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...player makes $3 million each year. A professional softball player is lucky to make $5,000 for a summer’s worth of work. Obviously, the markets for each sport are drastically different, but the better question is, why are audiences so much more captivated by men than women...
...seed Stanford in the 1998 NCAA tournament. Men’s basketball has yet to win even one title. Not to mention that women’s basketball only became a varsity sport at Harvard 20 years after the men. So where’s the love for the women...
Even in The Crimson, the newspaper for which I write, we oftentimes see more focus put on men’s sports than women’s. I doubt this is ever on purpose. Simply put, the average person will think of men playing sports before women. In fact, at our beat draft two years ago (the time when each sportswriter can pick a sport they want to follow for the entire year), softball was the last sport picked, while baseball was secured in the first round...
...thought it was pretty darn successful for both the men and the women,” alpine coach Tim Mitchell said...
...both the alpine and Nordic squads, the women led the charge, posting historically high finishes on both sides. The team highlight of the season was when the women’s Nordic team took second in the classic event at the regional championships, led by junior Cara Sprague’s sixth-place finish...