Show r Sex ex and an Sports Snorts arts K Katie tie Weaver Contributing Writer Sex and sports some say it goes nand and in hand Sex sells just about everything everything everything every every- thing including sports Women are known to be sex objects almost everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where else but do they thel have a break in sports 1 The University of Colorado has had some pr problems for allegedly using sex as a recruiting tool Dancers came to entertain players who were being recruited The dancers would strip and give lap dances So to entice people to the team they have to use naked girls not the sport itself In February Katie who was a place kicker in 1999 for the team alleged she was raped by a team team- mate Head Head coach Gary Barnett received a lot of pressure from the allegations allegations allegations allega allega- but it has been noted on the CNN that he implemented a strict discipline policy for the players Coach G Gary ry Barnett is getting the bad rap for things that have happened Gary Barnett is not the S problem with that culture Gary ary Barnett is a football coach said Jim Martin a Colorado University Regent In the media sex and sports correlate Take the Super Bowl for instance must we mention the half halftime halftime halftime time show with Janet Jackson one more time What about all the girl dancers who ripped most of their clothes off and danced around Nelly and P-Diddy P aka Puff Daddy Arent Aren't there more unique things to put on the halftime halftime halftime half- half time show than what we wesee wesee wesee see everywhere else in inthe the media What more could he ask for The female to male ratio is insanely outnumbered outnumbered outnumbered in the case of the media strip clubs and music videos In the media naked half-naked or naked women are all over the magazines late night TV and movies In Utah there are 12 female strip clubs alone in Salt Lake City and one male strip club Inthe In Inthe Inthe the music videos we dont don't see males their booties in the camera it is mostly females If Hruby wanted to see naked women then he should of gone to the strip club or how about just paying attention to his wife In the we have the Laker girls and not to mention the Jazz dancers The time outs and halftimes are to show women dancing It is sad that some people believe that sex sports and cars are all a man is interested in I think the human mind is more complex than that Olympic swimmer Jenny Thompson was featured featured featured fea fea- fea- fea on the cover of Sports Illustrated issue with her hands clenched over her bare breasts We did not see Tiger Woods naked on the cover with his hands placed over his golf balls so to speak said Karen in an article from the University of Manitoba More on that note about two years ago the Ladies Professional Golf Association brought in fashion experts to conduct conducta a seminar for its players The experts gave the players play play- ers tips on how to wear a shirt to emphasize or their breasts Players responded some quit wearing belts and others others oth oth- others oth- oth ers started wearing more feminine shoes Women have market to their looks with almost everything they do Women athletes get paid a lot less than men They make up for it by doing commercials commercials commer commer- commercials selling selling products and posing for Sports s Illustrated Serina Williams has been in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue for fox the past two years If people arent aren't focused so much on looks anymore with women's sports why would they w want t to pro pro- promote promote promote mote sex by doing the swimsuit issue There is a concern that the selling sex will just keep growing Although there is a correlation between sex and sports hopefully people will realize realize realize real real- ize ize that its it's about the game Sex sells But should sex be in every aspect of our sports entertainment Or for recruiting team members members members mem mem- bers There is kind of the attitude that this sex was part of the game said Richard Engelhorn associate associate ate professor of health and human performance at Iowa State University Its kind of a disturbing atti atti- atti- atti tude |