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Come Support Cornell Women's Basketball
Original Airdate: Monday, November 23, 2009. This is a part of the 93-Second Sports Shot series. 93-Second Sports Shots air weekday nights at 6pm.
Tomorrow, the Cornell Big Red men's basketball will travel to Syracuse, New York for arguably their biggest and most difficult contest of the season. Myriads of Cornell students have purchased their tickets to the Carrier Dome and those who haven't can tune into WVBR for the action.
BUT if you don't plan on doing either of those things, this is my official plea to our listening public to remember that there is another game in town on Tuesday, as the 2-2 Cornell women's team faces off against the visiting IUPUI Jaguars. Due to unfortunate scheduling, the women's game at Newman Arena will tip off at the exact same time as the men's game in Syracuse, and the women's team which already suffers from largely insufficient fan support at home will also be without some of its regular fans who will make the trip to the Carrier Dome.
Many Cornell students and local Ithacans alike choose to take the grossly ignorant stand that womens' athletics are unimpressive and boring. Cornell students who are otherwise completely gung ho about the prospect of supporting one of their school's teams seem to lose any semblance of school spirit when the athletes involved are guilty of nothing but lacking a Y chromosome.
While it's true that men are inherently hardwired to jump a little higher and run a little faster than women, this detail does nothing to cheapen the spirit of competition or the competitive balance in a sporting match between two female teams. And despite the theory that we live in a town (and a campus) that is supposedly more “enlightened” than the average American locale when it comes to discrimination, why is that I've heard so many offensive sexist comments when I suggest to friends and acquaintances that they check out a women's basketball game every now and then? I've been fortunate enough to be a member of the women's basketball family as a broadcaster for the past two seasons and I can say from personal experience that NOTHING is lost in the transition from men's to women's basketball when it comes to intensity, competitive fire, and entertainment value. And yet the women's team fills just about 20-30 percent of Newman Arena for an average game, while the men sell out. And if you think it's a matter of success, remember that the women are just one season removed from their championship team in 2008.
Again, Cornell women's basketball. Tomorrow. 7 o clock. Newman Arena. If you're a Cornell student or an Ithacan with nothing else to do on a Tuesday night, I urge you to head on down to Bartels Hall and check it out. I know I'll be there.
Tomorrow, the Cornell Big Red men's basketball will travel to Syracuse, New York for arguably their biggest and most difficult contest of the season. Myriads of Cornell students have purchased their tickets to the Carrier Dome and those who haven't can tune into WVBR for the action.
BUT if you don't plan on doing either of those things, this is my official plea to our listening public to remember that there is another game in town on Tuesday, as the 2-2 Cornell women's team faces off against the visiting IUPUI Jaguars. Due to unfortunate scheduling, the women's game at Newman Arena will tip off at the exact same time as the men's game in Syracuse, and the women's team which already suffers from largely insufficient fan support at home will also be without some of its regular fans who will make the trip to the Carrier Dome.
Many Cornell students and local Ithacans alike choose to take the grossly ignorant stand that womens' athletics are unimpressive and boring. Cornell students who are otherwise completely gung ho about the prospect of supporting one of their school's teams seem to lose any semblance of school spirit when the athletes involved are guilty of nothing but lacking a Y chromosome.
While it's true that men are inherently hardwired to jump a little higher and run a little faster than women, this detail does nothing to cheapen the spirit of competition or the competitive balance in a sporting match between two female teams. And despite the theory that we live in a town (and a campus) that is supposedly more “enlightened” than the average American locale when it comes to discrimination, why is that I've heard so many offensive sexist comments when I suggest to friends and acquaintances that they check out a women's basketball game every now and then? I've been fortunate enough to be a member of the women's basketball family as a broadcaster for the past two seasons and I can say from personal experience that NOTHING is lost in the transition from men's to women's basketball when it comes to intensity, competitive fire, and entertainment value. And yet the women's team fills just about 20-30 percent of Newman Arena for an average game, while the men sell out. And if you think it's a matter of success, remember that the women are just one season removed from their championship team in 2008.
Again, Cornell women's basketball. Tomorrow. 7 o clock. Newman Arena. If you're a Cornell student or an Ithacan with nothing else to do on a Tuesday night, I urge you to head on down to Bartels Hall and check it out. I know I'll be there.
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