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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 2708607, member: 7631"] I'm a 50-something male. I had a close friend in college who played women's hoops at our D3 school and went to a few games a year. The play generally involved the players looking at the ball when they dribbled. I was amazed a few years later when I was in graduate school at UVa, when the local station started broadcasting WBB games. Even before Dawn Staley they had some girls with some size and skill. Then Dawn and Tammi Reiss showed up and were an incredibly skilled back court. A few years after I left C'ville, UConn had the '95 game with Tennessee, and my father was hooked. Any time I went home during the season, we'd watch a game or two. I was a jock growing up, and watched a lot of sports when I was a kid. The only men's sport I still watch is MLB, although it's not much, pretty much the Red Sox when they play the O's or they're nationally televised playing the Yankees. I watched a lot of ACC men's hoops in the 80's, then got kind of disillusioned when Len Bias died. I watch WBB and some women's soccer because they're still comparatively unspoiled. The "scholar-athletes" really are. Allisha Gray didn't graduate in four years, but she forewent the overseas season in order to go back to school to get her degree. The vast majority of women at elite BB schools get their degrees. Same for soccer players. I think Saniya Chong was more proud of getting her degree (I think she may have been the first in her family) than she was of playing in the WNBA. That's what college sports should be about. The sports should enhance the academics, they're not instead of the academics. [/QUOTE]

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