Despite having many sportswriter friends and being the daughter of a career high school coach of five sports ( and winning a few awards for sportswriting myself) I never watch sports in person or tv. Consequently I know none of the men players you mentioned. ( I’d also never heard about Travis Kelce, but I knew about Taylor Swift.) I know about Caitlin Clark. I made my bones on the sports pages writing about interviews with men who control what sports the public sees. The guys who decide what sports are promoted to line their pockets and those of the other mostly men who dominate the sports industrial complex, that mocks women’s’ sports and brutalizes female reporters. My late great friend, a nationally famous sportswriter told me she never opened her email when she was alone. I got that kind of mail, and I don’t scare easily, but I know what she meant. Women who are strong, talented and skilled scare timid men, on and off the playing field.
Despite having many sportswriter friends and being the daughter of a career high school coach of five sports ( and winning a few awards for sportswriting myself) I never watch sports in person or tv. Consequently I know none of the men players you mentioned. ( I’d also never heard about Travis Kelce, but I knew about Taylor Swift.) I know about Caitlin Clark. I made my bones on the sports pages writing about interviews with men who control what sports the public sees. The guys who decide what sports are promoted to line their pockets and those of the other mostly men who dominate the sports industrial complex, that mocks women’s’ sports and brutalizes female reporters. My late great friend, a nationally famous sportswriter told me she never opened her email when she was alone. I got that kind of mail, and I don’t scare easily, but I know what she meant. Women who are strong, talented and skilled scare timid men, on and off the playing field.