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Originally posted by voodooman@Dec 2 2002, 06:35 AM
cj,
Thats exactly right.
They are saying that most money from their budgets goto
High Profile Sports, i.e. Football, with the Title 9 role,
they schools MUST by law provide atheletics for women
as well as men, so what money is left goes to say, womens
vollyboll, intstead of mens wrestling, so they close the
mens wrestling down completely.
This really isnt a big deal, with the exception that they dont
even have PRO womens vollyball, or any other sport besides
olympic sports (which really are not supposed to be pros)
and womens basketball.
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womens volleyball is probably a bad example, because its one of the only womens sports in the world which gets any coverage. actually, maybe that's just an australian thing, its a really popular sport here.
Our largest breakfast cereal company sponsors our Australian Womens Volleyball team, who won the last olympic medal, as does a large car company and lots of other profile sponsors. I got the same impression that womens volleyball was popular in usa, especially california ??
Ok, so its not a 'pro' sport, that brings profit from showing 10 games a week ... but neither is equestrian or show horse events - these are all sports that operate on 'clubs' with 'championships' and 'world championships' etc.
Just like swimming ... there is no 'pro' swimming, but there are competitions on all the time around the world, with good enough profits off tv rights worldwide.
I have always maintained that I don't believe women should be given advantages just because they are women, but there's lots of ways to look at it.
1) how will womens sports ever take off if they arent given money to get going?
but, they've had 30 years, is that long enough?
2) Because mens sports have had so much of a head start, womens sports need a little favoritism, to give the chance of an even playing field.
but, at what cost? the cost of *more* popular mens sports?
Do you have an example of a mans sport which has had to be closed down due to funding going to a womans team?
I find it hard to believe that any mens sport which was worthy of keeping would be eliminated by a womens sport that wasn't a better opportunity for profit ... or are feminists really that powerful over there???!!