Women’s sports deserve more media coverage

Re Girlcott, March 28 On the front page! Wow!

The sad thing about women’s sports is that it doesn’t receive the coverage and the funding that it deserves. Nothing in the sports section today.

If this paper and others dedicated at least one page to women’s sports in their male-dominated sports sections, you would be finally serving 50 per cent of your readers. It’s been my complaint all my newspaper-reading life.

Women in sports get almost nothing but crumbs, the occasional story to satisfy them and all the sports-minded little girls that look for heroines and inspiration.

Devote at least one page to women’s sports. Is that too much to ask? If you increase their exposure, the funding will follow. M. Schooff, Orangeville, Ont. Re Canada completes clean sweep, March 27 On Sunday, the Canadian Women’s Curling team, led by Rachel Homan, made history in Beijing by winning the world women’s curling championship in 13 undefeated games. Why wasn’t this front-page news in Monday’s paper? Molly Saunders, Toronto