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To: Mr. Blonde

The truth is that people don't go to watch men's sports either -- except football and basketball. Women's basketball gets some audience. For nearly all other sports (except special circumstances like Lacrosse at Johns Hopkins, or hockey at University of North Dakota, etc.) it's all friends and family in the stands. The main problems with Title IX are that (a) football is not exempt -- it costs a lot of money but it also makes a lot of money, it pays for itself oftentimes and subsidizes the other sports as well as requiring an extraordinary number of players and (b) cheerleading is not in the mix -- that would help alleviate the disparity, and it should be added to the list of sports just because it really operates as one.


106 posted on 01/01/2006 1:34:26 AM PST by AmishDude
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To: AmishDude

"The truth is that people don't go to watch men's sports either -- except football and basketball. Women's basketball gets some audience. For nearly all other sports (except special circumstances like Lacrosse at Johns Hopkins, or hockey at University of North Dakota, etc.) it's all friends and family in the stands. The main problems with Title IX are that (a) football is not exempt -- it costs a lot of money but it also makes a lot of money, it pays for itself oftentimes and subsidizes the other sports as well as requiring an extraordinary number of players and (b) cheerleading is not in the mix -- that would help alleviate the disparity, and it should be added to the list of sports just because it really operates as one."


Hmmmmmmm...you've never been to the Spanish Moto-GP hugh?

How about a Brit SBK race?

just kidding....
Happy New Years FRiend.


110 posted on 01/01/2006 2:04:33 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: AmishDude

And it is the feminists who will fight cheerleading becoming a sport all day long.


113 posted on 01/01/2006 6:21:15 AM PST by Mr. Blonde (You know, Happy Time Harry, just being around you kinda makes me want to die.)
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