I watched the last half of the game at Laurelwood Brewpub in Portland. It was a thriller! Two women down the bar from me were real Notre Dame fans - man, I thought they would croak from the excitement.
CNN ran the game. I'd rather watch a close, hard-fought women's game than a fiasco like the last Super Bowl.
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Female bears are Sows. Lady Bears, indeed!
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@Anthill Atoms
That is the biological name for a female bear, but the Lady Bears of Baylor are indomitable and beautiful.
Women's NCAA basketball keeps getting more exciting every year. The players, the three point baskets, the turnovers, the coaches and their legacies are all increasingly fun to watch as the years go by and, this year was no exception.
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My son and I were watching, we both have type 1 diabetes, as does Lauren Cox, the Baylor star who was injured. It was great to see her playing at the highest level, an inspiration. I hope she is OK. Great game!
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The Women’s college championship attracted 12,000 people to the final in Tampa and received prominent coverage in the Times because it’s about women’s empowerment. Wrestle mania drew 82,000 at a stadium 5 miles from the Times headquarters last night and was ignored because it explains why Trump won in 2016.
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... and Don’t forget, professional wrestling is not a sport, it’s scripted...It’s not real. No one had determined the winner between Baylor and Notre Dame… Also, the men’s tournament received front page coverage.
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@Rick
No crowd in sports is more elitist than women’s college athletics. Nearly everyone has a college degree. It’s a rich person’s audience.
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@Shamrock
A college degree is a "rich person's audience."
Is that something to be scorned or admired?
Every college sport has fans who have college degrees. That is a good thing.
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Last I checked, "Lady Bears" are just called bears.
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@DB
Maybe in you fancy east coast schools, But Not in Texas........;-)
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Congratulations to these young ladies. But the photograph accompanying this story does say a lot more if your view drops from the gleeful faces of the team to the many legs with obvious devices that are required to assist injuries.
@John Taylor
Knee injuries among women are a problem. Is basketball just too dangerous for women? I don’t think so.
It was an observation. That is all. Have not cared about the actual sport of basketball since Larry, Kevin, Dennis, Danny and “The Chief” split up.
I wish we could stop calling women's athletic teams things like the "Lady Bears."
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@Karen Page
I wish women’s athletics teams would quit stealing money from the men’s programs. We could pay men’s basketball and football players so much of their revenue was not taken from them by order of the federal government to subsidize women’s athletic teams such as field hockey, lacrosse, rowing, etc that nobody watches or cares about. If the gender roles were reversed it would not be permitted.
@Shamrock
Title IX
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
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@Shamrock
I wish we could give college football to the NFL to manage football as a farm system, like baseball's minor leagues. The NBA pretty much does this now for men's basketball. Attendance at all college sports, including football, has been declining for several years ...
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Notre Dame's Coach Muffet McGraw nearly had me become an Irish fan for the Final 4. She's ironically heading a program in the oldest institution of misogyny in the world. However her message is loud and clear!
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@merchantofchaos
Criticism of one religion for their treatment of women has to include other religions. Are there women religious leaders in the Muslim faith? Are women allowed to worship with men at a mosque, or is there gender segregation? Or do some readers just don’t care?
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Oldest institution of misogyny? Where’s your evidence of that scurrilous assertion?
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This was a well written review of the game. Thank you. I shall send it to my grandson, a Baylor graduate at Yale.
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