In Connecticut, it's ok to win--just not by too much.

• Author: Applebome, Peter
• Position: OPINION - Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference - Brief article

In May, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which governs the state's high school sports activities, came up with a rule that penalizes coaches whose teams stomp all over their opponents. Under the new policy, coaches have to keep their margins of victory under 50 points or they face a week's suspension. "We regard running up the score as an unsportsmanlike activity," says an official there. But not everyone agrees that blowouts are a problem. "This is like one of those things where they want everyone to win, every game to end in a tie ... " says the coach of a...