Women's sports coverage at the NY Times

Womenshoops blog sent an e-mail to the NYTimes sports section to complain about the poor coverage of women's sports - particulary women's college basketball - read their post here. It's important for people to voice their dissatisfaction - feedback to sports sections is key - hopefully someone on the other end is listening.

But I also want to point out a great story that the NYTimes did on Sunday about football players getting into colleges they would not have otherwise by getting a diploma from a nonexistent highschool - this is the type of enterprise reporting that we need more of in sports journalism. I've been looking at a lot of NCAA numbers/reports for a story I'm working on about the three women head coaches here at Northeastern - - the $$$ devoted to and earned by football programs alone in this country is astonishing. And where there is lots of $$$, there is going to be corruption, cutting corners, cheating, etc. The sports media need to do a better job at peeling back the many layers of the business of sports.