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Message: [QUOTE="JavaMan, post: 2047060, member: 5562"] [CENTER][FONT=Arial][ATTACH=full]19857[/ATTACH][/FONT][/CENTER] [FONT=Arial] The University of Connecticut women's basketball team won its 100th consecutive game on Monday night, a record-setting achievement that is many things. The mark is utterly astounding, almost unfathomable and thoroughly impressive. Cry-worthy, though? For most people, probably not. But memorable moments don't occur in vacuums. That's why UConn's big achievement [I]does[/I] make the room a little dusty when considered in the context of another story involving basketball and young women this week. There's a reactionary, sexist line of thinking among many sports fans that has followed the UConn women's team for years. It gets trotted out after every national title and every milestone win: [I]Who cares? Everyone knows the real action is on the men's side. [/I] UConn's achievements do matter, though. They're impressive in their own right, but they're also more than that, for the example they set and the message they send. With that in mind, let's look at another story that was shared across the web this week but didn't have nearly the high profile of a college basketball team winning 100 straight games. This story features St. John's, a fifth-grade Catholic Youth Organization basketball team from New Jersey. St. John's had been playing its season with a roster of nine boys and two girls. But then a league director told the team that having girls on the roster was forbidden, according to NJ.com. The team was given a choice: Play its remaining two games without the girls or don't play anymore at all. So the dilemma was put to a player vote. What happened next, via NJ.com, reads like a movie script. [B][URL='https://www.f3nws.com/news/cry-of-the-week-uconn-s-indefatigable-women-and-the-world-they-made-cvVsD'][CONTINUE][/URL][/B] [/FONT] [INDENT][FONT=Arial][/FONT][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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