gnawitall
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Post by gnawitall on Jun 21, 2024 3:45:50 GMT -8
My newsfeed is just littered with WNBA stories. To use a modern day expression, 'please watch our league without us asking you to watch our league.'
I have been facinated with how women's tennis gets the biggest draws (no research, just assumption) but not so much in other pro sports.
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jun 21, 2024 6:54:48 GMT -8
My newsfeed is just littered with WNBA stories. To use a modern day expression, 'please watch our league without us asking you to watch our league.' I have been facinated with how women's tennis gets the biggest draws (no research, just assumption) but not so much in other pro sports. Mine too. It seems that Caitin or Angel or Sabrina or Kelsey is "breaking the internet" with something every 30 minutes, either taking shots at other players or complaining about how underappreciated they are. And when did what players wear to the games become such a big deal? Sucks being an out-of-touch old guy. Wait, no it doesn't, because I don't care about X or Twitter or Tik Tok or any of that nonsense, or the WNBA or the NBA in particular.
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Post by ag87 on Jun 21, 2024 7:37:51 GMT -8
My newsfeed is just littered with WNBA stories. To use a modern day expression, 'please watch our league without us asking you to watch our league.' I have been facinated with how women's tennis gets the biggest draws (no research, just assumption) but not so much in other pro sports. I'm going to go neanderthal here. Not sure if it's a fact that women's tennis has the biggest ratings, but if so, it's because women look better playing high-level tennis than in WNBA games. My example - went to Tempe for a weekend in or about February 2008. The Beavers were in a baseball tournament when ASU still had their field on campus. I didn't know it, but the ASU women's tennis team had dual meets against USC and UCLA on that Saturday and Sunday. I ended up watching more tennis than baseball.
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Post by rgeorge on Jun 21, 2024 11:02:13 GMT -8
My newsfeed is just littered with WNBA stories. To use a modern day expression, 'please watch our league without us asking you to watch our league.' I have been facinated with how women's tennis gets the biggest draws (no research, just assumption) but not so much in other pro sports. I'm going to go neanderthal here. Not sure if it's a fact that women's tennis has the biggest ratings, but if so, it's because women look better playing high-level tennis than in WNBA games. My example - went to Tempe for a weekend in or about February 2008. The Beavers were in a baseball tournament when ASU still had their field on campus. I didn't know it, but the ASU women's tennis team had dual meets against USC and UCLA on that Saturday and Sunday. I ended up watching more tennis than baseball. Great choice over watching that 2008 team! Folks may hate SC, but I'm telling you that going to school there was effing tough. And, it wasn't the high academic standards. Think of every goof ball HS guy you knew... at SC it appeared they all were attached to 8+, and it went up from there. UCLA, Pepperdine "visits" were just as distracting. It hasn't changed. My nephew is attending there in aerospace studies/engineering. Visiting is never a problem.
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Post by kersting13 on Jun 28, 2024 12:57:22 GMT -8
Is it wrong for me to admit that one of the reasons I watch women's sports because I like to watch good-looking, fit women compete?
I'm sorry if that's wrong, but it's a fact I'm willing to admit.
I'm 100% certain that a lot of women watch men's sports for the exact same reason.
Tennis is a wonderful women's sport to watch. As is volleyball. And even softball, for that matter. Track & field? Yes! Gymnastics ain't too bad! Basketball isn't the greatest IMO, but there are certainly a few eye-catchers out there. I've always been more attracted to "sporty" girls than "girly" girls.
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Post by rob85 on Jun 28, 2024 14:10:21 GMT -8
Wife of a close friend would go to the Prefontaine Classic with us for many years. Her ask was that the seats be close to the pole vault pit. 😃
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Post by ag87 on Jun 28, 2024 17:00:55 GMT -8
Wife of a close friend would go to the Prefontaine Classic with us for many years. Her ask was that the seats be close to the pole vault pit. 😃 I was sitting at the old east side of Hayward, in I think April 2016, watching the pole vault. Tommy Skipper is an Oregon high school legend. I think he set the US high school record while competing for Sandy in maybe 2002. He was very successful at u of o, despite being hampered by back injuries. As I understand, he gave up vaulting after college because he was never healthy. Anyway, this is four or maybe 8 years after he was serious about it. I read the next day the goal was to get a height that qualified him for the Olympic trials. I'm sitting next to a group of young women, early 20's? One says he was teaching and coaching at North Eugene HS. And all of these women are drooling. They were talking among themselves but I was embarrassed by what I was hearing. It was funny in a sense but I would not have ever had a conversation like that with one of my friends regarding the hottest female athlete you have ever seen.
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