Archive for January, 2010
Squire Barnes Plays of the Year
Squire Barnes of Global TV Sports regaled viewers with his Plays of the Year for 2009. Exciting stuff! There are some really talented athletes out there from soccer, hockey, golf, race car driving, skiing, bike racing/jumping, divers, tennis and so much more. I am always amazed at those that go the distance to win, risk life and limb, show their true passion for the sport to which they have dedicated themselves.
What was missing in all this excitement was – WOMEN! As always despite the existence of women in sports they apparently didn’t do anything all year that would grant them a coveted spot in his montage. In fact, the only women that made the highlights were:
- Two women who may have been playing soccer though we couldn’t see because all they showed us was one girl pulling the hair of the other.
- A female gymnast who was dismounting from the uneven bars and landing flat, face down on the mats after a failed attempt by her coach to catch her.
- A female athlete on what appeared to be a track celebrating something (we don’t know what) riding the mascot’s back which ended up with them both running into something and falling over.
That was it. Surely, a highly popular sports director such as Squire is more well rounded in his yearly sports analysis, isn’t he? Hummm…one might wonder?
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