[Mpls] Strib Sport Section

[Deborah Morse-Kahn]

Jim Bernstein wrote:

>Not fair and not true!  You would have to go back some years now to find a STRIB sports section that literally fits your description.  The STRIB has done a remarkable job of substantially increasing its coverage of women's sports. 
>

Ah, myth and reality! My favorite!  ;^)

There is no question that the Strib, PP and others are doing a better 
job of it.

But, I promise you, if the Gopher women's basketball team is no longer 
playing, women ain't showing. I can, several days a week, page front to 
back in the sports section---jeepers, what a glutton for punishment I 
am!--and find nary a female face in the photographs, and hardly any 
mention of women in the score listings.

Unless its tennis.

And the New York Times? I don't punish myself anymore. I skip it.

Oh by the way, what's this news I hear that Title IX is now restrained 
by the Bush Administration? Was that a social echo I hear?

Cheers all!  - Deborah in Linden Hills