Tag Archive | March Madness
ESPN Still Giving NCAA Women’s Tourney Second-Class Treatment
Last year during March Madness, I wrote about ESPN’s Differential Treatment of the NCAA Tournaments. I looked at how the language used on the site, the features provided for each bracket challenge, and the inability to easily switch between the tournaments results in the women’s tournament garnering less interest and essentially being treated as a [...]
Fill Out a Bracket for the March Madness Women’s Tournament!
If I know our readership, you’re either in several March Madness men’s tournament pools or you’re in none. So why not join a bracket challenge for the women’s tournament? Last year, I wrote that people fill out brackets for the men’s tournament far more than for the women’s tournament, myself included. So I’m happy to announce [...]
Weekend Links Post
Happy Friday! You may be busy with family engagements this weekend, but if you’d like to get away for a bit, here are some things we’ve been reading around the internet this week. Discussion and suggestions for how to reverse the trend of declining women coaches in college level sports. Addressing homophobia at colleges and universities is an [...]
Congratulations to Our Bloomer Girls Bracket Winner!
Last night the Baylor Lady Bears beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in an exciting finish to the women’s tournament and March Madness. This also made for an exciting finish in Bloomer Girls Brackets: the bracket in first place before the game had Baylor winning, but the bracket in second place had Notre Dame, so [...]
#kuboobs Fouls Out
Tonight is the NCAA Men’s Championship game, featuring the University of Kansas (“KU”) against The University of Kentucky (“UK”, and no, that’s not going to be confusing at all, why do you ask?) Last week, my friend Paige, a KU alum and self-avowed college sports-ambivalent observer, sent me a link to an article, asking if [...]
Graduation Rates, Earning Potential, and Gender Scrutiny: Why the NCAA Tournament Makes Me Angry
Today we have a guest post from our friend Mike! Mike is an avid sports fan who probably knows more about the Yankees than you do. He adopted a three-legged pit before Parks & Recreation made it cool, and is an expert at Martini Time. Follow him on Twitter @M_Garcia36. ******* I am a sports [...]
Who Watches Women’s Basketball?
Last night I was able to watch some of the women’s NCAA basketball tournament (which was broadcast on ESPN.) I caught the second half of the Tennessee-Baylor game, and the first half of the Duke-Stanford game. Although neither team I was cheering for won their game (without any allegiances I cheer for the underdogs), I [...]
Obama’s Presidency is the Best Ever for Women’s Sports
Last night, I finally got around to listening to the B.S. Report podcast in which Bill Simmons, longtime writer for ESPN, Editor-in-Chief of Grantland, and total Boston sports homer, interviewed President Obama about his views on sports, his experiences with the professional sports world as President, and the identity of the best Wire character. Okay, that [...]
ESPN’s Differential Treatment of the NCAA Tournaments
The March Madness tournaments are well on their way, and in both my bracket challenges, it’s still (almost) anyone’s game. I’ve been following the games on my phone, live streaming them on my computer, and obsessively staring at my bracket. Wait, that’s brackets. As I suggested last week, more ESPN users fill out brackets for the men’s tournament than the [...]
March Madness is Here! Join Our Women’s Tourney!
March Madness is a great time of year: it’s a time when people engage in light-hearted competition in an area of sports about which they may know very little…and still win! March Madness refers to the NCAA men’s and women’s college basketball tournaments that occur this month. People enter into pools at work, online, at bars, among [...]
