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billie basquetbaäl skip to main skip to sidebar billie basquetbaäl where five foot tall white girls happen monday october 27 2008 briefly again part ii southeast and southwest division previews part iii atlantic and northwest division previews will this be helpful probably not no but the season starts tomorrow i may explode posted by m alana at 2 32 pm no comments labels ai al al jefferson baaahstun beasley brandon r o y chris bosh chris paul d will dwight dwyane grizz knics ladies love in the time of najera melo philly texas sucks the wiz thunder sunday october 12 2008 briefly in which i preview the central and pacific divisions with very little analysis posted by m alana at 2 41 pm 2 comments labels bron bulls i hate the lakers kangs ladies milwaukee sucks pacers pistons suns warriors friday september 5 2008 a patriot is not a weapon i m sorry i haven t been around at all dear readers if i had any i did in fact write about olympic basketball a bit a usa basketball player primer and a post about team spain i also wrote about the wnba brawl and made an analysis free picture post i ve got a few more non basketball posts at the ladies here the offseason kills me bad we re working on a ncaa preview so i ll link to that once we get started regarding this post i can t seem to phrase what i m trying to say correctly but i ll work on it in future i started writing it nearly a month ago and just finished it tonight a reporter on cnn held up sarah palin s high school basketball championship ball and my heart dropped i m generally happy with anything that brings basketball to the fore but in the way that a fan player brawl does a league few favors palin s basketball experiences invite comparisons that i personally have no desire to hear i ve read many people question why if palin was so good in high school did she not play in college this question and this sudden interest in women s ball reveal a lack of understanding of one of the largest and deepest disconnects between men and women in this country athletics i m not speaking in terms of play a direct of comparison of men s and women s basketball is a subject for another post but suffice it to say that the top levels of both can be comparable in skill and enjoyability no the difference lies not in the athletes themselves apart from the obvious the difference lies rather in how the two groups are treated a skilled female athlete basketball or otherwise can do well in high school she can gain power over herself in a way few high school girls can and power over others in a way few of those girls do a high school s fans after all are guaranteed and the most socially powerful girls in a high school generally are athletes in some form or another but there is no prestige waiting in the higher levels for a moderately skilled female player whether in soccer softball or more to the point basketball a woman that stars at the highest college level uconn or tennessee still will receive as much media coverage as a player for a small mid major if she s lucky she may even get as much air time as a mid level professional golfer put simply there is no reason for a woman to play college ball but for love of the game the pro prospects are poor the odds of making it to the wnba are simply by virtue of the number of teams a third of the tiny number that the nba can offer once there the women can aspire to reach the upper middle class and perhaps have their games broadcast on national television two or three times a season the only money and prestige to be had are in far off lands playing on the dimes of turkish shipping magnates and russian oil billionaires money is money and there s lots of it for skilled women players overseas but what american really wants to be a hero to little russian girls everywhere basketball is america s sport and that wnba logo is red white and blue but it lacks the weight of its older brother and there then lies the crux of the matter there are ways not many but several for young women to gain power in this country all of them are valid and the means to gain power are always complex for all but a few perhaps three women at a time that power does not and can not come through sports that is the deepest difference not talent or skill or drive or even watchability between men s and women s sports in this country fame fame and the power it brings fame and the power to bring it to oneself and the power to keep it no if a woman is attractive intelligent and athletic she is far more likely to use mostly the first route than the second or third to gain fame and therefore power and well within her rights to do so and understandable after all as i said women can only easily become powerful in a limited number of ways and the power of attraction is the easiest of them all to gain which brings us back to sarah palin and the choice to play or not play basketball at the four colleges she attended to gain her bs degree in journalism she is not of course an ideal example of this phenomenon there was no wnba then and presumably even more stigma attached to being a female athlete so her case isn t directly comparable to a modern player it s also presumably difficult to maintain an athletic career during a tumultuous academic career however she is an excellent example of the beauty intelligence athleticism triptych though the second may be in question and the third is only partly verified she initially chose beauty over intelligence in her brief but seminal turn as an alaskan beauty queen it can be argued that once she actually started a career it played the largest role famously michelle robinson s brother craig told her that a person s character could be judged by what kind of player they were so when she got serious with young barack obama she asked her brother to play a game of pick up ball with him and the rest is history a person s character can be revealed by how they play basketball but a person s character