Women's Hoops Blog

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

It's a veritable epidemic! (nod to Ted)

The Razorbacks, notes afteratlanta, are Ladies no more. Seems it was more a marketing issue than one of equity, but says ken,
...I am glad it is gone. Perhaps other schools will follow suit. (According to the article linked...Arkansas is particularly egregious in its inferiorizing treatment of female athletes.) But I think that the idea for doing so was to improve branding and thus increase revenues, capitulating even further to the DI athletics corporate mentality is kind of lousy.