Sometimes I just don’t understand sports media.  The entire sports world is making an uproar because one High School basketball team was too good for another team.  The Dallas Covenant High School defeated Dallas Academy 100-0, in a girls varsity basketball game.  Afterwards, the Covenant School apologized for “running up the score” although the coach did not.  Outraged, the school then fired the coach.  This entire process does not make any sense to me.  You hire a coach to win and when he wins, however large the margin, you fire him?  To me it sounds like the High School is trying to lose basketball games.  If the coach puts up 100 points, he should be congradualated, not fired.  If the coach keeps the other team from scoring a single point, he should be rewarded, not lose his job.  The sports media keeps saying that they “ran up the score”, but I think that if they are that concerned with it, then put a mercy rule in High School basketball.  There is no point in firing a coach for doing what he was hired to do.  ESPN the magazine senior writer LZ Granderson said that the school “ran up the score” and “the coach could have told his players not to shoot.”  To me that is flat out stupid.  What basketball coach in their right mind would tell his team not to shoot.  Honestly, I think it would have been even more humiliating for Dallas Academy if the Covenant school had not even shot it, because that would show that they had no respect for their competition. The Dallas Academy school has not won a game in 4 years, and they should never even have had a girls basketball team, and puting up a huge margin of victory on them is not uncommon.  I just think it is outrageous that a coach would be fired for doing his job and winning basketball games.