Posted on 01/05/2006 5:49:56 AM PST by wallcrawlr
It is. It has lost money from the very beginning, but what the heck, it is only a few million (1/10th of any given star player) to keep the whole thing going and they write it off as advertising expense.
"Now, let's try this again in basketball. The high school boys will probably outscore the WNBA pros two to one as well."
Do you really think those big lezzies would lick all those boys?
No-checking to avoid overdrawn accounts? ;-P
Easy. A top boys high school team would defeat the WNBA champions without any difficulty - the women could probably outshoot them, but the boys would have 6'8" power forwards putting on a dunking exhibition. It would be one unstoppable fast break after another.
it is bad enough for boys at that crucial age. they hit puberty at different times and half of my son's team is prepubescent and the other half post and they look like men playing side by side with boys. when those little ones get checked, they go flying!
Very good point. While it is true that female athletes are capable of doing things that would have been world-record performances in men's sports 80-100 years ago, there is a major world of difference between men and women from a physiological standpoint.
I would have to say that figure skating and gymnastics are more of an art than a sport, since you don't play defence and scoring is done by judges.
Ping!!
That happened to me in Junior high football. I was prepubescent (and undersized at that!), and when some of the more developed boys hit me, I literally flew through the air! The funny thing is, I really enjoyed it! It was neat to be hit that hard, and, with all the padding, not get hurt.
Yes, but those are also "sports" where the outcome is entirely subjective -- which often leaves the spectators wondering if the results are fixed in advance.
Not sure about figure skating, but a LOT of the "art" in gymnastics has gone out of the sport in recent years with the new changes in the Code of Points, which heavily reward skills and combinations of them. What used to be beautiful floor ex routines for girls are now very little but several tumbling passes.
The reason I now say that auto racing is a sport is that, Danica Mania aside, women almost never make it to the highest levels. Not that the corporate sponsors haven't tried. To me, that says that there must be more strength and endurance involved than appears on the surface.
"A crowd of more than 2,000 fans packed the 1,700-seat Gardens Arena in this town of about 1,800 on the Canadian border. "
Overcrowding is a serious problem. There needs to be an investigation into the Bush administration to determine why Bush's choice for crowd control let this happen.
Rove Must Go!!!!! /sarcasm
"Do you really think those big lezzies would lick all those boys?"
"They would clean the carpet with 'em......"
LOL
Sounds like a Pac-10 football game.
I bet the first lesson in Equestrian is to not look down.
Some people who saw both teams opined to me that the girls could easily beat the boys. I had to inform them the boys would have beaten the girls by a score of about one hundred and twenty to thirty. The boys team was poorly coached but had some good height and some good to excellent athletes. They were much taller, quicker, faster, stronger, and aggressive than the girls. And more skilled on average.The girls did have one first team all-state player who would have done alright for herself.
My conclusion is that even without the ideological factor thrown in by femininsts, most people have no idea how superior athletically boys are to girls after the early ages. There is the occasional super female (Flo Griffith-Joyner and some others), but on average the physical differences regarding athletic ability between the sexes is very noticeable even before the teens.
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