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Bites
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[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=-2]Title? What title? You’d never have known that a Sacramento basketball team was playing for a national title last week unless you happened to drive past City Hall. Where were the signs in the back windows of cars? Where were the full-color pullout sections in the Bee? Why is Bites the only one wearing purple in the office?
While KHTK Sports1140’s Monty ’til Midnight radio talk show has been pandering to the worst of misogyny by claiming that a WNBA title isn’t a real title, the Bee’s Marcos Bretón used his column to proclaim that the Monarchs’ title race isn’t important because it’s a “niche interest.” Meaning, he doesn’t care. Gosh, the television ratings and ticket sales don’t match those of the Kings, so it must not be real sports!
Bites thinks it’s time to take a bite out of sexism and point out that if the Royal Court Dancers were on the verge of winning a national competition, these guys would be all over that as a once-in-a-lifetime event. The same boys who think Pop Warner football is great fun don’t even know that the Sacramento Sirens have won three (or is it four?) national titles in a row--and if they did, they’d say it wasn’t important.
The Bee’s Ailene Voisin, quoting U.S. Basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman, notes that the NBA had pretty crappy ticket sales and television ratings when it had been up and running for less than a decade, too. And, by the way, Lieberman’s in the same Hall of Fame as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and John Wooden. So are Anne Donovan (coach of the Seattle Storm), Ann Meyers and Pat Summitt. Wanna bet that some of the women on this year’s Monarchs team are there someday, too?
Listen up, boys: Just because you don’t like the sport doesn’t mean it’s not a real sport. Bites doesn’t much care for hockey and can’t see why it’s on television but is smart enough to avoid slamming it in the presence of Mrs. Bites, who thinks it’s the best thing since canned beer. Grow up, quit whining and get used to sharing the playground.
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http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2005-09-22/bites.asp
Bites
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=+2]Pandering and gerrymandering [/size][/font]
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]By Bites [/font]
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif][size=-2]Title? What title? You’d never have known that a Sacramento basketball team was playing for a national title last week unless you happened to drive past City Hall. Where were the signs in the back windows of cars? Where were the full-color pullout sections in the Bee? Why is Bites the only one wearing purple in the office?
While KHTK Sports1140’s Monty ’til Midnight radio talk show has been pandering to the worst of misogyny by claiming that a WNBA title isn’t a real title, the Bee’s Marcos Bretón used his column to proclaim that the Monarchs’ title race isn’t important because it’s a “niche interest.” Meaning, he doesn’t care. Gosh, the television ratings and ticket sales don’t match those of the Kings, so it must not be real sports!
Bites thinks it’s time to take a bite out of sexism and point out that if the Royal Court Dancers were on the verge of winning a national competition, these guys would be all over that as a once-in-a-lifetime event. The same boys who think Pop Warner football is great fun don’t even know that the Sacramento Sirens have won three (or is it four?) national titles in a row--and if they did, they’d say it wasn’t important.
The Bee’s Ailene Voisin, quoting U.S. Basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman, notes that the NBA had pretty crappy ticket sales and television ratings when it had been up and running for less than a decade, too. And, by the way, Lieberman’s in the same Hall of Fame as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and John Wooden. So are Anne Donovan (coach of the Seattle Storm), Ann Meyers and Pat Summitt. Wanna bet that some of the women on this year’s Monarchs team are there someday, too?
Listen up, boys: Just because you don’t like the sport doesn’t mean it’s not a real sport. Bites doesn’t much care for hockey and can’t see why it’s on television but is smart enough to avoid slamming it in the presence of Mrs. Bites, who thinks it’s the best thing since canned beer. Grow up, quit whining and get used to sharing the playground.
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