My wife brought this up last night at dinner. She ask me to define sportsanship...so I pointed out to her that sportmanship has nothing to do with the ineptitude of your competition. If it is not your intent to denegrate, humiliate, or to decimate your opponent, then let the game be as it may. But if your opponent lies down...should you lie down with them?
I have never been a big supporter of these little league groups that hand out trophies to everyone that competes. Kids are much more astute than we give them credit. Why would you want a trophy to remind that you failed? They know the difference between getting first place and finishing dead last.
IMHO they should have terminate the losing coach immediately. Why subject your "team" to a monumental ass kicking? What did they learn from it?
Side note: In Asian cultures, failure to excel to hardly tolerated. Their school systems make ours look like jokes. They have an extremely competitive education system from kindergarten. There is something to be said about the positive aspects of this.
Sorry about the rant...but the issue is deeper than a high school girls basketball game. It is symbolic the systemic wasteland the pervades our culture.
