Same As It Ever Was

I was paging through the Sun-Times’ sports section yesterday when I came across two stories opposite one another, on the WNBA’s Chicago Sky victory over the Seattle Storm and Michigan’s win over Ohio in the Little League World Series. Which do you think was longer, by a lot? There was one female player, Maddy Freking, who played in the LLWS this year, the first since Mo’ne Davis in 2014. Davis has since switched to college softball. Clare tells me that the ratings for the D-I softball world series continue to outpace those for its baseball counterpart. Any college players hoping to move onto the National Pro Fastpitch League will have to think again; at the first of the month, the league suspended operations effective immediately. Clare can’t figure why those ratings for the college game don’t translate into success for the pro game. Mo’ne Davis made the varsity baseball team at her high school but quit after a year because all she did was sit on the bench.