Friday, December 10, 2010

Blog 10 IMHO 2

1) Fletcherize
2) http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/
3) The two extra months at sea gave him an insight into a great business, and he had the time to fletcherize  his ideas.  -Elbert Hubbard
4) to chew slowly and thoroughly- verb
5)I had to fletchrize my steak so it did not get stuck in throat as I swallowed it.

Even though this story does not have anything to do with the big news like a fire in Union City, the prises in gasoline rising (once again) or even health. This piece gets me fired up for many different reasons. One is it does not give women the credit they deserve and should get. It has to deal with sports, any type of sports that is. For this piece it is about the Penn State Behrend Lions men's basketball team. I am very happy they are finally getting a few articles in the local newspaper since season started. They even get on the front page of the local Erie Times News of the sports section and half of the front page of the Behrend Beacon. It was not just one article, it has been multiple articles in both newspapers.

I understand the Lady Lions basketball team's record is only 4-3 and the men stand with an undefeated record at 7-0, but when it comes to women in sports they do not get the publicity they deserve. When it is dealing with any men's sport like basketball (NBA, National Basketball Association) you hear all about Lebron James or Kobe Bryant, but you do not hear about the Diana Taurasi or Lisa Leslie of the WNBA. If you hear about baseball you hear about Derek Jeter or Albert Pujols, but do you hear about Jenny Finch or Crystal Bustos? Rarely ever. Those two women have won gold medals for USA in the Olympics for softball. In rare form do you ever hear about a star athletic female over a male. Coming from a females perspective, it gets very frustrating always reading about the male athletes.