Over the past week, two of the biggest womens basketball stories got some national press. I am a huge fan of Sports Center, and watch it religiously, and there has never been two important womens basketball stories in the same week.1. UCONNs womens team breaks their own record of most games won in a row with 71. Im guessing no one even knew that.
2. Baylor's Brittney Griner punched another girl in the face during their game last week. Griner is a 6 foot 8 inch freshmen women, who is basically a man playing in a womens league.
What one of these stories is bigger? You would think the UCONNs womens team with 71 wins, maybe, or Griner who is the greatest womens basketball player basically ever to live.
For the first time that I know of, two womens stories on the same Sports Center, thats unreal.I think its kind of funny to think that the only time that a womens basketball story is in the news is if records are broken, or the best player does something stupid. In mens sports everygame of the pervious day or week is talked about on the news, but not womens sports.
The Griner punch is something that will be talked about for the rest of the season and the rest of her career. If that happened in a mens game, yes they would be suspended, but it wouldnt be talked about for years to come. When Ron Artest and the Pacers got in a fight with the Pistons, not a lot of people remember that and it was a flat out brawl.
What do you think about the UCONN womens basketball team and Brittney Griner punch?
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After hearing about the Griner punch I found myself concerned at the violence in women's sports. First there was the soccer player from New Mexico who yanked another player's ponytail and pulled her to the ground, and now this. Even though these are only two instances they are extremely violent and I can't help but wonder why this is happening. That sort of unsportsmanlike conduct should never happen.
Like you said, I think its very interesting that violence in women's sports is remembered much more than violence in men's sports. This might be another divide in women's and men's sports: people don't expect women to act out so violently.
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