As John McEnroe famously said, "You cannot be serious." A study of 19 subjects concluded that women watch sports merely as a way to connect with their husbands? Oh, those poor passive dears with no control of the remote and nothing better to do.
I'll have to run this by my friend Kim, with whom I owned season tickets to the Kings for seven years and who got up at the crack of dawn to watch the finals of Wimbledon. Or Mary, whose Sunday worship of the Packers rivals my own for the Patriots. My morning Tour de France ritual is of scant interest to my husband, but we did watch golf all afternoWhen American Legion Chaplain Bill Cook peered through the chain-link fence at the windswept landscape — a broken runway, scrubby fields and green foothills in the distance — he remembered the Phantoms.
The fighter jets were once a regular sight, slicing through the air over what was for decades a bustling military base.
"The jets would just roar," he said on a recent afternoon at the old U.S. Marine Corps Air Station El Toro.
Now the Vietnam veteran is leading the charge to transform a small piece of that land into a final resting place for Orange County's veterans.on last Sunday — and he didn't have to talk me into it.
This "study" just contributes to the current national trend of infantilizing women.
