Is this a Fad?
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Clark has pull. If she keeps getting better she could be what Tiger was for the golf!
They must’ve used the old lsu girl in the promotional posters. No way they are showing up just to watch Clark.
It's a fad. It'll draw more hate too. Expect her to get more cheap shots
I was thinking something along the same line before reading your post as both are owed money from their respective sports.
I think the cheap shots actually help. It brings more national news to the sport.
Until she gets injured and can't play. She's their gravy train and the opposing players and league office are too stupid to admit it.
I have a neighbor that hates all things NBA. He isn’t the biggest fan of college basketball. He is older,75+, but he hasn’t missed a Clark game going back over a year. He actually has her shirt. He actually now has his granddaughters over to his house to watch games together. That is her power. She is changing the game.
He’s obviously racist and homophobic.***
It’s part of years of effort to expand the addressable market by adding people to it who have personal, political, or social reasons to watch women’s sports and not men’s. They want to maintain male viewership, but I guarantee you the networks are all talking about how capture that untapped market
Yes, for a time. It won’t last. Either the militants will win, or she’ll settle in as a normal player.
If you actually watch her play it might help you understand it. There is a Maravich quality to the way she plays. She's exciting to watch (unless you're one of the studs who live to **** on everything female sports).
Not sure they're that sharp but if they did good for them. Their "product" can certainly use the publicity.
I’m sorry. I just can’t watch women’s basketball. I’ve tried. I do I like women tennis & soccer. But I just can’t watch the basketball or softball.
This is what happens when they’ve been living on welfare so long they don’t understand how economics work.
dear lord protect these people who plan to visit atlanta
I think I’ve watched 4 women’s basketball games… once when I was a student at state Candace Parker and TN played at the hump, I decided to go. State vs UConn in the final four, and the 2 national championship games. It’s definitely not as fluid as watching a men’s game. Feels more like watching a high school basketball game. But the final four game vs UConn was one of the best sporting events I’ve ever watched, regardless of sport.
Watching tennis and soccer for more than 15 minutes makes me appreciate chess.
Different strokes...
It helps that women tennis & soccer players on average tend to be easier on the eyes than in other sports.
You can't say this without sparking some sort of outrage these days, but if people can be serious for a minute, the WNBA is a slower, less athletic, weaker, and shorter version of mediocre high school boys basketball. It's not good basketball. It's just not, and Clark's popularity is coming mostly from the fact that she has a once in a generation all-around skill set that even current all star level players in the WNBA just don't have.
I'm not going to hate on the WNBA or anybody that chooses to watch it, but there's a painfully obvious reason that it's in the financial hole that it is, and people can see it any time they turn on a game that doesn't involve CC.
If you want to maintain viewership especially towards males, add some attractive females and not a bunch of loudmouth lesbians. Sex sales. Ask the Huck Tuah and the “crazy” hoochie momma on the plane.
Exactly. Clark can do things the average person doesn’t think they can do. I’ve never watched other female basketball players and thought they were doing something I haven’t done or still couldn’t do (whether that’s true or not). That’s why people watch her.
I've been thinking that as well. The wnba is a lot like wwe right now. Creating drama and the others are playing the heel hating on the "hero" Clark
Or at least give us a better heads up regarding the road work on 285. **
(Yes, yes, I know. There’s ALWAYS road work but at least that’s better than Mississippi where the road work is limited.)
That is all just really strange to me. Not to hate on Clark, but its not like she’s the first good women’s basketball player ever. Plenty have come before her.
True.
She’s got the media attention though which is desperately needed in the women’s game.
I mean I feel like the more they hate on Clark and the more drama they create more people talk about it. Hell we are talking about the wnba on this message board. I know sports are slow right now but Stanley cup is going on and we are talking about Clark and Reese. Pretty smart if they are doing it on purpose.
And there’s another word you left out as well.
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