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Posted: 04/04/08 5:37 am ::: Q&A with Doris Burke

http://blogs.tampabay.com/twocents/2008/04/qa-with-espns-d.html

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I was broadcasting the WNBA at the beginning (in 1997) and I'll be honest with you, it wasn't good basketball. It just wasn't. And I think it was critiqued, mostly by men, and it was decided the women's basketball just wasn't very good. That was what you heard on talk-radio and sports shows and that's kind of the reputation that stuck for a lot of people.

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Posted: 04/04/08 2:47 pm ::: Re: Q&A with Doris Burke

pilight wrote:

http://blogs.tampabay.com/twocents/2008/04/qa-with-espns-d.html

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Wow...I am kind of surprised. To hear her broadcast back then, you would never guess that she felt she was broadcasting basketball that wasn't good. I guess maybe perspective changes over time. There's certainly no chance that a 24-second clock would have worked out in the early days of the W, so that speaks volumes about how much the game has changed since then. If nothing else it's nice to hear that type of honesty.

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