in the history of all sports:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D31DgwDTZ8

Someone can embed if they want to. It's the video of the Xavier girl missing two wide open layups in the Elite 8 against Stanford.

Obligatory [OLD]. I saw the highlights after it happened, but forgot to make the thread until now.

How does this video show why women's basketball if the worst sport in the history of sports you ask??? Because it is a perfect example of how women take the best element of a great sport that men play, and make it unbearable.

Basketball is fun to watch because of the amazing athleticism of men. High-flying dunks and blocks. Acrobatic layups. The ability to jump high enough off of a stand-still to get your shot off against anyone. Split second full-court fast breaks. Reckless drives to the basket by Wade and Lebron. Shut down defenders and fast break blocks. I could go on.

The athletic inferiority of women take away all of that. This girl at Xavier, a scholarship athlete for a team in the Women's Elite 8, missed two wide open layups. WIDE, THE FUCK, OPEN. Women can't dunk, they can't jump high enough or aren't tall enough to make layups like this automatic...7 year old youth squads run quicker fast breaks than the "elite" women. They get more jump shots blocked because, guess what...they can hardly fucking jump.

This probably isn't worthy of a thread...but I absolutely abhor women's basketball. It's a disgrace to the sport of basketball and I don't think it should be a college sport, much less a professional sport (I can't believe there is still a WNBA). The women would have to all be supermodels for me to watch a game for more than 5 minutes. And they are far from it. I'm having a hard time thinking of a women's sport with more ugly and butch looking women than basketball (women's weightlifting and shit like that doesn't count).

That's all....carry on.

4/1/2010 11:26:05 AM

put the rim @9 ft for women, then you might have something

4/1/2010 11:28:05 AM

I bet any of the women on that team could beat you 1 on 1 in basketball.

4/1/2010 11:28:40 AM

3.....

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1.....

WOLFOOD98!!!!!!

4/1/2010 11:28:50 AM

i agree with the OP

also no sense in paying attention to anything God says ITT, after seeing his shitty shooting form in the "show us your ass" thread

4/1/2010 11:31:20 AM

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"I bet any of the women on that team could beat you 1 on 1 in basketball."

I'm sure most of them could. I wouldn't be surprised if I could take a couple...at least with a little refresher in my game...I don't play consistently anymore.

But that doesn't really have anything to do with the point of my post. I don't, nor have I ever, played collegiate or professional basketball. Nor am I taking up TV time with my un-watchable playing of a sport.

I would rather watch a men's YMCA game on TV than women's basketball.

[Edited on April 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM. Reason : .]

4/1/2010 11:32:30 AM

One of the coolest things I've seen at a bar.

A few years back on a Tuesday night with absolute no significant sports on. We're there about about 8 o'clock and all they have on is TNT Law and Order and some World's Strongest Man on ESPN Classic. This group of 4 people, 2 men and two women, come in and ask the manager to put on the WNBA game. "We don't show women's basketball here." he replies. "But its the Finals, Shock vs Mystics!" "We don't show women's basketball here. "You're telling me you're going to show Law and Order over Game 5 of one of the best series of all time?" "Once again, sir, we don't show women's basketball here. Guy and the rest of his group leaves; the rest of the bar cheers.

4/1/2010 11:37:29 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwRa2j2s6ao

4/1/2010 11:38:44 AM

^he was probably worried about the 6'8" black dudes blocking his shot

chick in the OP doesnt have that excuse

4/1/2010 11:39:53 AM

jbrick is actually a dude

4/1/2010 11:41:03 AM

this thread has nothing to do with sports, other than pick up ymca games... move to chit chat

[Edited on April 1, 2010 at 11:42 AM. Reason : ]

[Edited on April 1, 2010 at 11:42 AM. Reason : ]

4/1/2010 11:41:29 AM

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"I would rather watch a men's YMCA game on TV than women's basketball."

No one's forcing you to.

