ever which is currently 7 by Surflexus.  I’m still trying to dig up some new questions for Lucko’s latest profile so if you have any ideas leave me a comment or send me an email.

I haven’t played any online poker since last Wednesday so I’m looking forward to tonight.  Don’t forget to tune into BuddyDank Radio (and possibly video) while you play The Mookie and Dookie on Full Tilt tonight.  Good luck!

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