Re: David Stern on WNBA

>> Stern insists women's league will go on
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>... playing during summer.
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Anyone remember the USFL?  Well, when it started out, it played in the
springtime.  I don't know if the league ever knocked 'em dead at the box
office, but for certain the death knell of the league came in its 3rd or 4th
season when they opted to play in the fall -- up head to head with the NFL. 
Now they are an asterisk in the history of American sports.

I think it wise that the WNBA continue playing in the summer.  A move to the
winter season would surely cause the league's collapse.  A competition with the
NBA and college ball -- men's & women's -- would be a contest that the WNBA
could not hope to survive.  The typical basketball fan only has so much
disposable income to spend on the sport.  Even women's college ball has more
devoted (and numerous) fans.  I wish it weren't the case, but it appears to be
so.

Bottom line:  Keep WNBA to a summer schedule.

Jim