Hard Sell On The Women's Game

The women’s NCAA Tournament is taking a strategic center stage on ESPN this week. Monday and Tuesday night, they play the regional finals, obviously positioned to get maximum exposure when hoop junkies are catching their breath from the previous Sweet 16 weekend.

And every year, like clockwork, I check in to the women’s game, just to see.

And every year, I shrug my shoulders and say “eh.”

I’m not really ANTI-women’s basketball. I’m just anti “you really need to watch because they have such great fundamentals.” I wonder why women’s basketball fans feel the need to push their sport on men who otherwise don’t watch.

Why do they care? Its like soccer fanatics. Why do you CARE if anybody else likes your sport?

Look, I love golf. Golf gets modest ratings in the sports landscape. If a Masters tournament is really good, it’ll get about a 9 rating. A little more if Tiger is involved. That rates somewhere around the current NBA Finals number, less than the Final Four, less than the World Series, and only about even with a random mid-season NFL Sunday.

And I’m fine with that.

I don’t lecture people on how great golf is. If you play, you’ll watch. If you don’t, you won’t. And I could care less which side you fall on.

So if you love women’s basketball, super. Enjoy. But if you feel compelled to come knocking door to door like Jehovas Witnesses, prepare to be mocked.

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On the other hand, I do find my species (men) to be amazingly hypocritical when it comes to denigrating the overall caliber of the women’s game, compared to the men. I mean honestly, did you WATCH the UCLA-Memphis game?

Here’s the brutal numbers…

UCLA – 35% shooting
Memphis – 31% shooting
UCLA – 20-39 from the free throw line
Memphis – 2-17 from three-point range

And a combined 35 turnovers!

Just remember this, in case you start getting mouthy with some women’s basketball fan.

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Czabe,

Thought you should know, in an AP article about suing the authors of "Game of Shadows" Barry Bonds' well-spoken lawyer is quoted:
"Barry is doing fine," Rains said. "He's had a great spring as everyone knows. His bat speaks for himself and he's not going to speak on this action and this book."

“Bat speaks for himself?” Doesn’t he mean the “bat speaks for ITSELF?” Do they make Grammaroids?

REACT: No kidding. Too bad Barry’s bat couldn’t testify FOR HIM in that grand jury room.

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I must have missed this one while I was on vacation last week. Ho-lee shit! And just remember, they cancelled Playmakers, because they said it was too unrealistic.

Uh huh. Riiiiiggggghhhht!

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- The brother of Pittsburgh Steelers safety Tyrone Carter had his sentence for driving with a revoked license increased from six months to five years because he failed to report to jail on time.

"I would have done the same thing," Tyrone Carter said of his brother's decision. Winning the Super Bowl meant "we finally made it together."

REACT: Blink. (blink…) Stare. Jaw drop. Stare.

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Here’s your Pic O’ The Day!

REACT: The captions practically write themselves on this one.