The Amory High School Girls’ Basketball team is ready to leap into the 2016-17 season. Head coach, Paula Wax, has been working daily with the team on their shooting and defensive skills and believes her girls are beyond ready to out hustle their opponents this year. The season will kick off on their first game at ICC on October 29. After all the preseason conditioning and drills, the team is ready to bring home a win! Wax lives by the quote “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard” and believes work ethic is very important. She instills a drive in her girls that can be outweighed by no other and is hoping the upcoming season proves just how hard the team has worked. Wax anticipates the girls will have a good chance of coming out…
You may just think this is a girl shooting a basketball, but in all actuality it is so much more. This is the first game that the Tulane Women's played in New Orleans after Katrina. The Tulane women's basketball team had not played a basketball in New Orleans for ten months. They beat Central Connecticut 62-50 and it gave them hope. Tulane went on finish 15-12 for the year. The reason why I chose the picture was in was turning point for Tulane women's basketball. They were finally home and they could get to play basketball in front of their supports. These ladies really care about each other and the team unity they had made them a strong team. The Hurricane was a horrible event but it brought Tulane Women's basketball team together because…
Truer to the game by Randy Horick is a short story, possibly an excerpt from something larger, about how women’s basketball more clearly reflects the essence of the game. He claims that for a multitude of reasons that I will discuss later in this, that women’s collegiate basketball and the WNBA are representative of the true nature of the sport. More shots from behind the 3-point line, less fouls, plays that happen at a speed you can understand, and more behind the scenes stuff is what differentiates men and women’s. He cites pressure to win as his main argument for the cause of the differences in the two. This pressure to win creates an environment of hostility; athletes only play at the collegiate level for a few short years, not earning…
It also takes away the endurance of the game. Because of the differences of women's and men's bodies, the NBA has more dunking and more interior games. This is due to the more muscular and athletic bodies.…
We are going to talk about the differences about the National Basketball Association and the Woman National Basketball Association. Because right now the popularity on the WNBA is known than the NBA, mainly because of the excitement of the NBA brings to the fans is a lot more entertaining than the WNBA, obviously because in the NBA have more money to pay their players and to have nice venue. An interview on ESPN said that an NBA game draws over double the attendance of a WNBA game, which means that there will be more ticket sales as well as merchandise sales and endorsements. This means that owners of WNBA teams are making much less money than owners of NBA owners, and thus have less to spend on players. Also, WNBA players only play 34 games in the regular season, compared to 82 games in the NBA season. Because they are not playing as much as NBA players, and they’re games are in much less demand, they should not be paid as much.…
Iam going to compare the NBA with the WNBA. I will have a chart set up showing many…
The UCONN women have some of the top attendance in women’s college basketball. Connecticut is known for its support of the team, and girl’s basketball in general, so if there is an issue in ticket prices in Connecticut, a state that has consistently gone to UCONN women’s games, then it must be a problem somewhere else.…
Exposure is an important piece of the puzzle in pushing for equality, not only in the world of basketball, but the world of sports as a whole. Although, the WNBA is steadily climbing as the Forbes list reported “the league welcomed its current president, Laurel J. Richie, known for her marketing acumen, and introduced Boost Mobile as a marquee marketing partner. In 2012, the draft moved to ESPN’s headquarters. In 2013, the WNBA launched a new brand identity, extended its television partnership with ESPN, the "3 To See" rookies gained mainstream attention, and season 17 ended with record growth.” (Glass) The WNBA may not be on the same financial level or branding level as the NBA currently, but the league is now equipped with franchise owners…
This website from the Library of Congress describes what Title IX is, and viewpoints of…
If you had two teams with the best men and women on each team it would be a great game and people would love it. In fact, if this happened ticket sales would go through the roof and sports would become more popular than they are today. “Sexually-segregated teams perpetuate the belief that female athletes don’t play as well as males”, according to Laura Pappano coauthor of “Playing With the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal.” This shows that it doesn’t mean that boys and girls are equal if the boys are playing on boy teams and the girls are playing on girl teams. If professional sports were co-ed it would make for more exciting games.…
5. Does a college basketball teams’ winning percentage cause total attendance to increase at their home games?…
Greenleaf, C., Petrie, T. A., Carter, J., & Reel, J. J. (2009). Female collegiate athletes:…
Women’s physical activity usually struggle with getting what they need to be able to play or function as a team due to the competition with the men activities. Sometimes the teams are having to use uniforms from many years before that are handed down from seniors or those who no longer play, having to walk back and forth to the school just to use the restroom, having to share transportation with the boys physical activity, or do not have the equipment that they need to be able to…
n the sports world people often do not acknowledge female sports as much as men's sports. Women sports are newer and hence the reason for them not getting the recognition they deserve. But the sports world is starting to see how women's sports can be just as interesting and exciting as men's sports can be. I am going to show you some discrepancies between women and men's sports. Women and men's sports should each have equal opportunities.…
1. My number 1 strength in Netball is my hand eye co-ordination. This is used to the maximum ability by always keeping one eye on the ball all the time and making my eyes, arms and legs work together. And because of this I am able to line a shot up whilst trying to throw the ball through the air.…