awwwe, nostalgia

I admit, I was a youngin' when this show was out but as far as Saturday morning cartoons go, this was a good one. I remember eating the ProStars breakfast cereal so I could use a tree truck as a bat like Bo.  It didn't matter how much protein was in that cereal, I still had to use a wimpy little stick when I played street hockey in my pink roller skates with a crushed soda can.  Harrumph!

It's too bad we don't have sports stars like we used to.  Kobe will never have his own breakfast cereal because no kid wants a rape whistle as a prize.  But that wasn't really fair to say, he wasn't convicted, sorry Kobe.  

Photo courtesy of google images

Battle of the Sexes

Hello Blogosphere,

I just read a very insightful article, Equitable Media Coverage of Female and Male Athletes: Is there a Solution? By Dr. John Vincent, (which unfortunately I can't provide a link to, you'll just have to take my word for it) that discusses how the media portrays women athletes and athletics inadequately to their male counterparts, in everything from the quality to the stories to the pictures that are ran.

Vincent brings up several factors that he uses to gauge the equitably of the media coverage of the genders; Feminist, cultural studies and political economy perspectives.

Feminist believe that the media exploits female athletes, and only the heterosexual athletes whom ooze sex appeal get the media coverage.

Cultural studies scholars believe the media plays a prominent role in reinforcing gender differences through the subordination and oppression of female athletes.

Political economy scholars view newspapers as being driven by financial gain. So instead of acting as engines of social change, reinforce traditional cultural mainstream values.

Female athletes typically receive about 10 percent of print media coverage and when they do receive coverage, it's often based on sex role stereotypes and their feminine heterosexual attractiveness rather than athletic skill. Men are often described in terms of their strenghts and success.

Vincent has many recommendations for what the media can do to for the print media to have equitable coverage of females: Improve the quantity and quality of coverage, position on page, content and quality of of photographs and the portrayal of female athletes.

Although I agree that female athletes deserve equal coverage to males, I'm realistic and know that the majority of sports fans are males, and most of the guys I know don't really care if a female scored 50 plus points in a basketball game, unless the broads boobies were the size of basketballs. Yes, it would be nice if female athletics were taken as seriously as males, but at the same time, its important for the media to know their audience and write for them.

Finally, Brooke has a blog!

Greetings sports fans.  Welcome to the best damn sports blog period.

Since I can't pretend to know much about sports, I'm going to write about what I do know...MOVIES!  Yes, Yes, this blog is all things visually stimulating.  Sport movies, clips, photographs, you name it, I'll blog it.  

To start my first blog, I think I'll begin light.  My name is Brooke, I'm a senior at the University of Iowa, I'm a double major in Studio Arts and Journalism and here is my top 10 list of best sports movies I have seen thus far*  

1. Space Jam

2. The Sandlot

3. Bad News Bears (original with Walter Matthau)

4. BASEketball

5. The Big Lebowski (There's bowling)

6. Cool Runnings

7. Balls of Fury

8. Rudy

9. Rocky

10. Invincible 

(11? Mortal Combat) 

*Subject to Change

Stay tuned for my top 10 worst sports movies thus far.