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Around this time of year in years when UConn is good you can always count on Philly Daily News hack writer John Smallwood to post his usual carp about "Dominating UConn team is bad for women's basketball and taking all interest out of the game and the Huskies have already been anointed for the crown." And yes, HuskyNan has again exposed the evildoer in the daily links, so we know that the troglodytes have ended their hibernation season and will be emerging to once more launch a series of diatribes against UConn and calling for that end-all and be-all to the world's ills -- PARITY. Yes, the parity parties have begun.
While UConn fans celebrate another hard-won visit to the FF in a game that challenged the Huskies to did deep, writers like Smallwood are ignoring everything and have already disposed of the other three #1 seeds in their attempt to belittle everything about the WCBB and the UConn accomplishments. Sure they're flamers who just want to build up their Comments tally, and Smallwood's piece is racking them up this morning. But again you have a writer trying to hide an anti-women's-sports and anti-excellence creed behind the usual call for some unsupported and undefined praise of parity. UConn's victory is predetermined, so nothing is interesting.
Sure, Smallwood became a joke years ago so his descriptions of WCBB as "boring" and "unappealing" have about as much substance as a stand-up routine by a North Korean accountant, but the fact that he and a standard cadre of trogs spill the same bile very year is a disturbing sign of the state of sports journalism at the local levels around the country. If I was an Irish fan, or a Gamec-ock fan, or a Terp fan, I would be even more incensed about these articles than I am as a Husky fan. As the devoted group of writers like Voepel, Hays, Smith, Fagan, and a big group of Northeast-NY writers are working their hardest to demonstrate how "exciting" and "appealing" the battle for the NC is, the termites are always out there telling the fans not to watch because everything is wrapped up in an ugly package.
Still a long long way to go before WCBB starts getting the respect it deserves and the efforts of all the players are highlighted as one of the best stories that is faithfully delivered to the nation in the spring year after year.
While UConn fans celebrate another hard-won visit to the FF in a game that challenged the Huskies to did deep, writers like Smallwood are ignoring everything and have already disposed of the other three #1 seeds in their attempt to belittle everything about the WCBB and the UConn accomplishments. Sure they're flamers who just want to build up their Comments tally, and Smallwood's piece is racking them up this morning. But again you have a writer trying to hide an anti-women's-sports and anti-excellence creed behind the usual call for some unsupported and undefined praise of parity. UConn's victory is predetermined, so nothing is interesting.
Sure, Smallwood became a joke years ago so his descriptions of WCBB as "boring" and "unappealing" have about as much substance as a stand-up routine by a North Korean accountant, but the fact that he and a standard cadre of trogs spill the same bile very year is a disturbing sign of the state of sports journalism at the local levels around the country. If I was an Irish fan, or a Gamec-ock fan, or a Terp fan, I would be even more incensed about these articles than I am as a Husky fan. As the devoted group of writers like Voepel, Hays, Smith, Fagan, and a big group of Northeast-NY writers are working their hardest to demonstrate how "exciting" and "appealing" the battle for the NC is, the termites are always out there telling the fans not to watch because everything is wrapped up in an ugly package.
Still a long long way to go before WCBB starts getting the respect it deserves and the efforts of all the players are highlighted as one of the best stories that is faithfully delivered to the nation in the spring year after year.