The award for the most ridiculous, self-absorbed, overzealous all sports entertainment network in the world goes to...
ESPN, for the 10th year running.
They have once again proven that outside the 4 major sports, Tiger Woods, and the Williams sisters, you're really not much of an athlete. Unless you count token consideration of Cael Sanderson and -ahem- Sarah Hughes (don't even get me started on figure skating).
No offense to college athlete of the year Sue Bird (UConn BB) but a certain swimmer from Cal who set at least 6 AR and 1 WR over the short course season would have had my vote.
Anyone else? Natalie Coughlin, female college athlete of the year as awarded by the USMS discussion crew?
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Well, some parts of the United States had to move from their white base, Southern California in point. Many of the age groupers are still upper-middle class but are more becoming asian rather than white. Also, hispanics that have made it to the middle class or beyond are also moving up the ladder of swimming in Southern California. The white population in LA and Orange which are strong holds of swimming has decline in the 1990's, so the clubs brought in more non-whites. Also, even expensive sports like Figure Skating have about 30 percent asian and 15 percent hispanics in the area of Southern California. Blacks are less of a factor there, since their population is smaller than the asian population in Southern California. However as stated before asians have the money to do swimming or much more expensive sports like figure skating than hispanics as a whole, since they are more likely to be college educated. But as Rain man stated, you need to appeal more to the lower income which in many places in the southwest tend to be hispanic, where soccer or baseball or boxing are king.l
Well, some parts of the United States had to move from their white base, Southern California in point. Many of the age groupers are still upper-middle class but are more becoming asian rather than white. Also, hispanics that have made it to the middle class or beyond are also moving up the ladder of swimming in Southern California. The white population in LA and Orange which are strong holds of swimming has decline in the 1990's, so the clubs brought in more non-whites. Also, even expensive sports like Figure Skating have about 30 percent asian and 15 percent hispanics in the area of Southern California. Blacks are less of a factor there, since their population is smaller than the asian population in Southern California. However as stated before asians have the money to do swimming or much more expensive sports like figure skating than hispanics as a whole, since they are more likely to be college educated. But as Rain man stated, you need to appeal more to the lower income which in many places in the southwest tend to be hispanic, where soccer or baseball or boxing are king.l
