🧔🏼♂️"No one watches women's sports! If the little girls want to earn as much as manly men, they should get their numbers up! That's just like, economics man!"
But also...
Women's basketball viewership is growing faster than men's basketball, and the most viewed women's game on ESPN this year has *higher* viewership than the most viewed men's basketball game.
All the excuses are falling away. Just like we said that they would.
🧔🏼♂️"Well, pro basketball is about dunks! Very few women can dunk! If we lowered the rims, more people would watch women's basketball!"
🤦🏿♂️No. We just covered that more people are watching women's basketball anyway.
And the highest paid NBA player, who also just signed the biggest NBA player endorsement deal in history, is Steph Curry. Steph rarely dunks.🤷🏿♂️
Just watch the South Carolina vs Iowa highlights. Caitlin Clark is a generational talent. NBA players are fans.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tfh_CFs4jUk
@mekkaokereke Blake Griffin knows what’s up!
@seenigel I'm a South Carolina fan. They were a better team. But Caitlin Clark is incredible.
I wish the refs wouldn't have ticky tack fouled Aliyah Boston in the 1st half, but even if they hadn't, I still think Iowa would have won. Clark is just too good, and too competitive.
@mekkaokereke The frustrating thing is the urge to be sexist appears to be overriding their love of money. The last TV coverage contract the NCAA signed for Women's basketball was by every metric way undervalued.
They only allowed the Women's tournament to be marketed with "March madness" as of 2022.
They seemed to prefer to be sexist than to make money!
Nope. Not reading too much into it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=queQa1uMq8I&t=39s
And it's another missed opportunity. They would make *more* money if they focused more on the Black women in the NCAA and WNBA. The racial bias costs them money. In a way, they *pay* to do this.
@mekkaokereke there's going to be an interesting case in hockey in a few years: there's currently a young woman playing in a men's junior league in Europe who is absolutely creaming opponents. She is posting stats even better than last year's NHL number 1 draft pick, who played in the same European junior league.
Women can't shoot? Women can't play in a checking league? Pffft.
@mekkaokereke Nela Lopušanová, from Slovakia.
In 16 games played in the U16 men's league so far, she has 23 goals and 29 assists: an average of 3+ points per game!
https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/879313/nela-lopusanova
@mekkaokereke for folks that prefer to watch video instead of reading stats, here are a couple of highlights:
https://youtu.be/FSIEFChWpDU
She scored a Michigan goal on the tournament's heavy favorites, Sweden. The Swedish goalie's body language reaction was priceless: "How was I supposed to stop that?"
@predrag I suggested some time ago on Reddit that a good number of the competitive sports that young people play could be divided into classes by ability instead of by gender, and I was met with all kinds of hostility.
Admittedly, I don’t watch or participate in sports, so I could be completely wrong, but American Ninja Warrior doesn’t have a separate course for women, and yet…
@mekkaokereke I probably watch more women’s sports than men’s nowadays.
And more in person, too.
The tickets are still more affordable, but that creates this extreme rush where they are *really* hard to get. The games and matches sell out way faster.
A US Women's National Team versus England soccer match ticket is one of the most exclusive tickets in all of sports right now. So hard to get! They sold out Wembley in 15 minutes! For a friendly! Total pre-sale was under 24hrs.🤯
https://justwomenssports.com/reads/uswnt-england-october-friendly-sold-out-wembley/
It's still affordable for local teams (e.g. NWSL), but that might not last.
I like OL Reign, Thorns FC, and Angel City. I can't call myself a real fan though, as I still haven't been to a game in person for either club (pandemic), and don't watch every game of the season for either team. I'd fail the "So you're an OL Reign fan? Then name every goal scored this season!" test.🙂
I like certain players: Rapinoe, Rose Lavelle, and Olivia Moultrie. At age 12, Moultrie turned down an NCAA "offer" to play for free at UNC. Her Nike deal was more than tuition anyway.
@mekkaokereke How is this LSU-Iowa national championship game not in prime time???
I guess the one plus is a lot of very young girls can watch the game before their bedtime.
Yeah, ridiculous. I was expecting it to be on tonight, checked the times, AND IT WAS ALREADY ON!
Lame. Wanted to watch, but couldn’t because of other midday commitments.
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