Women’s Basketball Fight Same As Men…Stupid

Brittney, don't hurt 'em.

I think we have reached a very important moment in the history of women’s sports in this country.  I’m not talking about some woman who can barely scrape a dunk over the front of the rim with a child’s ball, or that some female Japanese knuckleball pitcher got signed to a pro contract.  Who cares?  Not me, I know that.

But something did happen last night that made me think that women’s sports made a leap without really even trying.  They started punching each other in violent outbursts and I don’t care anymore.

When Baylor’s Brittney Griner played Kermit Washington to Texas Tech’s Jordan Barncastle’s Rudy T., minus the dislocated skull and leaking spinal fluid and all that, I didn’t care.  Really.

Maybe it was Elizabeth Lampert a few months ago when she started gooing her way across the soccer fields of the MWC.  That was interesting to me, but it was also the last time I found women acting like idiotic men compelling.

One athlete failing to control herself, takes a swing at another one, who might have been asking for it in the first place.  Good work ladies.  You have achieved what you have been after all these years, equality.  I don’t see a couple of girls involved in a cat fight, I see a couple of idiots who don’t know any better than to not throw sucker punches at people who aren’t looking, same as in the men’s game.

From Foxsports.com:

Tech coach Kristy Curry said Barncastle has an appointment in the morning to determine the extent of her injury.

"We're all in shock right now," she said. "It's very unfortunate. It's very sad. My only concern is Jordan Barncastle."

My only concern wouldn’t be in Barncastle getting her nose put back on her face, it would be the fact that women’s sports is now going to have to rely on sports to sell their product, not oddball dunks and fist fights.  That should be worrisome for everyone involved.  You play ball, you fight, you are just like the guys in all the bad ways, only the basketball isn’t as good.  Well done.