Thursday, August 6, 2009

Poor WNBA...


I think pro basketball is the only area in sports where female athletes get a bad rap. As such, the WNBA is a joke compared to the NBA. Does anyone watch their games? They have players coming off of the bench making 45k a year! And now THIS?! I was watching Colin Cowherd's show "The Herd" on ESPN the other day and he had a debate going about the WNBA players. He said that these female athletes, PRO athlete's would get "creamed" by an elite high school BOYS basketball team if they ever played each other! Not that they would just lose, but get CREAMED even. Okay, I have a problem with this. I mean, how does a pro athlete even get compared to a high school one? If I were a pro athlete and was compared to a high school athlete I would be ANGRY, LOL! But it gets worse, Colin's premise was based on the fact that the players on the WNBA are, of course, WOMEN. He said that women cannot be as athletic as men, EVEN BOYS! Now to be fair, he qualified it and mentioned things like height and upper body strength as the biggest discrepancy between the two sexes in terms of playing good B-Ball. But I just can't believe that basketball skills mainly rest on those two criteria. There is also quickness, skills, and stamina. Chick basketball players have ALL of that, buddy. Well, the debate will go on and on until a game occurs to prove either opinion, and that is one game I'd REALLY like to watch!

1 comment:

  1. Colin Cowherd is an idiot, and the fact that his rantings are taken seriously is a problem with sports in particular and the country in general.

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