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Women’s Sports Seizes a Prime Moment to Shine Thanks to Math, Gravity and the Perfect Storm Around March Madness (Column)
Women's sports is having a generational moment thanks to math, gravity and the perfect storm around the March Madness college basketball tournament.
This time around, the women’s tournament has had it all: generationally talented superstars, fierce Division I school rivalries that have been brewing for years, a mini-scandal around a successful and sartorially adventurous coach and — at the last minute — another shocking but perhaps not surprising example of the extra burden shouldered by female athletes. Babb’s long read is a richly detailed, balanced look at Mulkey’s pros and cons as a coach as well as her struggles with family members and her penchant for flashy outfits on game day. Making a point about the public profile of both teams, columnist Bill Bloch described LSU as being akin to the NCAA’s “dirty debutants” while UCLA amounted to “milk and cookies.” The mind reels.
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