WNBA Brawl: Boxing or WWF?

Nicole Pasulka — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:15:00 GMT

As Scanner Verena pointed out yesterday, women's sports can get violent. USA Today is claiming this violence is the result of crappy ratings rather than crappy attitudes and while we agree that women can be as agro and nasty as men we haven't seen the WNBA get so much ESPN airtime since, well, ever. Every camera angle, replayed, slo-moed, analyzed discussed and dissected in more detail and depth than a WNBA championship game ever received.

So here's the thing. We think this fight is real, but the cynic inside our heads is watering a seed of doubt. Video after the jump. What do you say? Is it real? And if not, can you blame the league for trading a little cat fight for a little attention? Put our doubts to rest or destroy our faith in the honesty of female fury forever.

Trend Alert: Cat Fights in Underwatched Womens Sports Leagues.

Trend Alert: Cat Fights In Underwatched Women's Sports Leagues?

Ina Maier — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:50:00 GMT

We don't watch sports (unless they involve Justin Timberlake) but apparently there was a big brawl in the middle of the WNBA LA Sparks vs. Detroit Shock game last night...

USA Today is calling all conspiracy theorists to the front lines, calling it "a little too coincidental that the attention-starved WNBA had a rollicking good cat fight last night involving Candace Parker, Lisa Leslie and a whole lot of other members of the LA Sparks and Detroit Shock." We're with Jezebel on this one - women are entirely as capable of getting in a sports-related dust-up as men are. We (and by we, I mean me, Scanner Verena) remember getting our own version of worked up during a high-school basketball game - after a few too many "Blondie" cat-calls, we made the heated mistake of giving the rowdy crowd a middle finger. (Ooooh, fiesty!) Anyway, that's just us - and this fight looks nasty. You can't fake that kind of vitriol.

USA Today is using the Danica Patrick / Milka Duno towel-snapping confrontation from the other day as an alternate example. We call bullshit. Milka seems really annoying.

Scanner : WNBA Fight

WNBA Brawl: Boxing or WWF?

Trend Alert: Cat Fights In Underwatched Women's Sports Leagues?