Sports play an important role in our country. It plays as a stress reliever as much as a stressor. Favored, played and watched by a lot of people, both women and men it is very popular around the world. Looking deeper into sports though is the respect women and men receive that actually play sports. It is interesting on how much people actually pay attention to women's sports oppose to popular men's sports. Do men and women athletes along with teenage high school athletes get different treatment from each other? If they do, is this fair that a pro male basketball star can basically earn way more than triple a female basketball stars salary. I guess it seems sports are just better suited for men.
             You can already tell by turning on your television and going to your sports channel that the chances of it being a male professional sport is about 9 out of 10. Women's professional sport's is barely paid attention and is on national television only about 2 times a year, that's the women's college basketball championships and women's college softball world series and the occasional and they have the occasional Olympics every 4 years. Also put on television but hard to follow is women's tennis and golf. But with the major sports in softball and college they get little exposure and are almost forgotten after college and into the pros. A perfect example of exposure is the little league world series. The boys get a whole complex with a pool, game rooms, high class hotels along with top quality fields ON national television where every game played in the tournament is televised, let me mention that they also get their own brand new equipment. The little league world series for girls are not as exciting for the girls as for the boys. My girlfriend who was fortunate to play in the little league World Series for softball barely got any exposure as only one game of the tournament was televised (Championship ga...