The patronizing coward backpedaled around the ring, pulling punches and even smiling. The football game was the first such event to debut as anything but a gimmick, with former college All-American athletes taking the field. Mystifying to me is the importance attached to these events. Women's sports will always be different from men's sports because women are different than men. What's more troubling is that both men and women make these comparisons a prerequisite for credibility in women's sports.
Sports stand to gain from women developing their games differently than men.
Glorification of the dunk is a poison whose virulence has sullied the men's game. I see a ball, I see a hoop. Men's sports at the highest level have come to be temples of arrogance and avarice. I go so far as to hope that women's sports, as they continue to advance, do a lousy job of copying the men's. The way I see it, women have a chance to get it right.