Saturday, March 29, 2008

ESPN.com...Watch the women's tournament too!

In the middle of march madness a basketball fan would be attracted to espn.com for up to date information on college basketball. I have recently found in my trips to this major media site the large discrepancy between coverage of men's and women's college basketball. While the men have a 24+ point font headline and a large picture, the women have about a 10 point font headline with a picture about one-eighth the size. A few weeks back when the brackets came out it took me over five minutes to find the link to the women's bracket, while the men's was easily accessible right when you accessed the site. Also, the women's games can be found predominantly on ESPN2 and a few very select games are found on ESPN. The men's games are constantly aired on CBS and ESPN. Although the men's tournament is probably more popular and more attractive with the athleticism and slam-dunks, the women are very worthy of coverage. How many tournament trackers know Candice Wiggins of Stanford scored 44 points in a tournament game?? That was half of her team's 88 points...No male player has done that this year in the tournament... There are so many exciting games, with last second shots, major performances by top players, and a great athletes competing for a national championship. So when you get a chance flip the channel to a secondary station or click on that ten point font and you might just be amazed at what you see.

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