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Date: 2009-01-25 03:06 pm (UTC)
It is different here, in strange and complex ways. While I haven't read the [livejournal.com profile] childfree post, I have seen references to this particular game and its outcome. So I can't speak to what's being said in the comments there, but I can try to explain the general context a little better.

The idea is roughly that (a) yes, a team should play to win; but (b) if a team is so dominant that it's clear there's no way it can lose a game, it is ungentlemanly to run the score up against the other team so dramatically as to rub their noses in their pitiful inadequacy. We see this attitude surface even in the realm of professional sports, where it really is ridiculous; in recent years my local (American) football team has been reviled for 'running up scores' even though anyone who's followed the sport knows that they're not doing it to humiliate other teams.

In this particular instance the situation was exacerbated by the fact that the winning team came from an explicitly Christian school, so that the team's behavior was seen by the school itself as being in conflict with its formal values. Playing against this team would be a matter of charity for all the schools involved -- no one ever expects them to win a game, or even be able to compete in a meaningful way -- so that it looked particularly bad for a Christian school to have broken the unwritten rule about generosity to a team that isn't up to the contest.
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