That's a problem for USA Today columnist Nancy Armour.Armour has built much of her professional brand around finding sexism and misogyny everywhere she looks in sports.So, what happens when women reach a better position in the sports world than ever before?Armour has to look harder.Much harder.USA TODAY Sports Columnist Nancy Armour used a Sydney Sweeney ad, an AI joke and an arena rendering to claim sports still hate women.
(IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect)In a column published Tuesday, Armour argued that American sports are happy to take women's money, but don't want women in their space or to treat them with "even the slightest shred of decency."Strong claim.OUTKICK IS NOW AVAILABLE ON THE FOX NEWS APP: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOADWhat evidence did Armour use to support the idea that American sports, as a whole, don't want women around?A sports-betting ad featuring a nearly nude Sydney Sweeney, Arch Manning laughing at a stupid AI video, and an architectural rendering that included almost no women.That's it.That's her entire case.The arena rendering barely warrants a response.
An architectural rendering of Philadelphia’s future arena showed almost no women, the image was replaced within two days, and the building will be home to the city’s WNBA team.If that is evidence that women aren’t welcome in sports, the definition of evidence has lost all meaning.There's another problem, though.
Armour has no trouble finding misogyny in an advertisement, a joke or a computer-generated crowd.But when males take opportunities in women's sports, she attacks the women who object.That's not an oversight.
It's the clearest evidence that this isn't really about protecting women.Armour starts with perhaps the most absurd characterization of the three."A betting company tells women their only place in sports is as a sexualized object," Armour wrote.Wait, when did Novig say that?It didn't.Novig produced one advertisement featuring one woman, Sydney Sweeney, using sex appeal to p...