{"id":74396,"date":"2015-09-11T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T22:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74396"},"modified":"2015-09-11T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T22:03:31","slug":"why-womens-sports-get-less-primetime-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=74396","title":{"rendered":"Why Women\u2019s Sports Get Less Primetime Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/heartiste.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/07\/why-womens-sports-get-less-primetime-coverage\/\">From Chateau Heartiste<\/a>: Really, the only reason men choose to watch women\u2019s sports at all is for prurient reasons, such as the exciting but rare glimpse of a wardrobe malfunction, or the slo-mo replay of pertly bottomed volleyball players diving into the sand. Otherwise, men will pass up women\u2019s sports as long as a men\u2019s sport is on another channel. 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