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You probably know by now that I am a huge fan of the Sacramento Monarchs WNBA team. The Monarchs are not having a great year this season.

A bright spot for the Monarchs was the performance of forward Nichole Powell in the WNBA All Star game, July 25 which was carried live on ABC Television.

Powell, playing in her first all star game and a late pick, was selected as an alternate. She got to play when Lisa Leslie got hurt. Nichole proceeded to rain three pointers as the West team led for the majority of the game.

Sue Bird of Seattle wound up as the point leader and MVP with 22. Powell scored 21 points and was a huge help as the West team won 130-118.

Nice going, Nichole Powell.

Posted by Gypsy Chief

Monarchs WNBA Champs 2005

OK, I admit it. My so-called guy friends give me tons of grief when I tell them that I like the Sacramento Monarchs and watch their games.

“You actually watch that?”, one friend asked.

“What’s wrong with the Monarchs?”

“Well, they are a bunch of lesbians”, was the best he could come up with.

My Yahoo! home page lets me know whenever there is a Kings game or a Monarchs game. They don’t always get it right. Sometimes, very infrequently, Yahoo! will make a mistake regarding a Kings game. Wrong starting time, wrong score, whatever.

The Yahoo! track record for the Monarchs is much worse. Again and again Yahoo! reports the score as 0-0 after the game has been played. Or they will report no game when there is a game.

This has happened so often it cannot be a coincidence. The message Yahoo! conveys is that women’s sports is not as important as men’s sports. The WNBA is not as important as the NBA. Is that fair? Certainly the audience for women’s sports is smaller, but that is a different question. And I’d be the first to admit that the WNBA game is different than the NBA game. Still, those ‘lezzies’? are as competitive and as tough as the guys. I love a down-to-the-wire close game with plenty of lead changes. And that’s what I get from the Monarchs. Given the fact that the Monarchs won a WNBA championship (2005) and the Kings didn’t even make the playoffs this year I say go Monarchs. I’ll be watching provided Yahoo! remembers to let me know.

Yahoo! failure to assign resources plays right into the hands of misogynistic men who diss woman’s sports as an acceptable? way to be passive-aggressive. They can’t express disrespect to their wives, girlfriends, sisters or moms without being in trouble. So they diss woman’s sports instead. This makes them feel better. If Yahoo! fails to assign adequate resources to update their web content it must mean that the WNBA is inferior and not worth wasting time on. Heck, nobody’s watching anyway.

The remedy, I think, is for men who don’t hate women to squawk about this.

Complaints from women could be dismissed since they might be coming from [gasp] lesbians.

Yahoo! failure is a failure in sports scores reporting just as serious as it would be for them to consistently get it wrong regarding Kings scores and schedules. And men should speak up.

Posted by Gypsy Chief and Veronica