Why aren’t women’s sports treated like sports?
Brooklyn: There’s a popular saying on T-shirts today: “Everybody watches women’s sports.” Apparently, that’s everybody except the Daily News! Reading your sports section every day, you would never know that women are involved in sports.
Locally, for example, New York’s women’s soccer team Gotham FC won the championship two years ago and was back in the championship game last year — no mention. New York has a women’s ice hockey team and there’s going to be a new women’s soccer team in Brooklyn. Except for an occasional article about the New York Liberty, a U.S. Open women’s final, a few articles during the Olympics or a Caitlin Clark article, you do not cover women’s sports. In this day and age, it’s truly embarrassing. You should be ashamed!
Your sports calendar box only includes the New York Liberty when it comes to women’s sports. Last month, you published the NCAA tournament men’s bracket, but not the women’s! There was a two-page article on Rick Pitino (“Rick: Don’t call SJU’s return to prominence a ‘redemption’ story,” March 18), yet recently, NYU women’s basketball coach Meg Barber was named Division III coach of the year — no mention! And by the way, the NYU women’s basketball team won this year’s championship, which they won last year!
Come on, Daily News, don’t pretend women’s sports don’t exist. More people watched the women’s Final Four last year than the men’s! It’s been more than 50 years since Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs. Your coverage is a perfect example of the inequity of women’s sports. It’s not 1973 anymore! Carmen Casas
Ice-cold adulation
New Hyde Park, L.I.: Longtime Vladimir Putin supporter Alexander Ovechkin, who proudly shares his Instagram profile picture with the tyrant, passed Wayne Gretzky for most NHL goals (895) in the area that is home to the most Ukrainians in the country. Ukrainian hockey fans had to stomach Islanders fans rapturously cheering, along with recorded messages from the best of America: Michael Phelps, LeBron James, Simone Biles and Derek Jeter. While they might not be expected to know of Ovechkin’s unwavering admiration of and friendship with Putin, including praising his annexation of Crimea and Ukraine invasion, seeing Gretzky cheerfully pass the baton was a stab in the heart. Gretzky has often spoken about being proud of having some Ukrainian heritage, voiced how Russia should not be able to participate in international hockey and even appeared in a documentary about NHL greats of Ukrainian descent. One wonders how the fog of athletic accomplishment could so obscure who he is heralding. Sean Roman Strocky
Function reductions
Bronx: Optimum cable keeps taking away and taking away. First, we — their customers — can no longer search by spelling out movies we’re looking for. Now, from On Demand, we’re no longer able to put a movie or series episode in their “cart” for future viewing. And they don’t even give the respect of contacting us whenever they take away functions we used to have. Here’s the kicker: Optimum doesn’t lower the price! Are these corporate decisions blind to not caring about their customers? Eric Cummings Jr.
Room for improvement
Rego Park: Recently, the MTA introduced a new NYC subway map. I think something is still missing. A long time ago, I suggested including the Manhattan address locator (or finder) in the subway map and in the Manhattan bus map. The locator can be useful for city residents and tourists. But the MTA decided to include the locator only in its Manhattan bus map. The main reason for not putting additional information in the subway map was lack of room. But I think there is a lot of room for the locator there. On the bus map, it’s size is only 6 inches by 1 inch. Victor Maltsev
Disarm dangerous drivers
Brooklyn: Miriam Yarimi, a suspended driver with 21 speeding tickets and five red light tickets, killed a mother and her two daughters on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn. Many are rightly calling for harsher speed laws. Speed was certainly a factor, but far more important was the lack of law enforcement to stop her. Where are the traffic laws that enable police to take this driver off the streets? Anyone with five moving violations in 24 months should lose more than their license. Impound the damn car! Suspending a reckless driver does nothing to stop them. They continue to drive. Why must we wait for an entire family to be destroyed before law enforcement can step in and take the car? Someone with this many violations has already demonstrated a complete lack of concern about other people and their children. Pass safety laws and give them some teeth. Mike Fallo
Over-publicized
Waxhaw, N.C.: Can you tell me why you feel it necessary to publish Yarimi’s picture in the paper for consecutive days? She was breaking the law and needs to be punished, and not by publishing her picture in the paper. Glenn Decker
Picture of ill health
Denver: After recently watching President Trump teeing off on the golf course, I hope someone in his circle will gracefully encourage him to focus on physical fitness and his diet. Maybe walk the golf course, no cart riding. Please make America healthy. Mike Sawyer
Give ’em what they wanted
San Francisco: If there is any justice at all in this country, the people who supported Present-dunce Ronald McDonald Trump will be hurt the most by his insane policies, be it the stupid tariffs or the chainsaw-style federal cuts. This should be the fair and equitable result of these moronic policies. Jimmy Layton
Happening here
Garden City, L.I.: About 100 years ago, a man had most of Germany hypnotized into believing only he could run that country. He started by annexing countries that wanted nothing to do with him but would benefit his country. Then he slowly took away citizens’ rights and jailed and deported those who were not like him. Elections became meaningless because he had his militia install him permanently as leader. It did not end well. This scene has played out in several countries, and the only people who benefit are the crooked leader and his most faithful followers. If anyone thinks that can’t happen in the United States, guess again. Look around, it’s happening now! Paul Falabella
No fiddle
Yonkers: Voicer Ralph D’Esposito claimed that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. This is historically inaccurate, as the fiddle had not been invented in Nero’s time. Nero was at his villa when the fire erupted, but he rebuilt Rome bigger and better. Frank Brady
Defensible deportation
Terre Haute, Ind.: The mainstream media portrays Salvadoran reputed MS-13 gangster and human trafficker Kilmar Garcia (“Judge to Don: Retrieve wrongly deported man,” April 7), who has alleged criminal ties to and connection with criminal elements throughout Central and South America, as an innocent individual previously living in Maryland with a wife and son. Garcia is not a U.S. citizen. His defense counsel claims he remains under the umbrella of temporary protected status under a 2019 order protecting him from deportation. Garcia has no legal standing in American courts to challenge the government’s current order that he is prohibited immemorial from returning to the U.S. Yet, legacy cable and print media culture defends this guy with such vigor, notwithstanding his alleged criminal background. Astonishing! It just never stops with these media types! Earl Beal
Read up
Bronx: I don’t know where Voicer Thomas Fraumeni Jr. gets his political information from, but here is my advice: Be informed, not influenced. Take a walk to your closest public library and pick the book “Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC” and learn her history, then make a judgement of her by yourself. Virgilio Carballo
There I was
Manhattan: Thank you for publishing “Just picture these women photographers” (April 7). I am in the photo! Debra L. Rothenberg is the best thing that ever happened to photography. It was an amazing photoshoot on Sunday. I am honored and thrilled at this historic event. Iconic! Thank you, Daily News! Eva Julietta Tortora
