From linsanity to bracketology….
I am disappointed that, after filling out the men’s brackets, the sports-fanatic and politically savvy Obama did not take a few minutes to have ESPN broadcast him filling out the women’s brackets as well. Of course this assumes that women’s college basketball would have even figured in his consciousness or in that of the ESPN producers on this occasion.
Indeed, I’m willing to bet that if you were to find ten sports fans who dutifully filled out the men’s brackets, at least nine of them would concede that they did not do the same for the women’s.
Not to mention that instead of commanding network coverage in prime time, like the men’s championship, the women’s was relegated to cable last night, which guaranteed only a fraction of the viewership. Yet the TV executives who are responsible for dissing women’s college Basketball in this fashion are the very ones who wonder why they can’t get better ratings for the fledgling women’s professional league – the WNBA.
More important, though, what does all of this say to female college athletes, or to young girls who we encourage to have the same interest in sports as young boys…? It says that male chauvinism, sexism, and discrimination against women in sports not only still exist but are blithely tolerated.
Sorry girls….
(NCAA (Women’s) Championship, The iPINIONS Journal, April 8, 2009)
That was three years ago. And, sadly, little has changed since then. Except that I suppose women should be glad that President Obama reserved a few minutes after filling out the men’s brackets this year to fill out the women’s too.
In any case, here are my picks:
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