In this weeks Des Moines Register, there was an article about the women's basketball team at the University of Tennessee. The female sports columnist was very critical about the fact that the women's basketball team still goes by the Lady Vols.(Volunteers)
Christine Brennan of USA TODAY Sports really ran Tennessee through the coals about the whole issue. A lot of the University's decision to keep the Lady Vols had to do with tradition and the legendary coach, Pat Summitt.
After the reporter kept going on and on about sexism and being stuck in the twentieth century, it seems to this 70 year old having lived through an age of changes in women's issues, it seems refreshing to hear that we are arguing over calling something "A Lady!"
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