is also revealed by the choices they make any woman can be beautiful or at least focused on her own appearance it s a peculiar aspect of our current society that women are allowed to be beautiful and sexual in a way that men generally aren t yet at the same time they can not not be beautiful to balance the two impulses to desire and enjoy being pretty while chafing at the societal need to be is a daily fact of life for most american women to be intelligent to be talented to be beautiful all are valid and matter yet all of us man or woman are people first and attractive and sexual beings second a fact that should not have to be stated but as we watch sarah palin flounder prettily in the national limelight that long ago choice to gain power via her skills of attraction not her intelligence or her athletic skill takes on new meaning and as questions about her judgment justly arise those early choices to trade being an athlete for trying to become a sportscaster to trade skill with a ball for hunting with an assault rifle and a helicopter may reveal more about her character than they would for most young women posted by m alana at 8 53 am 5 comments labels fail it s awesome to be a hot girl but we re other stuff too ladies meta wnba friday june 27 2008 youth is only the past putting a leg forward i haven t been able to login for various reasons for the last month or so the situation has been fixed but don t worry i still will not post very often i did however write michael beasley looks better horizontal the only draft preview you need ed over at the ladies there will be a post draft thoughts post later today or tomorrow and a wnba post after that i ll definitely be covering usa basketball later in the summer i know that posted by m alana at 10 36 pm 1 comment labels 2008 draft assorted players derrick rose ladies michael beasley friday may 23 2008 holding open a restive door the earlier mentioned post at the ladies is here enjoy i promise to be around more soon freedom is only a few days away my friends posted by m alana at 2 45 am no comments labels 2008 draft brook and robin bulls corey derrick rose east heat i hate the lakers incorrect predictions joakim and tyrus and thabo ladies michael beasley my boys wolves wednesday may 21 2008 coughed and called it fate yeah chicago yeah there ll be a ladies type post on beasely rose and chicago on friday at the ladies chicago man shit posted by m alana at 5 41 pm no comments labels 2008 draft ben gordon bulls joakim and tyrus and thabo kirk hinrich ladies suck it d antoni monday may 19 2008 where are the songs of spring it s been a while i know i m not dead at least not all the way two reasons i haven t been here much one i ve been outstandingly busy moreso than i ve been in my life and two i ve sadly found little transcendence in this year s playoffs the east has been a swirling nexus of suck outside of oddly enough those scrappy pistons and sixers the suns were bounced from the first round but more importantly they are not the suns we knew the nuggets were nothing they were supposed to be and now they may not be much of anything at all the old order is failing and the new is forming its own path in the meantime we have the celtics and the cavs going seven games and unjustifiable first round sweeps where truly is the inspiration where can one invoke the sublime where there is none it is springs like this that reveal the lie of ascribing meaning to a game a team a player a series at least that is what i am desperate to disbelieve perhaps i and others as basketball fans were spoiled by golden state maybe we were misled into expecting high creation grand opera philip glass perhaps at every basketball game maybe we were made to have our hearts broken by loss nash and frustration melo but maybe next year s rookie sophomore game will shake the word metaphorically speaking maybe or maybe undeniably the future will answer every question and satisfy every need the future will bring us new blood and new ways of seeing maybe new ways of being yet now this year my only hope resides in the new orleans hornets i have waited too long to write as much as should be written about this team in 24 minutes of basketball they will either be into an epic matchup with the lakers or out of the playoffs and if it s the later maybe so will i but i believe despite it all damnit i believe my belief may have to wait but in the meantime candace parker had herself an epic game of historic proportions or maybe it was an historic game of epic proportions either way it was an epic game or at least an epic second half and even as just the opening game of the season it was played with more desperation and desire to win than say six of those celts cavs games it was amazing i m glad i at least will have great basketball to watch this summer even if most people will only see what they play in beijing as an addendum to this oh fuck you tony kornheiser i used to like watching pti but then professional women s basketball is a cute little summer league and parker s historic game was nice i can t even muster up anger over this just sadness and disgust no wonder people don t like you tony kornheiser my irritation has been building but this caps it you re a sad example of your generation and you wilbon if you like women s basketball so much how about you stop talking about the ugly uniforms and start defending its validity as a sport against an old bag like kornheiser i think that question answers itself posted by m alana at 6 04 pm 1 comment labels candace chris paul hornets melo playoffs wnba older posts home subscribe to posts atom try not to repeat myself the ballad of carmelo anthony our personal weather through variegated lenses blog archive 2008 22 october 2 briefly again briefly september 1 june 1 may 3 april 4 march 5 february 6 2007 1 november 1 about me m alana i love basketball a lot i write less philosophically about basketball and other sports at the ladies view my complete profile