Women & Sports: Hannah's Journey Through the Storm

 This is interesting, because it seems to me every time you turn around there's a female anchor or sideline reporter in sports nowadays. As someone who is trying to get a sports analyst career off the ground as a [black] female, what bothers me is all the female anchors and sidelines, yet all the analysts (on TV) are still men. One of the excuses, as I've seen here, men are the ones who play college football/basketball and pro football/basketball. But then you see male analysts and coaches for WOMEN'S sports sometimes! And men don't play women's college basketball/football, etc.

Not to take anything away from what Hannah has done, because obviously it paves the way for women to move into more positions in sports...but being an anchor really seems unimportant next to being an analyst (the same being true for sideline reporting, and I've seen men lately saying those reporters are pointless, basically). Sure, people tune into to get sports recaps on ESPN, but more than anything we want to hear the analysis, the picks, the arguments between the analysts, etc. And the women are still not part of that. Even the male anchors get more say when the analysts are breaking down teams and game matchups than the female analysts do, and I don't know if that's because the female anchors don't speak up the same way male anchors do or what. But, for example, on CBSC, the male anchor on the show, I think it's called, "College Sports Tonight" doesn't act like just an anchor on the show.

Another interesting thing to me is how the males who work in sports always have a suit (or other "work"  clothes) on, but many of the women look "cute" or like they're going to a club. I mean, as much as sports has changed, there's still work to do. The job I just got offered with an online sports site doesn't even know I'm a woman, and honestly I hid my sex on purpose because I didn't know how my sports analysis would be received by my employers and knew it would add to criticism from male readers when they don't agree with me. Women like Jamele Hill and Heather Dinich are fine to write articles and blogs for sports and ESPN, but they definitely get more criticism.