Archive for March, 2008

When I asked Kemp to help me start a group blog where we would write about sports I envisioned a site that was funny most of the time but reflective when it was called for.

I don’t write a lot of serious posts. I try to leave that to the serious writers. I prefer to talk about stuff that makes me laugh but yesterday I ran across something that I didn’t think was funny at all.

I don’t think that anyone would deny the fact that there are more famous male athletes than female athletes. I am okay with that. Title IX and the evolution of our society are going to slowly even things out (I hope) eventually. I wasn’t terribly surprised when I had some trouble finding blog posts on the greatest female athletes of all time when I was doing research for this post on BlogHer.

Let me show you what DID surprise me:

No. I meant WNBA. And I meant it when I typed it here too.

Were you looking for information about why Mia Hamm is considered to be one of the greatest female soccer players? You could check it out on a lovely feature called… wait for it… profiles in poontang.

Do you need a picture of Anna Kournikova for your tennis post? I hope these will do because these are the first search hits.

Let’s compare it to the exact same shot of the first page of images for Roger Federer:

Why is he always fully dressed. He must not swim as much.

And if you are female fan of NASCAR this should make you very proud.

Wait – people aren’t taking her seriously? I wonder why?

So my friends, here is part of the problem. Now how do we even begin to fix it?