The all-purpose WNBA thread

[Mystery_Meat]

And yet, 78 percent of SportsJournalists.com respondents said they'd take a job in the WNBA. ;D

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/28127/

To be fair, there's a big difference between "take a high-paying job in the WNBA" and "watch the WNBA of my own free will". 110 large changes the atmosphere.

 

[ondeadline]

Yeah, go from one industry that is cutting its workforce way too much -- newspapers -- to the WNBA, which is likely to cut all of its workforce within five years.

 

[Lugnuts]

As much as everybody around here says they'd rather chew off a limb than watch the WNBA, I guess we all have our price.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

I don't think EVERYBODY says they'd rather chew a limb off, and if you asked a big-time trial lawyer whether he or she would rather chew a limb off or watch four hours of real estate law discussion, then you'd probably find more one-armed bandits than at Dover Downs.

Put another way: There's sports I would never watch for free because they bore me to tears. But tell me to make my living off of them, and I would without hesitation. That's what a jack-of-all-trades sportswriter does.

 

[Starman]

Yeah, go from one industry that is cutting its workforce way too much -- newspapers -- to the WNBA, which is likely to cut all of its workforce within five years.

And millions of penises will throb with excitement the day it happens.

 

[tapintoamerica]

While I don't think the appeal of the WNBA will grow considerably, the league won't die. And it shouldn't. The fact of the matter is that very few pro sports teams make money at any level or in any game. They exist for other reasons, chief of which is the ego boost owners get from ownership. If the NBA thinks it has fat that should be trimmed, it should chop the D-League long before it whacks the WNBA. At least the WNBA is different. It offers the sporting public and society at large something new. The NBADL -- or whatever it's called -- is a thorough waste of time and money. Those who hope for and/or predict the demise of the WNBA should focus their attention elsewhere in the NBA realm.
Having said all of that, I don't think the marketplace has a moral obligation to support any particular group of athletes. The WUSA failed in its first attempt because of its hubris -- specifically its belief that it could guilt-trip the American sports fan into paying up to $20 for a ticket to a sport it had never really supported in this country.

 

[ondeadline]

Remember the other women's pro basketball league that played during the winter? It died because it wasn't bankrolled by the NBA. If that money every stops coming, the league will go away. It's kind of like the football and men's basketball programs helping to pay for the wrestling or cross country programs.

 

[heyabbott]

Any time a female athlete anywhere on the earth succeeds, millions of penises instantly shrivel up. (Even more.)

link please

 

[Highway 101]

Hey, the WNBA gives newspaper interns something else to do besides cover the local golf tournament each weekend.

Keep the league around for the interns — for the interns!

(But thank goodness I haven't been an intern in years!)

 

[DyePack]

I don't understand the hatred for this league. It's not like it sucks anywhere near as much as hockey. Might even get better ratings than hockey.

The best thing for this league would have been some Sue Bird heroics in whatever the hell round she failed in. Then all the moron columnists who think with their middle leg first could have written up a storm, barely able to keep from climaxing, and the league would have gotten a lot of pub.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

I wouldn't know a hockey puck from the two-weeks-old cornbread in the back of my fridge, but I can name five hockey players. Couldn't name two WNBA players with a gun pressed to my temple.

 

[Blitz]

Mwabe Mbeka (sp) is the ****.

 

[Football_Bat]

The Detroit Shock won in 2003. There's my contribution.

I'd follow it closer if Dallas had a team, but they don't and Cuban doesn't want to mess with it. Till then, it's bad juco ball for me.

 

[boots]

It's time fold up the WNBA and professional soccer franchises in the United States. The attendance is a joke since many are giveaways and the product, for the most part, isn't worth spending 4 hours to see. It's a cold hard fact that should be addressed.

 

[Ace]

Any time a female athlete anywhere on the earth succeeds, millions of penises instantly shrivel up. (Even more.)

link please

 

[boots]

Any time a female athlete anywhere on the earth succeeds, millions of penises instantly shrivel up. (Even more.)

link please

Ya gotta love that Ace. He gets it on the head, litterally.

 

[friend of a friend]

We stopped running WNBA roundups two years ago. Haven't heard one complaint from readers.

 

[boots]

We stopped running WNBA roundups two years ago. Haven't heard one complaint from readers.

 

[Blitz]

It's time fold up the WNBA and professional soccer franchises in the United States. The attendance is a joke since many are giveaways and the product, for the most part, isn't worth spending 4 hours to see. It's a cold hard fact that should be addressed.

While we're at it, lets cancel prep women's hoops and all prep soccer games.
Listen, I love WNBA and I love college women's hoops.
I'm sorry that the attendance is such, but I trace that to the simple fact that women don't support women's athletics.
I'm glad the female ballers have something to shoot for in terms of pro ball. I like the league and there are some good players in it.

 

[boots]

There are some good players but many more average players. I admire the effort but the truth is no one cares. That's why no one is complaining at friend of a friend's paper that they don't see the round up. I can name a few players and I've covered a few games but it doesn't do anything for me. Perhaps its because the WNBA is played out of season.