ESPN - UConn's winning streak -- which had stretched to 90 and brought the Huskies and women's hoops an avalanche of attention -- came to an end Thursday. It will be a particularly happy New Year's celebration for the Cardinal and their faithful, after a 71-59 victory Thursday ended mighty UConn's streak.
Ho-Hum, nothing to see here. I was going to write an extended recap to the end of this historic streak, but then something happened. I flipped on Fox 25 news and the two female anchors for the morning were discussing it and clearly had no clue how many games in a row they had won or how far back the streak reached (they mistakenly said 2006 instead of 2008). Honestly, if your own gender doesn't care about the streak that purportedly equals that of any mens streak shouldn't these ladies care? They're news anchors! This is news. This isn't your average girl off the street not giving a crap about woman's athletics, this is paid news anchors whose job it is to care about and make us care about what they're reporting on.
Sorry, this whole debacle is making me reconsider my stance that the UConn women's streak is as impressive as UCLA's from the 70's. If you can't get your target audience to care then how important can it really be? And more important, why should I care at that point?
