I knew WNBA salaries were pitiful, but I didn't realize they were this bad

You've obviously not worked in sports lately. Otherwise, you'd know both names very well.

 

*files this away*

 

Wait, you've never heard of Kevin Durant or Candace Parker?

How did you find this site?

 

Maybe it's time for the WNBA to go to those biking pants the Aussies wore in the Olympics a few years ago? They can do that LPGA 'glam up' approach.

 

Obviously, SC hasn't worked in sports very long, or she would have known Parker was indeed eligible for this year's WNBA Draft had she wanted to go that route.

 

Oh, well then I guess I should save my Candace Porker bit for a more appreciative audience.

 

The salaries are low for a reason: nobody gives a damn! Nobody cares about the WNBA. It's a niche sport just like sports car racing, volleyball, U.S. soccer (notice I made that particular distinction), curling and cycling. There are, of course, hard-core folks who live it and love it. Then there are the rest of us who could care less.

The WNBA is only around because the NBA moo-lah props it up and to kill it would be bad PR. All of the man-haters in the universe would come out of the woodwork if that happened. Just like Arena Football, nobody on the national scene gives a damn about the WNBA and rightly so. It's a boring product and I'd rather watch the Canadian curling championships. "We've got next," the WNBA once said in a marketing slogan broadcast over and over and over again during the NBA playoffs. Uh, you can have it.

Womens college basketball is huge in a lot of places and ignored in other places. A sad testimony about this was the ink given to Pokey and her dalliances with players. It was an unfortunate blackeye that many of those young women didn't need to be tarred with the same brush. Instead of talking about how wonderful it was that the SEC dominated the tournament and how great Candace Parker is (she could be the Tiger Woods or MJ of womens' hoops), we hear salacious tidbits and innuendo about Pokey.

It'll never be as big as the mens' game, as shown by all of the empty seats at tournament games and even at the Final Four. It's sad for those girls, but that's life. It doesn't mean that everyone is a sexist pig for not paying attention to the womens' game. It's a matter of choice.

Running roundups and forcing the WNBA down the throats of the public is not what our biz is all about. I hate to say it, but the customer is always right and no one is going to look at those. You'd be better off throwing anything else in that 8-10 inch hole on the page. And I do mean anything. When the average SEC football stadium draws more folks than Lee had to fight those damned Yankees at Gettysburg, that's the marketplace in action. People vote with their feet.

 

We
Need
Better
Athletes

 

the WNBA can't touch NASCAR. It may be legitimate sport in comparison, but leave both out of your section this summer and see which fans bitch the most

 

Hardly the problem.

 

I don't cover basketball and have never cared about it as a fan. Should the need arise to give a shit about them, I'll google.

 

You've also, apparently, been living in a cave for the last six months. Alone. Without Internet, TV or radio.