I recently logged onto http://www.espn.com/ to find a current event regarding women in sport for this assignment, and literally did not find one woman or woman related articled or link on the home page. All the headlines are male related articles and are regarding people such as Alex Rodriguez and Jason Strasburg. The only females on the page are Denver Nugget dancers who if you click on will only lead you to the pictures of the week. This came as a real shock to me to the point where I thought espn was only for male athletes and sports, but then Iclicked on the link "more sports" and saw that WNBA was actually an option. Also, I found out that the womens basketball team of the University of Connecticut was on the ESPN.com page yesterday, but only to honor them for winning 71 games straight. Win or lose, the mens college basketball teams are always on there especially during march madness, and for women to be honored and recognized only after such a massive accomplishment is plain wrong. Women should be athletically recognized on a daily basis just like men, and society doesn't realize the inequality that is portrayed when it comes to women in sport.
Anya de Leon
KIN338 Tu/Th 9:30am
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