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  • Talk about "promoting sports"...

    From The NOTBCS Guy@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 9 14:09:36 2023
    Of all of the NCAA championships that ESPN has the rights to, the only three "worthy" enough to air on ABC are
    FCS Football
    Women's Basketball
    and
    Women's Gymnastics
    (Mia Taxpayer, see if any overseas sportsbooks are taking bets on who will get more mentions in the gymnastics coverage - Suni Lee, or Olivia Dunne?)

    Speaking of which, I hope somebody told ABC not to expect anybody from either of the two HBCUs with women's gymnastics programs - Fisk and Talladega - as both are in the NAIA, and it's called the "NCAA championships" for a reason.

    Meanwhile, ESPN won't even air the men's gymnastics final; it's only on the NCAA.com streaming website. Of course, the fact that there are only 15 NCAA schools in the country (two of which are Division III) that even have men's gymnastics programs may
    have something to do with that.

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  • From Con Reeder, unhyphenated American@21:1/5 to The NOTBCS Guy on Fri Mar 10 00:04:16 2023
    On 2023-03-09, The NOTBCS Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
    Meanwhile, ESPN won't even air the men's gymnastics final; it's only
    on the NCAA.com streaming website. Of course, the fact that there are
    only 15 NCAA schools in the country (two of which are Division III)
    that even have men's gymnastics programs may have something to do
    with that.

    Thanks, Title IX!

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    a deep truth: many more folks need to be much less in touch with theirs.
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  • From The NOTBCS Guy@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 9 17:39:21 2023
    Meanwhile, ESPN won't even air the men's gymnastics final; it's only
    on the NCAA.com streaming website. Of course, the fact that there are
    only 15 NCAA schools in the country (two of which are Division III)
    that even have men's gymnastics programs may have something to do
    with that.
    Thanks, Title IX!

    I'd say something like, "Don't be ridiculous," but that pretty much hit the nail on the head. There are now four classes of Division I sports:
    1. Football & men's basketball
    2. The occasional "regional" men's sport (lacrosse, ice hockey, water polo) - well, that, and outdoor track & field at Nike U-ER, UH, Oregon
    3. The women's sports they needed to add to spend enough money to satisfy the Title IX types; there's a reason pretty much every halfway-decent women's volleyball school has its own women's volleyball arena separate from the basketball one
    4. The additional men's sports they needed to add so they have the minimum six, so it doesn't look like it's "football, men's basketball, and women's sports - the rest of you don't matter."

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  • From xyzzy@21:1/5 to unhyphenated American on Fri Mar 10 02:52:14 2023
    Con Reeder, unhyphenated American <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2023-03-09, The NOTBCS Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
    Meanwhile, ESPN won't even air the men's gymnastics final; it's only
    on the NCAA.com streaming website. Of course, the fact that there are
    only 15 NCAA schools in the country (two of which are Division III)
    that even have men's gymnastics programs may have something to do
    with that.

    Thanks, Title IX!


    I think this one is more that the sports audience prefers women in tights
    to men in tights.

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  • From Michael Falkner@21:1/5 to xyzzy on Thu Mar 9 19:38:51 2023
    On Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 6:52:18 PM UTC-8, xyzzy wrote:
    Con Reeder, unhyphenated American <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2023-03-09, The NOTBCS Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
    Meanwhile, ESPN won't even air the men's gymnastics final; it's only
    on the NCAA.com streaming website. Of course, the fact that there are
    only 15 NCAA schools in the country (two of which are Division III)
    that even have men's gymnastics programs may have something to do
    with that.

    Thanks, Title IX!

    I think this one is more that the sports audience prefers women in tights
    to men in tights.

    Unless they run around and then they get in fights...

    Mike (Laaaa-la la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaaa-la la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaaa-la la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaaa...)

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  • From Con Reeder, unhyphenated American@21:1/5 to xyzzy on Fri Mar 10 13:21:33 2023
    On 2023-03-10, xyzzy <[email protected]> wrote:
    Con Reeder, unhyphenated American <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2023-03-09, The NOTBCS Guy <[email protected]> wrote:
    Meanwhile, ESPN won't even air the men's gymnastics final; it's only
    on the NCAA.com streaming website. Of course, the fact that there are
    only 15 NCAA schools in the country (two of which are Division III)
    that even have men's gymnastics programs may have something to do
    with that.

    Thanks, Title IX!


    I think this one is more that the sports audience prefers women in tights
    to men in tights.


    Touche. But Men's swimming, soccer, and even wrestling are also abandoned because of the problem. A problem made even more ludicrous by the lesser
    female desire to participate in competitive sports.

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    one year of experience twenty times over. -- Anonymous

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