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Giants Rule!

Posted in Politics, Sports, tagged , on November 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »

How about that!

Pelosi’s home town team tromps Bush’s old franchise in the Arlington Stadium grabbed by that city’s dubious eminent domain practice.

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Been There…

Posted in Health and Food, Sports, tagged , on March 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Oh, joy.

As person who can get motion sick swimming in a pool, don’t expect me to come over to watch the football game on THIS.

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The Monarchs Die

Posted in 51 Percent, Children, ERA, Feminism, Great American Women, NOW, Politics, Sports, women, tagged , , on December 8, 2009| 2 Comments »

SacBee is reporting that the Monarchs did not find a team buyer. The players will be dispersed to other teams. I liked one commenter’s point attached to this article, that the winning team (The women’s) was being killed and the losing Kings team (The men’s) was not.

Draft will disperse Monarchs players after bid for Bay Area move fails

By Debbie Arrington

darrington@sacbee.com

Published: Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 – 11:11 am

[Instead of moving as a team, Monarchs players will be dispersed Monday in New York, the WNBA announced.

Today, the WNBA scheduled a dispersal draft of Sacramento’s franchise, one of the original eight WNBA teams and the 2005 champions….]

http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/2379917.html

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Sacramento Monarchs fold

Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, Feminist Majority, NOW, Politics, Sports, women, tagged , , , , , on November 20, 2009| 3 Comments »

Sac Bee has just reported the possible demise of the Sacramento Monarchs, WNBA pioneers. Apparently this is another example of when the tough get going, the women get gone. Maloof Sports has decided to concentrate it’s energies on the Kings, the men’s basketball team.

I understand there are economics involved and attendance and all that. However, I think this reiterates how choices tend to be made when profit is the first motive, especially in hard times. The Monarchs deserve a new owner, if one can be found, that sees women’s basketball as the first priority.


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