4/1/2010 11:42:07 AM

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"he was probably worried about the 6'8" black dudes blocking his shot chick in the OP doesnt have that excus"

Yeah... I just wanted to post JJ Redick airballing a two foot shot. I agree about women's bball. It blows...

4/1/2010 11:45:15 AM

NyM talks about he can make like 75 percent of the old 19'9" threes unguarded

I'd put money on the under

4/1/2010 11:46:29 AM

women's basketball is a disgrace to the sport.

on all levels

going to my sister's rec games was painful enough, but even if you watch high level women's basketball (ha!) you see balls flying out of bounds, missed layups, airballs, people falling over. it's terrible

4/1/2010 11:53:42 AM

While I agree that womens basketball is not entertaining in the least, at least to me.

I find that reading this thread is evoking a 'get a life' feeling from me in regards to people who waste their time demeaning it.

4/1/2010 11:56:22 AM

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"No one's forcing you to."

No...but ESPN could find something better to put on than that abomination of a sport. I'd like to have better options.

4/1/2010 11:57:44 AM

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"NyM talks about he can make like 75 percent of the old 19'9" threes unguarded"

I've made 74 out of 100 before... but I think it'd probably be more around 55-60 at this point.

And we're talking about NO ONE guarding me. Just shooting around.

I think someone bet me a while back I couldn't make 50 out of 100. I'd do that anytime and anywhere as long as it was an indoor court.

*** And really that is nothing special. In an actual game I'd probably be lucky to make 3 out of 10.

[Edited on April 1, 2010 at 11:59 AM. Reason : x]

4/1/2010 11:57:51 AM

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"I'd do that anytime and anywhere as long as it was an indoor court."

You want an 8 ft basket there as well, Alice??

4/1/2010 12:00:14 PM

I hate all women's sports

4/1/2010 12:01:55 PM

words

4/1/2010 12:06:25 PM

So, your argument is that because they are bad at it, we should give up on it, correct?

Just checking.

4/1/2010 12:11:50 PM

Give up on it?? Fuck it...let 'em play...just don't have it take up time on major networks that could be used for more entertaining sports events/shows.

And are they going to magically get more athletic?? It hasn't gotten any better over the years (marginally better, if that) and it won't get any better.

4/1/2010 12:34:00 PM

I'd rather have women's basketball on than world series of poker. At least one of those is an actual sport.

4/1/2010 12:39:35 PM

I don't watch poker on TV anymore...but if I had to choose...I'd definitely watch poker over women's basketball. It's just more interesting and entertaining.

Is God a woman?? If so...that makes a little more sense.

[Edited on April 1, 2010 at 12:46 PM. Reason : .]

4/1/2010 12:45:50 PM

But... it's a sports channel.

4/1/2010 1:12:41 PM

And women's basketball shouldn't be considered a sport. It's like glorified recess for girls.

4/1/2010 1:16:45 PM

If nobody knew wtf was going on people would probably find it entertaining.

Like curling. I have a feeling if anyone really understood curling nobody would watch it.

4/1/2010 1:19:42 PM

^^That's rather sexist, don't you think?

4/1/2010 1:23:02 PM

^I understand about 99% of curling now...but I liked it when I originally just looked at it like bocce on ice (which it pretty much is...with a few different rules).

But I liked it because there were actually some cute girls and because I liked bocce. It made me want to grab a case of beer and go to the local ice rink and join a league.

I would so much rather watch women's curling than women's basketball.

4/1/2010 1:23:54 PM

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"That's rather sexist, don't you think?"

I think it's being honest.

The true allure of basketball is the amazing things men can do athletically while playing the sport. The top athletes in women's basketball are so far behind the top athletes in men's basketball that it is not even funny. That's why you can have a man who is 5'7" win a dunk contest and a woman who is 6'7" that can't even dunk.

Cold, hard facts. Quit arguing against the truth.

4/1/2010 1:26:09 PM

That's true with every sport, though.

Male track and field athletes put down much faster times than women. Should we abandon coverage of women's track and field events because of that?

