By
Kamy Shaygan
Arizona Daily Wildcat
It's sad to say, but someone needs to address it.
Women's sports get zero love. I would love to admit that I don't know why women's sports get zero love, but that's not the case.
The WNBA is a perfect example. You have the top women ballers in the country playing in a league at a competitive level.
You might ask, well, what's wrong with that? There is nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's beautiful to see women play basketball for the love of the league rather than millions of dollars.
The problem is society doesn't give a damn.
Here you have a league that is up and coming, but yet attendance levels drop each season.
Unless there is high-flying, hard hitting, raw power and elite performances, fans are not going to come out.
You should be ashamed if you call yourself a fan of sports, but don't give a rat's ass about the women's side of it.
It is the same reason the UA women's volleyball team has not gotten much attendance during its record-breaking 2000 season.
UA fans have the No. 5 team in the nation, but the games draw less than a thousand people.
If anyone has ever seen the UA women's volleyball team, you can agree with me when I say these girls are sick. They have verticals that can make most guys in the Rec Center fall out of their seats.
Although most fans are ignorant regarding women's sports, there is more to it than that.
Certain women, believe it or not, are also the problem.
Finally, after four years, the WNBA began to get some national love last season when the Houston Comets won their fourth-straight championship.
However, it became tarnished when the team's leader Cynthia Cooper compared her Comets to the Chicago Bulls dynasty.
No, Cynthia, no.
The only thing the Comets have in common with the Bulls is that they both play basketball. There is no way you can compare a Bulls dynasty, which was in a league that has been around for decades, to the Houston Comets.
Cynthia, baby, you're part of the reason your games only get about 8,000 people.
I love it when I see women playing basketball, soccer, track or any other legitimate sport.
However, women's boxing is straight ridiculous. If the women boxers were serious about fighting and knocking other women out, I would be all for it.
But the reality of the situation is that women's boxing has turned into an open forum for the daughters of boxing legends to talk trash.
Laila "Madame Butterfly" Ali, daughter of the all-time greatest fighter, Muhammad Ali, is not only making a mockery of women's boxing, but her family as well.
Laila is claiming she is the best women's fighter in the world, but hasn't even fought anyone up to par.
"Madame Butterfly" is demanding too much money to fight legitimate boxers so she now fights 48-year-old self-proclaimed ex-hookers.
Good job Laila.
That's a quick way of flushing your family's boxing reputation down the toilet. How are you going to get any respect for yourself or the sport if you're fighting ex-hookers?
Unless a number of people shape up, women's sports are never going to receive the love they truly deserve.
