Of all of the NCAA championships that ESPN has the rights to, the only three "worthy" enough to air on ABC are
FCS Football
Women's Basketball
and
Women's Gymnastics
(Mia Taxpayer, see if any overseas sportsbooks are taking bets on who will get more mentions in the gymnastics coverage - Suni Lee, or Olivia Dunne?)

Speaking of which, I hope somebody told ABC not to expect anybody from either of the two HBCUs with women's gymnastics programs - Fisk and Talladega - as both are in the NAIA, and it's called the "NCAA championships" for a reason.

Meanwhile, ESPN won't even air the men's gymnastics final; it's only on the NCAA.com streaming website. Of course, the fact that there are only 15 NCAA schools in the country (two of which are Division III) that even have men's gymnastics programs may
have something to do with that.

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On 2023-03-09, The NOTBCS Guy <don.p.del.grande@gmail.com> wrote:

Meanwhile, ESPN won't even air the men's gymnastics final; it's only
on the NCAA.com streaming website. Of course, the fact that there are
only 15 NCAA schools in the country (two of which are Division III)
that even have men's gymnastics programs may have something to do
with that.

Thanks, Title IX!

--
That a few of us need to be more in touch with our feelings has obscured
a deep truth: many more folks need to be much less in touch with theirs.
-- Eric Weinstein

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Meanwhile, ESPN won't even air the men's gymnastics final; it's only
on the NCAA.com streaming website. Of course, the fact that there are
only 15 NCAA schools in the country (two of which are Division III)
that even have men's gymnastics programs may have something to do
with that.

Thanks, Title IX!

I'd say something like, "Don't be ridiculous," but that pretty much hit the nail on the head. There are now four classes of Division I sports:
1. Football & men's basketball
2. The occasional "regional" men's sport (lacrosse, ice hockey, water polo) - well, that, and outdoor track & field at Nike U-ER, UH, Oregon
3. The women's sports they needed to add to spend enough money to satisfy the Title IX types; there's a reason pretty much every halfway-decent women's volleyball school has its own women's volleyball arena separate from the basketball one
4. The additional men's sports they needed to add so they have the minimum six, so it doesn't look like it's "football, men's basketball, and women's sports - the rest of you don't matter."

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Con Reeder, unhyphenated American <constance@duxmail.com> wrote:

On 2023-03-09, The NOTBCS Guy <don.p.del.grande@gmail.com> wrote:

Meanwhile, ESPN won't even air the men's gymnastics final; it's only
on the NCAA.com streaming website. Of course, the fact that there are
only 15 NCAA schools in the country (two of which are Division III)
that even have men's gymnastics programs may have something to do
with that.

Thanks, Title IX!

I think this one is more that the sports audience prefers women in tights
to men in tights.

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On Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 6:52:18 PM UTC-8, xyzzy wrote:

Con Reeder, unhyphenated American <cons...@duxmail.com> wrote:

On 2023-03-09, The NOTBCS Guy <don.p.de...@gmail.com> wrote:

Meanwhile, ESPN won't even air the men's gymnastics final; it's only
on the NCAA.com streaming website. Of course, the fact that there are
only 15 NCAA schools in the country (two of which are Division III)
that even have men's gymnastics programs may have something to do
with that.

Thanks, Title IX!

I think this one is more that the sports audience prefers women in tights
to men in tights.

Unless they run around and then they get in fights...

Mike (Laaaa-la la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaaa-la la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaaa-la la-la-la-laaaaaaaaaaa...)

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On 2023-03-10, xyzzy <xyzzy.dude@gmail.com> wrote:

Con Reeder, unhyphenated American <constance@duxmail.com> wrote:

On 2023-03-09, The NOTBCS Guy <don.p.del.grande@gmail.com> wrote:

Meanwhile, ESPN won't even air the men's gymnastics final; it's only
on the NCAA.com streaming website. Of course, the fact that there are
only 15 NCAA schools in the country (two of which are Division III)
that even have men's gymnastics programs may have something to do
with that.

Thanks, Title IX!

I think this one is more that the sports audience prefers women in tights
to men in tights.

Touche. But Men's swimming, soccer, and even wrestling are also abandoned because of the problem. A problem made even more ludicrous by the lesser
female desire to participate in competitive sports.

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one year of experience twenty times over. -- Anonymous

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