UConn Women Setting Records

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In class we talked a great deal about Women in sports and how they don’t receive nearly the same amount of privileges and opportunities that men do. We also talked about how Women’s sports don’t receive nearly the same amount of coverage that Men’s do. This however has changed a little bit in the recent weeks. The Women’s UConn Basketball team is coming ever so close to setting a new record for most consecutive wins in college basketball history which is held by UCLA. The UConn women already hold the record in terms of Women’s basketball however if they can get to 89 wins they will surpass all of College Basketball in terms of the streak. While we did talk about how women’s professional sports are hardly covered by the media this has received some great attention from especially ESPN as it is a phenomenal feat. ESPN has been tracking all of their games and following each win in some depth as the streak has gone on and shows how perhaps somewhat the trend of coverage of Women’s sports may be changing. Coakley talks about in his text how women’s sports may not be seen as “real” or as good as men’s sports(262) however should the UConn women pull off this streak and get to 89 wins it would help prove that there is no difference at all between men and women’s sports and that they are both equal. A women’s team breaking a men’s teams record will help a great deal in supporting the fact that women can be just as competitive and just as good as men.