This sporting life
Sep. 5th, 2006 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyAt yesterday's staff meeting, Brian announced, "I won't be here Thursday, I'm going to the RACGP CPD day. I'll look at the PGPPP PGY policy next week." Tragically, I understood every word (and initial) of that.
Today's radio coverage took us to the mysterious (to me, anyway) world of amateur women's basketball. Who names the teams? The City by the Sea's team is called the Mermaids. I don't know that this is really a good thing to name a team after - after all, you'd expect mermaids to be a bit limited on court, wouldn't you? Actually, they're really called the Harvey Norman Mermaids, because their main sponsor has naming rights. That always makes me twitchy. I don't mind putting a logo on the team shirt, but changing the name as well? So undignified.
At least the Mermaids have a name of their own. The local basketball club has obviously gone with a subtle maritime theme; the men's team is the Seahawks. The article I had to read today concerned two teams from cities further afield and larger than the City by the Sea, Ballarat and Bendigo. Their womens' teams? The Lady Miners and the Lady Braves, counterparts to the mens' teams of the Ballarat Miners and the Bendigo Braves. Ugh. I don't mind the Miners as a name, really - Ballarat likes promoting its history as a gold rush town*, so that works out quite well - but as far as I'm aware, Bendigo has never had a large population of Native American tribes. As for sticking "Lady" at the start for the women? That's just cheap.
* As opposed to the City by the Sea, which made its fortune by, ahem, whaling (we just look at them now, though). At least whales are a constantly renewing resource - I doubt that Ballarat has much gold left.
Today's radio coverage took us to the mysterious (to me, anyway) world of amateur women's basketball. Who names the teams? The City by the Sea's team is called the Mermaids. I don't know that this is really a good thing to name a team after - after all, you'd expect mermaids to be a bit limited on court, wouldn't you? Actually, they're really called the Harvey Norman Mermaids, because their main sponsor has naming rights. That always makes me twitchy. I don't mind putting a logo on the team shirt, but changing the name as well? So undignified.
At least the Mermaids have a name of their own. The local basketball club has obviously gone with a subtle maritime theme; the men's team is the Seahawks. The article I had to read today concerned two teams from cities further afield and larger than the City by the Sea, Ballarat and Bendigo. Their womens' teams? The Lady Miners and the Lady Braves, counterparts to the mens' teams of the Ballarat Miners and the Bendigo Braves. Ugh. I don't mind the Miners as a name, really - Ballarat likes promoting its history as a gold rush town*, so that works out quite well - but as far as I'm aware, Bendigo has never had a large population of Native American tribes. As for sticking "Lady" at the start for the women? That's just cheap.
* As opposed to the City by the Sea, which made its fortune by, ahem, whaling (we just look at them now, though). At least whales are a constantly renewing resource - I doubt that Ballarat has much gold left.
