Hometown Teams
With the pampered, communication challenged Lakers going d-o-w-n, baseball season in full swing, and the Olympic track and field trials (both on the track and in the courtroom), I am a happy sports fan. I've remedied my neglect of the sports sidebar--see the new Go Team! section. Now you can come for your Lunamania fix and then read about your favorite teams.
What remains a sports mystery is the egregious absence of a Bay Area WNBA team--and Sacramento is not the Bay Area. Two baseball teams, two football teams, one rather sad NBA team, and more queer choirs than all those combined. But not one WNBA team w/in BART commute. Who's asleep over at WNBA land? WNBA games are affordable and family friendly! Yes! If you don't know where the queer women of color go, check out a WNBA game! The queer factor aside, WNBA games are pure sports greatness.
1. Young women and girls get to see strong athletes that have yet to be tainted by BALCO.
2. Despite salaries on scale with the non-profit social work world, the players' love of the game is evident. Of course their near evangelical promotion of the league is in part motivated by a self-interested desire to see a viable pro-league in the U.S. This way the players do not have to be relegated to the relative hinterlands of *gasp* Italy or Japan. Regardless of motives, player friendliness and promo events are a good thing (cue Martha.)
3. T-spoon is the coolest athlete to grace a sports arena. OK, maybe she's in the top 5 along with Jackie Joyner-Kersee (RIP), Michelle Kwan, Ichiro Suzuki, and Mike Piazza.