Women and Sports
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by Kayos
As most people know, women being involved in sports is very minuscule. The reason being is we have too much of an emotional brain wire to comprehend or even make a decent contribution to them. I beg to differ. Most of my female friends are very active in sports. Very few of those friends can actually hold a decent conversation. Only one I know of is proficient in sports as much as I am. Yet, men (generally speaking) won't allow the ladies access.
In a way I can see where they are coming from. Take Dana Jacobson. She's an anchor on ESPN2's First Take and I don't like her presence that she portrays while being on-air whether it is television or radio. She holds her own but I think she's more of a reporter than a sports commentator. Linda Cohn. Excellent sports journalist but not much of a commentator. Those fru-frus found on the sidelines are horrible. I find myself always wondering what in the devil are they asking the coaches.
Now those women that make for great commentators, the females who actually know the sport and can converse the inner workings of the game are few and very far between. Robin Roberts before she moved to network television, excellent. Cheryl Miller, Sports anchor for TNT, excellent. Stacey Dales, Kara Lawson, and a few select others are great commentators. We need more of these females because they know the mechanics. We don't need the female that is there to look pretty. We need a woman that knows what type of question to ask and why she's asking it.
So why is it that the females that know their sports aren't allowed the sideline pass into the fraternity? Has it become such a male dominated society that women can't be considered for the position? I've seen the community and breaking into it is a hard one and literally on the who you know basis. Women have the vast knowledge of sports if they want to have it. It doesn't take much for her to study the game. I've studied football since college. I lacked the information on how to break into sports journalism. The position for females in sports are limited to basketball because of the female counterpart and football so the men have someone to look at during pre-game, halftime, and post-game. This isn't fair to the females that can observe and watch the game with as much intensity as most men do. Does sports have to be limited to the male perspective?
