and layups galore!Truthfully, I prefer the WNBA to the NBA. So much ball movement. That isn't innuendo - I like how everyone gets involved.
and layups galore!Truthfully, I prefer the WNBA to the NBA. So much ball movement. That isn't innuendo - I like how everyone gets involved.
Yep, it's just not as competitive, men have been competing for centuries, and it shows. Just talking about the sports i like to watch like soccer, women are generally slower, much less skilled and not enternteining to watch at all. Just compare a male goalkeeper to a female one, lol.why WOULD i want to watch female sports?
They are slower and usually less skilled.
Bullshit. Athleticism is extremely important in soccer. To imply anything else is ignorant imo.
Serena was already a PRO womens player for over 4 years and became a top 10 player on the womens tour the next season.
Close enough.
in other parts of the world women sports is just as important as male sports. it is mostly in the US that they ignore it.
in other parts of the world women sports is just as important as male sports. it is mostly in the US that they ignore it.
why WOULD i want to watch female sports?
They are slower and usually less skilled.
I enjoy watching women's 100m hurdles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltcCGd9zid8
I never said it wasn't. I said women's soccer isn't less interesting than men's, since some people were saying the physical disadvantage made women's sport less interesting. Read the post properly before you overreact next time.
Yeah. It's too bad since if they had a bigger pool to draw from, they'd have a more viewer friendly sport to present. That's where the less money, less interest stuff starts becoming a bar to entry/expansion.I will watch women's MMA if it's part of a decent-enough card. But yeah, the fact there's only 1-2 weight classes for women's MMA fucks things up for fighters at the extreme ends of the height spectrum. But unless we suddenly get a massive deluge of world-class female MMA fighters I doubt there will be more impetus to make more weight classes.
That one MT champ that got a sex change ended up getting banged around in the women's division IIRC. It's not just a question of conditioning there.Also, in a related story: When I was in Thailand earlier this year training I saw a few women's Muay Thai fights. The most brutal KO I saw was in one of them. One girl just threw a standing elbow that made a huge cut above the other girl's eye. She was out cold for at least five minutes with blood pouring out all over the place.
The thing I would like to state here is that very few - if any - male Thai MT fighters would ever be KO'd like that. Their conditioning and physicality is just unreal. And unless female fighters want to take the Cristiane Santos route, they'll never have the same physical potential that men do.
Same.Truthfully, I prefer the WNBA to the NBA. So much ball movement. That isn't innuendo - I like how everyone gets involved.
in other parts of the world women sports is just as important as male sports. it is mostly in the US that they ignore it.
Oh really? That's interesting. I wonder if this 'we want to watch the best of the best and that's MEN' mentality is a US one...
in other parts of the world women sports is just as important as male sports. it is mostly in the US that they ignore it.
I'm guessing that men hold the majority when it comes to sports supporters, so perhaps they prefer to watch their own sex when it comes to their favourite sport.
us women's soccer team might beat the men tho. stayed up to watch usa vs brazil during the last womens world cup- and ill hace to say that it is one of the best matches ive ever watched.
Did you ever think this might be because they never advertise or air these sports on tv?
Nah, thats untrue. Male and female motorsport is actually something that is generally combined, women would struggle at the top level (Formula 1) for one it requires an insane amount of neck strength. (and historically, the two or three women that has tested F1 cars has struggled a lot). On the lower formulae women have competed and often beat their male counterparts though.Well, tennis has been mentioned a lot. Martial Arts, swimming, surfing and other water based sports, and soccer I would say. If you count things like motorsports or equestrian as sports there's no physical advantage there.
That's borderline delusional. At least the last time I saw USA play was at the WC. They had a pretty good thing going.us women's soccer team might beat the men tho.
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This from the Wall Street Journal indicates that even a major international trophy sometimes isnt enough to put women on equal footing (pun perhaps intended) with men:
The Japanese women, considered strong contenders for Olympic gold in London, had to squeeze into economy seats on a 12-hour flight to Europe this week, while members of the less successful mens soccer team, enjoyed the plush amenities of business class further up the cabin.
It should have been the other way around, team captain Homare Sawa, the belle of Japanese soccer, told reporters after arriving in Paris. Even just in terms of age, we are senior, joked FIFAs womens soccer player of the year.
Apparently this was the doing of the Japanese Football Association, whose Fifth Principle of their code of conduct holds them to Apply all human, intellectual, and material resources accumulated towards the contribution to Asian and global football.
Material resources does not include fancy seats on an airplane for world champion footballers.
us women's soccer team might beat the men tho. stayed up to watch usa vs brazil during the last womens world cup- and ill hace to say that it is one of the best matches ive ever watched.
Truthfully, I prefer the WNBA to the NBA. So much ball movement. That isn't innuendo - I like how everyone gets involved.
WNBA is the saddest pro sports league in American history.
I never understood the existence softball. I used to play baseball as kid, I remember playing against an older softball team(female obviously) with softball rules. It was so annoying, the ball was so huge, can't remember who won though. :| There's no reason why women can't play baseball.If I wanted to watch sloppy unathletic basketball I'd go to local HS games. Women are crippled from adolescence by playing by different rules with a different ball, softball/baseball and lacrosse the same. It would take a complete restructuring of our society's admittedly sexist sports segregation in order for women to catch up.
Like I posted a few posts above, F1 requires a remarkable amount of strength. A woman would have to train very, very hard to be able to withstand the g-force stresses alone. Of course men also have to train hard, but they can get away with less.Makes me wonder why haven't seen women in F1 yet. Things get even sadder when I realize that the only female test driver in F1 (afaik), Maria de Villota, recent a terrible accident that cost her her right eye.
Like I posted a few posts above, F1 requires a remarkable amount of strength. A woman would have to train very, very hard to be able to withstand the g-force stresses alone. Of course men also have to train hard, but they can get away with less.
Also there has been 5 women in full F1, 2 current testers (well 1 now, was absolutely gutted at Maria's misfortune)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Formula_One_drivers
I never said it wasn't. I said women's soccer isn't less interesting than men's, since some people were saying the physical disadvantage made women's sport less interesting. Read the post properly before you overreact next time.
us women's soccer team might beat the men tho. stayed up to watch usa vs brazil during the last womens world cup- and ill hace to say that it is one of the best matches ive ever watched.
Came in here to post this. The best female athletes don't even play the sports that we care about, so why watch?
If I wanted to watch sloppy unathletic basketball I'd go to local HS games. Women are crippled from adolescence by playing by different rules with a different ball, softball/baseball and lacrosse the same. It would take a complete restructuring of our society's admittedly sexist sports segregation in order for women to catch up.