In the essay "Man That Was A Pretty Shot" it states, "the media continue to characterize women's basketball as being second rate when compared with men's basketball" (Billings, Halone, Denham)(296). ... In Mojca Doupona Topic and Frane Erculj's essay they state, "Despite the growing number of women engaging in sport, North American sport media have made almost no progress in terms of the quality and quantity of reporting on women's sport achievements.... Instead, focus is on character flaws, emotional dependency, anxieties, sexual identity, and role...