WORLD CUP USA ’94 / QUARTERFINALS : Spotlight : SHE IS WOMAN, HEAR HER ROAR

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

July 11, 1994 12 AM PT

Should fans of women’s sports be outraged over the extended media coverage the World Cup has received in the United States?

Nancy Levin of San Francisco says so.

In her letter sent to sports departments all over the country, Levin throws the women’s sports coverage argument back in sports editors’ faces:

“I’ve heard it again and again: ‘Until there’s a demand for it, we can’t run stories. . . . Without a proven record of drawing crowds, you can’t expect the media to cover it. . . . Funny how that logic is applied (inaccurately) to women’s sports, but not to (men’s) soccer and the 1994 World Cup.”

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

WORLD CUP USA ’94 / QUARTERFINALS : Spotlight : SHE IS WOMAN, HEAR HER ROAR

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