I do believe there are now enough fans of each sport to make a team, or a league, sustainable over time. There seems to be a critical mass of fans of women’s sports building, and even in existence, that the time is right to pounce. Maybe that works for the soccer and maybe that works for basketball and maybe, if the women’s hockey tries to maybe scale back from the idea that two leagues can survive and coalesce into one, it works, too. Now is the time for careful, thoughtful, business-based move to establish, if not leagues, certainly pro franchises to satisfy the growing demand. Wrong for business interests, I think, but bad for fans and bad for athletes and bad for the greater good.

Source: thestar August 11, 2021 13:07 UTC