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Post by williamtsherman on Aug 7, 2021 9:22:53 GMT -6
I guess if you want to justify expenditures by the standard that they are not as bad as most college football programs, you could justify pretty much anything that didn't lose as much as $10 million a year. For example, compared to MAC football, it would be OK to spend, say, $8 million annually to provide regular pedicures and toenail paintings for women athletes.
Anyway, that article is a text book example of dishonest woke establishment media echo chamber thinking, which is applied to all manner of issues, large and small. Kudos to 00 for bringing this to our attention. Your typical woke person will read that article and come away thinking "Just as I would have thought, sexism permeates the NCAA. Sure glad I'm one of the good people who realizes this!"
But as we actually know, the true situation is that women's NCAA basketball loses tons of money a year for the benefit of a small group of pampered, spoiled athletes, who none the less whine constantly about their situation. This is financed by fees on their fellow students. Those getting their information from sleazy, partisan sources like the Wash Post would have no idea of this.
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Post by williamtsherman on Aug 7, 2021 9:27:13 GMT -6
They have more medals than men. For the fourth straight Olympiad. This year 55-60% probably.
Would have the 4th highest medal count if counted as a separate nation.
By the General's reckoning none of that is really "excellence."
The rest of the world seems to count it, and American TV viewers want to watch those American athletes prevail and win medals, in almost anything, not necessarily watch the "truly" best Mongolian lift weights... Yes the US women are super strong this year and would likely finish high in the Delaware County boys HS competition in several sports. USA! USA! |
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Post by williamtsherman on Aug 7, 2021 9:32:46 GMT -6
Wait....could it really be you're not aware of the primary appeal to male viewers of women's olympic sports? I guess it's possible you're not....I always forget how woke people can get themselves to overlook the most obvious things.
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Aug 7, 2021 18:24:09 GMT -6
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 7, 2021 18:24:09 GMT -6
Two women's teams play for gold late tonight.
Both winning would put the USA in a tie with China for Olympic gold I think.
Not sure where we could watch it, if we like such competition with less than the best competing.
China has a boxer in a gold medal round to spoil any chances.
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Post by williamtsherman on Aug 7, 2021 19:33:33 GMT -6
I now gather I was mistaken in saying the canadian womens soccer team had a guy pretending to be a girl. turns out the person was born a girl, and thus is...you know...a girl in reality. Quinn was assigned female at birth but after many years of questioning themselves, realised their own gender identity did not match their sex. The 25-year-old remains eligible to compete in women's sport despite identifying as transgender because gender identity differs from a person's sex - their physical biology. Most people, unless they're non-binary, have a gender identity of male or female. So, now that THAT'S....uhhh...clear. Also, we are assured " Quinn doesn't like living in the spotlight." No comment. Quinn: Canada's transgender footballer on being 'visible' and playing at the Olympics |
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Aug 8, 2021 0:59:02 GMT -6
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 8, 2021 0:59:02 GMT -6
Women got the job done.
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Post by williamtsherman on Aug 8, 2021 6:20:25 GMT -6
I believe it was always a certainty that some woman was going to get those medals.
well....except for certain cases.
But I'm glad for those women, that they get their moment of glory. It's not unlike the special olympics if you think about it.
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Post by chirpchirpcards on Aug 8, 2021 9:53:12 GMT -6
The report states that the women’s basketball tournament ranks among ESPN’s highest-rated programs — with viewership comparable to the NBA Finals, college football conference title games, MLB postseason and Grand Slam tennis finals. The women's Sweet 16, led by a strong matchup between No. 1 seed Connecticut and No. 4 seed Iowa, averaged 915,000 viewers across the eight games, saw an increase of 66% compared with 2019, according to ESPN. The Iowa-UConn game drew 1.6 million viewers, the second-most-viewed Sweet 16 game on record. On the men's side, CBS/Turner reported its best performance for the men's Sweet 16 in 28 years, with an average of 12.9 million viewers (6.46 per game) — up 13% from 2019. |
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Aug 8, 2021 11:44:15 GMT -6
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 8, 2021 11:44:15 GMT -6
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Post by halftime on Aug 10, 2021 17:18:56 GMT -6
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Post by williamtsherman on Aug 10, 2021 18:17:02 GMT -6
Yeah but if you read the article, you would understand that a lot of the decline had to do with the absence of the idiot sprinter woman who couldn't stay away from weed long enough to do the olympics. Her name was well-known to dozens and dozens of people.
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 10, 2021 19:21:58 GMT -6
Yeah but if you read the article, you would understand that a lot of the decline had to do with the absence of the idiot sprinter woman who couldn't stay away from weed long enough to do the olympics. Her name was well-known to dozens and dozens of people. The rule seems a little silly, but given it's the rule, that was pretty stupid.
Could have also been stupid of the US Olympic Committee not to mention the rule to all the athletes if they failed to do so.
NBC took a view on this Olympics that everything was different and had been trumpeting their streaming and cable strategy. They were probably right that with the time difference they could not get away with pretending everything was live in prime time as they have in the past, everybody will know the outcomes, and they can hardly show tape and build suspense about a winner then.
But they really have to do this better. I agree it was a mess.
If you had Peacock you could watch things live, but wait around until the event you wanted came on. If you were not that fanatic and just watched prime time, they seemed to think sound bites, highlights, odd choices in what sports they showed longer, and human interest was the best prime strategy. That wasn't edited all that well among other problems. All this was aggravated by not telling viewers clearly about this strategy and what they were doing. The day before they needed to make much more clear when the events the US athletes were strong were going to be on live.
I figured it out early enough by using other sources, but then the time change just killed you with a week of events spread out. Carefully planning and watching Peacock into he wee hours with so much live coverage of sports where I had little interest wasn't worth it. You could record literally everything and then fast forward through and view the next day. That worked best for me.
I am in agreement the big gripe should be the nightly prime time show. The emphasis on women's sports was OK with me. Actually a really good story line but mishandled. The stories of human interest might have worked better if things were prime time and they had to fill hours with nothing going on. They could cut away to that after they explain the schedule and build up interest in coming events more coherently. I would much prefer they fill the extra hours in prime time in a live broadcast with more actual sports stories, show replays of big events and discuss them, and maybe explain or view events we don't see often.
They could still appeal to the audience of women using more actual women's sporting events.
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 10, 2021 19:38:31 GMT -6
The opening and closing events may have more appeal to some, not me. Especially before I have finished morning coffee. And without crowds and fans?
The closing event is only really going to work as celebration and capstone if viewers have seen many events, become really into the story lines, into the athletes US and foreign, but this Olympics failed colossally on that count.
They lost perspective about the sporting event because they bungled coverage of it, the woke element and story line was not the big problem for me, it was simply that they failed to build any story very well.
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Post by halftime on Aug 10, 2021 20:53:36 GMT -6
NBC's coverage had an overriding theme attached and it failed miserably to connect with viewers. CBS did the same thing with their Super Bowl pre-game coverage this year. They just can't help puffing out their sanctimonious chests and puking their glib wokeness all over us at every opportunity.
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 10, 2021 23:03:44 GMT -6
NBC's coverage had an overriding theme attached and it failed miserably to connect with viewers. CBS did the same thing with their Super Bowl pre-game coverage this year. They just can't help puffing out their sanctimonious chests and puking their glib wokeness all over us at every opportunity. SB did have recognition of social consciousness of the players in the wake of Black Lives activism. That was pretty intense politics, a bigger deal and a more intense emotional issue for them. I didn't see that as the event theme though. Just a small part, not central to the network coverage either. The Olympic coverage failed covering the sports, SB did pretty well. That's the difference I noticed. |
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