Sport Inequity

At this very moment, on ESPN2 (not even "the ocho"), Women's College BOWLING is being televised.

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And yet water polo, men's or women's, is NOWHERE to be found on the tube. Ridiculous.

And it's not just because my beloved Bruins are undefeated this year going into their conference tournament, not that they are ranked #1 in the nation, not that they are the odds-on favorite to win their FOURTH CONSECUTIVE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP (and the Lady Bruins won UCLA its 100th NCAA Championship last May... yeah, and I was there, baby... that 100 championships is the largest number of any university, and of course made us "First to 100" and is the reason behind the gold "C" in UCLA on our basketball jerseys [C being the Roman numeral for 100, natch]). No, I'm not complaining for those reasons.

Here's why...

Water polo is a wild and exciting sport. More brutal than football (players don't wear pads), faster than basketball (fouls don't stop play as much as pause it), more strategic than baseball (as the decisions have to be made much more quickly), and more intense than hockey (what they consider to be a brawl is just good set-play in polo).

And bowling? Well, any activity in which you get BETTER after a few beers is not really a SPORT, now is it?