AFTER A 100-0 GAME

Here is a story I saw on line from the USA Today.

Dallas Academy is a small Texas school that offers small classes for children with "dyslexia, dysgraphia and other learning differences," according to its site, which also says 80-90% of its students go on to college. Despite the small size, the school offers a full athletic department -- baseball, six-man football, soccer, volleyball, softball, golf and basketball.

The girls basketball team, drawing eight players of the roughly 20 girls in the high school grades, recently faced Covenant School and lost big. 100-0.

But the team isn't hiding out in mourning. They joked about the game and talked about their team bonding for a video segment on the Dallas Morning News' site. They hope to see a Mavericks game from Mark Cuban's suite.

Covenant has issued an apology and asked to forfeit the game, saying the Dallas Academy team with its resilient attitude "clearly emerged the winner."

And in the spirit of forgiveness, Dallas Morning News columnist Jacquielynn Floyd praises the "sweet, sensible, smile-and-get-on-with-it" attitude of the Dallas Academy team but says it's also time to quit piling on Covenant for failing to hit the brakes. "Covenant surely knows they lost this one," she says. "Why keep running up the score?"