This article was mainly about coverage in today's sports world. The author writes about how after the 1996 Summer Olympics (known as the "year of the woman") women are not covered in the media. We hear about Tiger Woods and the NBA, but rarely do we hear about the women's score in the final soccer game, and rarely do people buy tickets far in advance to see a women's soccer game or basketball game. It is unequal in first, coverage, and second societal interest. Our society is drawn to watch men's sports and we all idolize a male athlete in muscular strength or ability. The sports world is changing as the article states, and we must all change with it. Women are becoming increasingly more competitive and famous for their physical abilities in individual and team sports. Title IX has had somewhat of an influence on the interest of women's sports, but people are still more interested in what men's teams are doing. Men will always be physically stronger than women, given two of the strongest of each gender. Men can perform better then women in sports because of this fact, making them "heroes" of their sport, and society wants to see heroes. I think the lack of coverage on women's sports is due to the fact that women are still trying to gain equal status in this "man's" world of competitive sport. No matter how much women accomplish, people are reluctant to see women's sports equal or competitive to men's sports. It is time we choose to find out the latest score in the WNBA or the women's soccer team. We must show our interest in the already successful, yet not famous world of women's sports.
-Melissa J.
