Coach not sorry for 100-0 win, gets fired

Coach not sorry for 100-0 win, gets fired

The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize "for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity."

Kyle Queal, the headmaster for Covenant School, told the Dallas Morning News that he could not answer if the firing was a direct result of coach Micah Grimes' e-mail disagreeing with administrators who called the blowout "shameful."

On its Web site, Covenant, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the outcome of its Jan. 13 shutout win over Dallas Academy. "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened. This clearly does not reflect a Christlike and honorable approach to competition."

A parent at the game said an assistant Covenant coach cheered wildly as the team hit three-pointers in the fourth quarter to edge closer to 100 points. Dallas Academy, with eight girls on the team and 20 girls in the school, specializes teaching students with short attention spans or dyslexia.

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Curry's ex-girlfriend killed in Chicago

A woman found shot to death in a Chicago apartment was a former girlfriend of New York Knicks center Eddy Curry and the mother of his 3-year-old son, Curry's attorney said Sunday.

A relative found the bodies of Nova Henry, 24, and her 9-month-old daughter, Ava, in their apartment near the South Side on Saturday evening, Chicago police said. Both died from multiple gunshot wounds. Curry's 3-year-old son was found unharmed at the scene.

Curry used to play for the Chicago Bulls.

-- A promoter for the Monster Truck & Thrill Show has died from injuries after an accident at the Dane County Coliseum, just more than a week after a 6-year-old boy was killed by debris while sitting in the stands at a monster-truck event in Tacoma, Wash.

The Dane County Coroner said 41-year-old George Eisenhart Jr. of Chardon, Ohio, died after an accident Saturday in Madison. A witness told the Wisconsin State Journal that Eisenhart walked in front of one of the monster trucks just as it was about to pass by him.

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