The only view of women they have in relation to sports is as cheerleaders. It's really frustrating to me. To me they are missing what is really good about athletics, and a lot of those really good stories are about women athletes. I'd like to see sports covered as sports. Sports coverage should be about who is playing, what the score was, and how it happened.
People assume that there is just one kind of sports going on, and that's men's sports.
People who have grown up watching their sisters play soccer or basketball will begin to expect information about female athletes in the same way that they get information about male athletes. It's already happening, but slowly. I think a lot of that has to do with the integrity of the reporters. Stories still don't get written early in the season, but I think newspapers are further along than television. It is really frustrating to have a championship team and get two-inch stories in the paper while some average men's team gets pages written about them.