Word: jockã
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...firing of Don Imus makes me cringe. Through all the talk of the shock-jock??s insult to Rutgers’ women’s basketball, the meaning of his words for women’s sports has somehow been woefully lost. The networks’ knee-jerk response—silencing Imus —fails miserably to deal with the question at hand: why are women’s sports still a joke...
...think the shorts are maybe more, uh, advantageous than the headband, because the shorts look like you’re resilient to the weather. With the headband, people thought I was trying to be a jock??[and] my general demeanor, nerdy interests, musical interests worked against that image as well. So I think I made a lot of enemies and had a lot of people judge me before I got to actually meet them and give them a little of what I really have to offer...
...concentration distribution for Harvard’s varsity athletes and surveying the motivations behind their concentration choices, it seems that not only do most athletes stray from the courses of study expected of them by their peers, but those who do stick to the “typical jock?? majors are rarely motivated by the promise of an easy ride to a college degree...
...participate in highly visible sports—football, men’s and women’s hockey, and men’s and women’s basketball, for instance. Those teams attract the largest fan base and their members have come to typify the “jock?? norm at many of the nations’ colleges...
...it’s equally true that members of the most prominent women’s sports opt for psychology, often considered the female “jock?? alternative to economics or government. Half the members of the women’s hockey team will graduate with degrees in psychology, as will 30 percent of the women’s basketball team, though it should be noted that these teams have smaller rosters than some of their male cohorts...