Book of Selfish Sports Records

Phil Mushnik writes a piece about the annual National High School Sports Record Book, and points out a few selfish facts that the book leaves out. Here are a few:

And so the next edition will note that the girls record for points scored in a basketball game belongs to Epiphanny Prince, who scored 113 for Murry Bergtraum HS in a game against Brandeis. The book will not record that the final score was 137-32.

While the book currently notes that Cheryl Miller is the record-holder, having scored 105 points against Riverside Norte Vista HS in 1982, it does not provide the final score. It was 179-15.

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Back to the record book: The most TD passes in one football game is 10. Clifton Davis did it for Mississippi's Sardis North Panola, in 1990, against Coldwater High. The final score does not appear. It was 95-0. Seriously.

The 1996 edition has a picture of Californian Chad Bickley on the cover. Chad holds the record for 3-point shots made in a game. He scored 60 of his 89 points on 3-pointers. Fabulous!

The book doesn't tell us that Chad's coach should have, during the second half, let someone else play instead of Chad. After all, Chad's Valley Christian Academy team, as the book doesn't tell us, beat New Cuyuma, 130-48.

It also doesn't tell us that Chad's coach was Stan Bickley, Chad's father.

This kind of self-centered pummeling of a weaker opponent has no place in high school sports, and the coaches involved should be ashamed...though they likely won't be.