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There has been some outreach in the past. Sport's
Illustrated published Sports Illustrated for Women,
which covered female athletes and women's sports. Its
wasn't up to part with Sports Illustrated, however,
either due to lack of advertising dollars or
subscription intrest (and I'm not sure which) they
stoped publishing as of the first of this year.

Coral


--- Chuq Von Rospach  wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:16  PM, Andria
> Hunter wrote:
> 
> > I wish the media would get over their fascination
> with comparing men's
> > and women's hockey and just cover female hockey
> for what it is.
> 
> I've been thinking similar things, Andria. Problem
> is, down in the 
> states, the WNBA is marketed as a geek show for
> bored male NBA fans. 
> they seem to assume (and it seems correcly, at least
> on a national 
> level) that they don't have to sell it to the women.
> 
> is it because sports journalism is so dominated by
> men? that they don't 
> or can't conceive of selling to and for women,
> because women think 
> sports are icky (and secretly, all these women
> athletes are dykes?)
> 
> shrug. Frustrating, but I'd love to look for ways to
> convince sports 
> media to market women sports to women, and not just
> as some bizarre 
> geek show that's only there because the men aren't.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chuq Von Rospach, Architech, Apple IS&T E-mail
> systems
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