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I've never been a sports fan, but I'm a huge fan of the revolution in women's sports in the U.S. Title IX went in about when I was in junior high school, and the result has been a huge increase in the respect, encouragement, and resources girls get in the athletic world growing up. Not just women's sports, but women crashing men's sports.

The effect on our culture is huge.

I have a special place in my heart for women auto racers, because I am a car nut and because it's a boy's club where women can excel. What's required is endurance, precision, and courage.

GO DANICA!


Also, inexpicable picture of Danica having a toy car race apparently supervised by Madeline Albright on FOX News. ?

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Re: Humdinger!

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College sports is a mess in every way, more so the higher you go on the success ladder. I can believe that transplanting the messed-up values of high-profile college athletics from men into women would produce a monster.

I was thinking of the K-12 years, when kids are individuating and getting a sense of themselves socially. Encouraging girls to be powerful and successful in a whole new sphere has got to be good.