Good News!

I am not opposed to professional sports in general, except that I have been known to turn on baseball when I am stuck in Giants traffic trying to get to mass or Lectura Dantis (I normally love baseball). Once the weather is cooler, I like football, especially on Monday nights with pizza and beer. I am probably somewhat neutral to soccer, although I like to watch Italy do well in World Cup (especially against Argentina, although it is even better when Argentina doesn't qualify).

However, I am totally opposed to professional women's athletics (OK, I'll give a pass to tennis and golf, and some sports I object to anyone doing for money, so those are not gender issues). They are quite simply wrong at just about every level. So, it is with great joy that I pass on the news that the women's soccer league has suspended operations.

Beyond my obvious glee at the demise of any professional women's sport league, I am wondering what the organizers were thinking. Soccer is primarily a sport for children in this country (most of whom never really get the game and grow out of it in high school), so why they thought that they would popularize it by boosting women into it is a mystery. Obviously they should have listened to me earlier, but instead sank money into it and encouraged antics like that young woman who ran around the field half naked in celebration of her athletic prowess (yuck, I repeat, yuck). So we can only hope that the promoters of this degrading spectacle lost tons of money in it, and that the young women involved in the whole thing escaped with some semblance of their dignity left.

We can only hope that the WNBA and the Women's Professional Football League follow in the WUSA's footsteps!