Coverage

At least the Sun-Times ran a full-page photo of Chicago Sky forward Elena Delle Donne handling the ball.  Maybe they wanted to make up for the “coverage” that followed, all 34 words of it.  In comparison, the Tribune was downright effusive with 10 full paragraphs on the Sky’s game with the New York Liberty.  The Sky can’t really complain, though.  They’re the one local women’s professional sports’ team that gets TV time on the local sports, something I’ve never seen for the softball Bandits.  Is there pro women’s soccer in Chicago?  I honestly don’t know.

To the uninitiated, there might seem to be all sorts of women sports’ stuff on TV right now.  What that really means is Serena Williams at Wimbledon and the U.S. national team in the Women’s World Cup finals.  But ten days from now, you won’t see much of anything this side of beach volleyball.