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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People don’t watch women’s sports except perhaps tennis. So I think this is fair. Professional sports are a business, not an entitlement.[/quote]

The NCAA men’s basketball championship (Purdue-UConn) drew a smaller TV crowd than the women’s final for the first time ever.

The men’s final on Monday (primetime): 14.82 million viewers.

The women’s final (Iowa-South Carolina) on Sunday (not in primetime): 18.87 million.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/womens-ncaa-final-bigger-tv-ratings-than-mens-first-time-1235870291/[/quote]

That's because they made the men's game much harder to access and also a crappier time slot.

This is all superfluous to the topic anyway.  Clark makes far less money because the WNBA doesn't make any money.  No one is entitled to a large paycheck just because they exist. Players like Clark will make more money professionally once the league starts making money. That's the way capitalism works.  If women cared so much about it then they'd start spending money on attending women's sports, buying merch, and subscribing to streaming services to watch women's sports.  You all have half the incomes anyway, so put your money where your mouths are.  Sponsors are under no obligation to dole out billions in advert dollars to a league that isn't profitable at the moment, not hasn't been for the last 20+ years.  What business person in their right mind would give a league billions of dollars when all it does is lose money? [/quote]

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