Sunday, April 12, 2009

Team didn't run up 100-0 score?

http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/basketball/girls/news/story?id=4062181

My main issue here is trying to decide who is the more pathetic -- this Micah Grimes "head coach" piece of slime, or the parent who refused to give the entire game tape to the media, claiming it would somehow be taken "out of context" (the desperate cry of last resort for every idiot who's ever said something dumb to the media). How exactly does an entire game get taken out of context, precisely? But I shouldn't be outraged -- not from a culture that glorifies grown men getting inside a cage and then beating another man's head into the canvas for 30 seconds before a stoppage comes, or from a culture that first videotapes and THEN puts on Youtube thousands of brutal fights between high schoolers. 100-0 and "it was just another game" and "we don't want this taken out of context" are just par for the course these days.