Girls' Basketball Team Penalized For Wearing Pink 'Make A Wish' Uniforms

When the Burke High School girls' basketball team came out in pink uniforms Monday night, they hoped to score big for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. What they got instead was a foul and two points for their opponents.

The Burke "Bulldogs" sported pink tops and bottoms on Monday to be auctioned off to benefit Make-A-Wish, a charity that grants wishes for kids with life threatening diseases.

After the second quarter though, the visiting team's athletic director pointed out that Burke had broken a uniform rule -- the Nebraska School Activities Association requires the home team to wear white.

The Bulldogs were slapped with a foul and the opposing team, the Columbus Discoverers, banked two points and eventually won the game.

"Coach Law has a big heart," Burke head coach Luke Lueders told the news outlet of the assistant coach's charitable initiative. "He was trying to do a nice thing, and then this happened."

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