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Quirkiest Basketball Failures I

Part one of a three-part series.

Written by Failure magazine staff   Filed under Sports

January 13, 2009: The Covenant School, a private Christian prep school in Dallas, Texas, defeats visiting Dallas Academy 100-0 in a high school girls’ basketball game. More than a week after-the-fact, Covenant’s headmaster posts a message on the school’s Web site which says, “It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened,” and goes on to note that Covenant will make “a formal request to forfeit the game, recognizing that a victory without honor is a great loss.” Nevertheless, Dallas Academy cancels its scheduled rematch with Covenant, and withdraws its eight-member girls’ team from the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools league. Prior to withdrawing, Dallas Academy—which specializes in teaching students struggling with “learning differences”—hadn’t won a girls’ basketball game in four years.

October 11, 2008: Golden State Warriors’ guard Monta Ellis is suspended by his team for 30 games after the organization discovers that a severely sprained ankle he suffered during the offseason wasn’t incurred playing basketball but instead sustained in a moped crash. The suspension costs Ellis approximately three million dollars in lost salary. The moped accident took place just a month after the 22-year-old signed a six-year $66 million contract.

January 19, 2004: Chester Brewer, 31, a.k.a. Da Bull (mascot of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls), is arrested for allegedly selling marijuana from his car after police find him in possession of six ounces of the drug. Brewer was not wearing his bull costume at the time of his arrest.

See also: Quirkiest Basketball Failures II
Quirkiest Basketball Failures III

Published February 16, 2010.

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