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Show WEDNESDAY, MARCH THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE WALDEN HARRINGTON continued from page 10 continued from page 9 gent of observers that NFL players are have discovered an unknown resource that provides an exciting diversion to the mundane tasks that fill our everyday lives women's basket- group of thugs, and is bandanban solution to best the that celedown on crack and nas did on as Tuesday. brations, they Those were the big recommendations of the competition committee: No bandannas. No headbands. No celebrations, organized or otherwise... In essence, nothing that could even remotely be interpreted as a sign of individuality. God forbid anyone display some personality, after all. And God forbid we ask a special teams player to rip the head off a punt returner and then actually accept that he can't instantaneously turn off the emotion or shut down the passion. It's just that after seeing the Terrell OwensEmmitt SmithGeorge Teague incident take place in a s Cowboys-49ergame last year in DalNFL execs believe that las, it's clear the incidents of showing up opponents have reached rampant levels and are largely responsible for the instigation of fights, brawls and melees that take place on the field. I understand their thinking. I just don't agree with it. The average person's problem with the NFL has less to do with the St. Louis Rams performing the following touchdowns than with the incessant slew of incidents we see on the nightly news. The apparel we are tired of seeing NFL players don are not bandannas, or headbands, but orange prison jumpsuits. If those executives are sincere in their desire to regain that puppy-do- g persona they believe they once had, maybe the edicts and mandates they should start filtering down to the athletes should have more to do with using good judgement, making better decisions, considering the potential consequences of their actions. They don't need to tell players to quit wearing bandannas underneath their helmets or gyrating wildly after returning a kickoff for a touchdown. They need to tell them not to attend prom parties and get in hot tubs with their teenage babysitters; not to have their pregnant sexual partners shot so they don't have to pay child support; not to engage in barroom brawls that result in two young men being stabbed to death. I hear Vikings coach and competition committee Dennis Green say these rules were precipitated because high school coaches maintain that whatever NFL players do, their high school kids will emulate. Well, people are influenced by what they see and hear, but that doesn't turn them into mindless puppets incapable of exercising their own sets of values. Mimicry is not inherent. Plenty of people saw "The Basketball Diaries" and listen to Marilyn Manson, and they didn't shoot up Columbine. Therefore, "to call this gesture an acknowledgment that sports figures are role models is hypocritical, and to believe that banning bandannas and taunting will solve anything is naive. But then, I guess, so are those who actually expected rational and meaningful alternatives. a on-fie- ld "bob-'n-weav- trend, not hearing. The two male sportscasters were not only degrading women's basketball but disparaging the very concept of women being involved in sports at ali. I was taken aback by his comments. What was he talking about? These girls are good. It finally dawned on me; I had had the opportunity to see and be a part of something special. that people are simply not Something watching...and I don't mean the XFL With today's outrageous ticket prices, arrogant athletes and incessant marketing that gets shoved down the throats of the avid fans at the men's game, the women's game was different and excit- I ball. I must admit that before February 2001, I was much like everyone else out there who never gave the women's game a second thought In fact, if it hadn't been for The Daily Utah Chronicle assigning me to the Utah w omen's beat, I would still be in the dark like the rest of America. While in Denver covering the Utah women's basketball team in the Sweet 16, 1 had the chance to take in a live radio broadcast court-sidafter the Ute practice. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, or rather. ing. Yes, exciting. Fortunately, excitement is not inhibited by e, gen- der. These girls got skills. Mad skills, to take a line 28, 2001 from Kobe's Addidas commercial. Maybe that's why men don't watch. Maybe they are afraid a woman will be better than their couch potato butts and Hall of Fame high school memories of glory. Over the past two months, while covering the Utah women's team, I have been exposed to an alternative kind of hoop action, and I like it. I found myself jumping out of my seat rooting o when you are sitting on for the Utes (a big behind to defeat New from as came row) they press Mexico to go undefeated in the Mountain West Conference regular season. I couldn't help it I was that excited. The women's game will never surpass the men's game in popularity in the eyes of the general public, but there is a competitive quality that can draw flow audiences to the dunklcss, testosterone-les- s it of women's hoops. 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