On the homepage of ESPN.com tonight, one of the promoted headlines on the homepage was that Danica Patrick was getting divorced after seven years of marriage to Paul Hospenthal. What I found the most interesting of this was that Danica Patrick, who is a prominent female athlete, and her marriage breaking up was newsworthy on a sports media outlet. We talked in class about how female athletes are usually portrayed as wives or mothers when they are talked about in the media and this is another example. The first two paragraphs of the article talks about the divorce and then when the couple got married. After that, the rest of the article outlines Danica's career as a race car driver. This article further illustrates how sports media portrays female athletes differently than male athletes, as ESPN.com doesn't promote male athletes' divorces on their homepage, but when it happens to a female athlete like Danica, it's all of sudden newsworthy.
Abbey McNamara
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