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July is often the slowest season in sports and sports talk. The British Open is fun, but even with the advent of hi-def, it still looks like it was filmed in the 1970’s.
The baseball All-Star game was once great. Wimbledon and the Tour De France are European treats, but most people don’t follow tennis or cycling and lack great debate topics.
Which Williams sister is better would be discussed for about one minute before everyone stopped caring. The NBA and NHL grab at straws with free agency, and the NFL doesn’t really ramp up until August.
This is the season where hosts and blogs and papers try to do anything to create stimulating sports talk, and below we have the topics that are often discussed as having merit when in reality they have zero meaning.
10. Women should be paid the same amount of money men are in tennis.
The "equal pay for equal work" concept is one that is often difficult to measure in workplaces; however when work is equal, men and women definitely should have the same earning opportunities.
One small problem with the debate in tennis, men and women don’t work equal amounts. This debate grew during the height of popularity of women’s tennis, however now once again the men’s game gains more publicity because of the Federer-Nadal rivalry.
Federer and Nadal have played multiple epic five-set matches in the last few years, something even the greatest woman’s tennis player never does.
If the tennis women want equal pay, play three out of five sets. At that point, I would agree completely. Until then, they get less because they should get less.
9. Baseball, because of teams like the Yankees and Red Sox, create little hope for most teams in April.
Football probably has the most parity of any sport from top to bottom, but baseball is a close second.
Tampa Bay, Colorado, Detroit, and Houston have made the World Series the last 4 years. Teams like Pittsburgh fail because they have terrible ownership and leadership.
They can definitely compete if they had a vision. The Angels, The White Sox, The Red Sox, The Phillies and the Diamondbacks have all either ended incredibly long droughts or won their first title this decade.
If you want a sport that has little hope for most teams at the beginning of the season, look at basketball.
The Heat, The Lakers, The Celtics, The Pistons, The Rockets, The Bulls, The Spurs and The Sixers. Those are the eight franchises that have won NBA titles in the last 30 years. During the last 30 years in baseball, 19 franchises have won titles.
8. Is Brett Favre going to the Vikings?
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