Tennessee Girls High School Basketball Teams Get Fined and Kick Out of Playoffs Trying to Deliberately Lose

The TSSAA removed Riverdale and Smyrna from the high school girls basketball postseason on Monday following a report from a high school referee in charge of their District 7-AAA consolation game held Saturday where he said that both schools “played to lose the game.”

Both Rutherford County schools were placed on restrictive probation by the high school association for the rest of the school year and probation for the 2015-16 school year.

Both schools were fined $1,500.

They were trying to lose to get a better seeding in the playoffs.

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If you are going to do this, don’t make it look so obvious:

The referee said “one time a Riverdale girl looked at one of the officials and gave the official a 3-second signal, wanting him to call three seconds on her. Smyrna stood in the lane as well to have us call three seconds on them.”

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  • Yesterday “Bag of Randomness” didn’t post when it was suppose to, and the same thing happened to LiberallyLean’s “Random Morning Thoughts”.  Weird.  Actually, this is the second time within a week that’s happened to me.
  • All the local news stations focused on that big rig dangling off a bridge.  KTVT reported the rescue effort was done by McIntyire Wrecker Service in Mesquite.  I’d like to know how much they charged for such a massive and dangerous operation, and who gives them the initial payment – TXDot, City of Dallas, truck owner, insurance?
  • Tonight’s ‘Modern Family’ will be worth watching just to see how the are able to pull off an entire show using FaceTime.  Funny thing about that show, one of the co-creators is Christopher Lloyd, who I thought was the one from ‘Taxi’ and Back to the Future.  But the show creator is a different Christopher Lloyd.
  • More shakeup at ‘The Daily Show’ – Jason Jones is leaving as well, but his wife, Samantha Bee, will be staying put.
  • I’d like to know who’s on Comedy Central’s short list to replace Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’.  Here’s my short list of people I think would realistically do it, in no particular order – Amy Poehler, Steve Carrell, Ed Helms, and Neil Patrick Harris.
  • Interesting tidbit I found on Reddit – “99 Bottle Of Beer” ends with “No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer. You go to the store and buy some more, 99 bottles of beer on the wall”‏
  • Stan Lee sketched a picture of Spider-Man for a young autistic boy.
  • The all-female Ghostbusters reboot will have a ‘Walking Dead’ influence.
  • Martian sunset Vine
  • Are McDonald’s Shamrock Shakes a thing in Texas?  This time of year I hear people from other areas in the U.S. mention them but I don’t ever recall seeing such a thing sold in Texas, and I use to eat at McDonald’s a lot.
  • Nearly 1/4 Of iTunes Users Listened To U2 In January
  • When Dale Hansen does his Unplugged segments, it’s probably the closest thing to an Aaron Sorkin character we’ll see in real life, complete with his flaws.  His latest over the Flower Mound White Power signs seems to be quite a talking point on local message boards.
  • Waffle House becomes an unlikely competitor to FedEx and UPS – Restaurant chain partners with Roadie, a startup described as the ‘Uber for package delivery’
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!
  • GIF – Someone’s reeling in a big tuna and a shark takes the tuna.
  • GIF – An Atlantic Goliath Grouper eats a shark as it’s being reeled in.
  • Friday at 5 p.m. on ESPN during Sportscenter, a short film on the local and legendary Von Erich wrestling family will air.
  • Meanwhile in Germany (it was built but never put to use) – Nuclear Power Plant Site Turned Amusement Park – The swing ride and climbing wall inside the cooling tower seems cool.
  • I thought it was pretty clever how the climax of ‘Marvel’s Agent Carter’s’ finale mirrored the ending of Captain America: The First Avenger with Peggy talking on the radio to a endangered colleague flying an aircraft.
  • The series finale of ‘Parks and Recreation’ was a lot more artsy than I would have expected.
  • In honor of ‘Parks and Recreation’ going off the air – Ron Swanson’s Pyramid of Greatness
  • Surprised this wasn’t already a thing – Canadian ‘freezeway’ could let residents skate to work
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