Posted on 01/03/2007 9:14:28 PM PST by Valin
For years, women's teams have been honing their game by practicing against men. A panel says the custom violates the spirit of gender equity.
Practicing against men has been a women's basketball tradition for more than a quarter century, designed to allow women to push themselves against bigger, stronger opponents. "It's good for us because it makes us better," Gophers freshman Ashley Ellis-Milan said. But last month, the NCAA's Committee on Women's Athletics (CWA) called for a ban on male practice players. It concluded the custom violates the spirit of gender equity and Title IX, the 1972 federal law banning sex discrimination in sports.
On Monday, Division III administrators at the NCAA annual convention in Florida will consider two proposals to limit the use of male practice players, action that could influence both Division I and Division II athletics.
College coaches uniformly denounce the proposed ban. Michigan State coach Joanne McCallie called the committee recommendation -- which states "this approach implies an archaic notion of male preeminence that continues to impede progress toward gender equity and inclusion" -- political correctness gone awry.
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Ain't life grand?
And isn't it MUCH better when the proverbial chickens come home to roost?
The irony of a bunch of feminists telling some Title IXers they can't play with men is just SO rich I can hardly stand it.
Nancy Lieberman's take on this---
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/columns/story?columnist=lieberman_nancy&id=2701428
Andregg, 57, grew up in California, in a different era for women's athletics. "For people in my age category, it's kind of a slap in the face," she said. "If you haven't lived through the days before Title IX, if you've lost a sense of history, you do not understand the fight we've been through."
Old women wanting young women to keep fighting their fight.
I wonder how much money ESPN is losing by broadcasting all those Womens Basketball games that NOBODY WATCHES!
They don't let me read the Red Star at work, as all it does is get me mad, and send me off on a rant, but one of the guys I work with showed me this. I just had to share.
Personally I rather watch LA Lakers than LA Sparks of WNBA I am a woman
Or Oakland raiders for the football even they sucks this season LOL!
I recall reading something about womans football a couple of years ago. There's something that's just so WRONG about that. Wrong in so many ways and on so many levels.
The women play good fundamental basketall - but sorry, they can't jump over a Ritz cracker - unless you have some relationship with a girl on a team, there's no reason to watch. You can see more exciting basketball watching a boy's junior high team.
It's not a complete oxymoron. Where women excel over men such as grace and beauty their "sport" trumps men. Gymnastics and ice skating are two examples.
I agree with you with traditional contests of speed and strength the female version is a second rate joke e.g. WNBA.
ESPN would hit the ratings trifecta if they'd air naked women mudwrestling.
Two words...Helen...Thomas!
They hardly even discuss the Sparks in LA anymore in the media--They almost do it only out of some sense of gender equity.
But, but, but, methinks they protest too much. If men and women are absolutely equivalent, completely interchangeable, why should the NCAA care if they're practicing against one another? =O Caught you with your intellectual pants down, NCAA!
I tried, I really did. WNBA sucks big time. I'll stick with men's college basket ball and NBA.
I have a hard time putting into words the feelings I get when I read stuff like that; it's like the old women who think they "fought the fight" are furious because the young girls benefited from their "work," do you know what I mean?
It's like they don't want to let it go and are bitter because the young girls aren't as pi$$ed as they are about it.
I just cannot put it into words correctly.
Well, I liked it. I love seeing liberals get bitten on the butt by their own "value driven" agenda.
Talk about just desserts.
I don't mind watching a fundamentally sound women's bb team. I refuse to watch the NBA thugs anymore, much as I like basketball. They've lost so much of the real game that they can't even beat the damn Lithuanians. Maybe if the women wore a lot less clothes they could jump higher. Hmmm.
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