AT LEAST THEY COULD BEAT THE 1999 SMHS FOOTBALL TEAM

The academic director of Lakeshore High School in Detroit is crying foul after their women's basketball team lost a game by a score of . . . get ready for this . . . 115-2. Here's the story, from ESPN.

What does this mean to me? Breaking down of gender barriers, that's what! Women can be just as vicious and unsportsmanlike on the field of play as men often are.

Regardless of the gender, I'm not a big fan of such vicious competition, and I think that no matter what the coach or athletic director says, the girls of the Walkerville High b-ball team should have taken account of the situation and gone a little easy once the game was out of reach. We've seen so many movies about youth sports where the youths themselves come to enlightened understandings about competition, teamwork and sportsmanship. Heck, we even saw that in Bring It On (okay so we also saw a car wash scene in that one). My point is that the Walkervile girls should have known better than to run it up to a 113-point win.