I wonder how much money ESPN is losing by broadcasting all those Womens Basketball games that NOBODY WATCHES!
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.
I tried, I really did. WNBA sucks big time. I'll stick with men's college basket ball and NBA.
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.
No amount of money can replace the thrill of political correctness!
Not to be offensive to other folks on the site, but Women's basketball should change it's name because it ain't "basketball". Let's call it "turn over".
The only women's team sport worth watching is Volleyball.
Viewership and ratings have nothing to do with defining an activity as a sport, but does have everything to do with defining it as a business.
If you don't enjoy watching women compete, so be it, but don't denigrate these athletes by saying their hard-work and love of competition doesn't rise to the level of "sport."
And for the record, this decision about not being allowed to use male practice players is ridiculous, and an example of the ill-conceived social engineering that the feminists in the baby boomer generation keep trying to foist on the rest of us. Unfortunately, they are firmly entrenched in academia, and that includes the NCAA.
I wonder how much money ESPN is losing by broadcasting all those Womens Basketball games that NOBODY WATCHES!
But ESPN has to fill those 72 hours a day with some programming.