4/1/2010 1:41:53 PM

4/1/2010 1:47:32 PM

Man I hate Alan Keyes

4/1/2010 1:48:16 PM

It's not that big of a disparity. Male and female sprinters world records are separated by less than a second. World class female sprinters are faster than a lot of college and almost all top high school sprinters. The best female professional and college basketball players would get owned by pretty much every male college basketball player and a shit ton of male high school basketball players.

There's not a sport that comes to mind where the disparities are as great as they are than in basketball. Softball and baseball are pretty big, but at least there are some hotties in softball and it's not televised as much as women's basketball.

God is trolling and failing hard at the same time.

4/1/2010 2:09:55 PM

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"But... it's a sports channel."

The "E" in ESPN stands for "Entertainment"

4/1/2010 3:23:57 PM

women's hockey is pretty terrible. so is women's soccer.

4/1/2010 3:27:13 PM

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"woman who is 6'7" that can't even dunk."

What about a man who is 6'7" that can't even dunk?

4/1/2010 3:49:38 PM

Women's hockey is pretty bad...they should take that off the Olympics. That was pretty unbearable to watch. However, it doesn't get a fraction of the regular air time that Women's basketball does. The Olympics was probably the first time I've seen women's hockey in like 10 years (don't remember it from the last Olympics).

Women's soccer isn't that bad. First, although athleticism is key in soccer, "skill" is a bigger part of the game. So not quite as big as gap between the women and men as in basketball (although it is close). And there are better looking women in soccer than basketball...not even close. Heather Mitts is one of the hottest female athletes out there.

4/1/2010 3:50:17 PM

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"What about a man who is 6'7" that can't even dunk?"

That's just sad. But I got much love for Ilian.

4/1/2010 3:51:59 PM

The thing that gets me about women's basketball is that they really aren't even remotely good at fundamentals either.

4/1/2010 4:36:20 PM

[Edited on April 1, 2010 at 4:36 PM. Reason : double post]

4/1/2010 4:36:20 PM

I thought Rachel Stocktail was pretty hot.

4/1/2010 5:44:20 PM

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" Y'all cats laughing and shit, need to check yourselves. This shit isn't funny.? She actually tried to commit suicide later that night. The only thing that saved her, was the fact that she wasn't able to swallow the pills. She kept missing her mouth."

Haha comment on the YouTube video. And yes women's basketball is an abortion.

4/1/2010 11:52:51 PM

holy shit, the mullet pony-tail on that ref is tremendous!

i assume it's a woman ref, but all you can see is her backside, and it's questionable.

4/2/2010 12:09:07 AM

^^ lol

4/2/2010 12:20:57 AM

the key to a good womens sport (or i guess, better than basketball womens sport) is that when you watch women play against women, it is not painfully obvious how bad they are.

tennis i think is the best example of an okay womens sport. basketball is probably the worst.

4/2/2010 7:51:47 AM

I'm pretty sure the key is to have attractive women face off against each other.... that ain't happening in women's basketball any time soon.

4/2/2010 8:08:31 AM

lol, perhaps not coincidentally that metric still holds up in my theory that tennis is the top and basketball is the bottom.

just read the thread. some reactions:

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"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwRa2j2s6ao"

gavin grant did this shit quite a few times.

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"It's not that big of a disparity. Male and female sprinters world records are separated by less than a second. World class female sprinters are faster than a lot of college and almost all top high school sprinters."

http://ncpreptrack.net/09tk4a.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics#Women
2009 north carolina mens state champion in the 100m dash: hunter furr - 10.65s
2008 olympic gold medal winner in the 100m dash: shelly-ann fraser - 10.78s

and there's nothing special about this result. just the most recent nc high school state champ results.

[Edited on April 2, 2010 at 8:36 AM. Reason : ]

4/2/2010 8:17:18 AM

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"I hate all women's sports"

even women's beach vollyball?

4/2/2010 9:02:58 AM