Monday, June 07, 2010

Men & Women in/on Sports



Don't we have enough "Fairwaves" for sports in the sense of Title IX, WNBA, LPGA, etc.? So then if we're getting close to parity in the availability of sports played by males & females (assuming none of the "questioning" or other nebulous "genders" are involved), why is there an inordinately greater amount of money spent on sports played by males? In my dept. at work, the biggest Suns fan was a woman -- so even women prefer to watch men play.

I think Haines would have succeeded if he let Burnett just hang herself by saying the game was "handled so beautifully that it was a more memorable moment for its failure." Even though he was right, he shouldn't have said it. And unfortunately -- given our litigious culture -- I would bet money he's out of work in a few weeks.