Week 6 Blog

                The article about Simmons really didn’t interest me at all. It just read like a term paper written by a student and was laced with the writer’s own thoughts on a sports journalist who I have never even heard of. I didn’t particularly like how he talked about “whiteness”. I believe that race should be left out of the sports world. If you enjoy watching a sport and are knowledgeable of it then race shouldn’t even be a thing of consideration.

                The article which covered female sports journalists was much more to my liking. I agreed with much of what the article stated. Women and underrepresented when it comes to sports and covering sports. If by some miracle a woman lands a job at a sports industry as a reporter such as Comcast Sportsnet or ESPN that is a huge feat in itself. However, the women are never given roles equal to that of their male counterparts. It makes me go crazy to see women having pointless roles such as a host on a sports talk show. In these instances the female does not give barely any opinion on the subjects that are being discussed but rather throws the questions to her male counterparts. One female that I can think of who has done the unthinkable is Doris Burke. Despite the fact that many people cannot stand her as a play-by-play announcer, she is good at what she does and she is well respected which is next to impossible for a woman to do in the sports industry. Most females you see in sports are more attractive than they are knowledgeable. Or at least, that is what we are made to believe since they rarely are allowed to say anything of sustenance.

                As far as a topic for my term paper, I think that I would like to address the issue of gender discrimination in sports. It really interests me and I think that I could do well with it; I just need to narrow it down a bit I think. Let me know your thoughts.