Welcome back! For those who celebrate, I hope you had a great 3 day weekend celebrating the 4th of July. For me, my company didn’t give us Monday off which was a huge L move, but I can’t truthfully say my effort was the same compared to a non-holiday Monday anyways.

While I was taking advantage of the holiday weekend, I found myself chatting with one of my friends about professional league sport teams: NBA, MLB, NFL, and for a quick moment, WNBA. My friend, Lacy, could not name one professional sports team outside of the Atlanta Braves (home team) in any sport and I was caught by surprise. I would tell her a team name such as “Lakers” or “Nuggets” or “Warriors”, thinking I was giving her easy teams to guess. To my surprise, she couldn’t tell me the city the team was located in, the state, or even the full name for the team. And we covered all leagues.

This got me thinking.

Not only could Lacy not list any male dominant team in any sport, she couldn’t list a women’s professional team in any sport as well. This gave me hope. One of the reasons why I wanted to start She Scores, was to provide fans and hopeful fans of the sport with a fun resource that covered the sport in a light hearted way. She Scores is easy to read, quick to read, and enjoyable to read. 95% of the content out there now is like an echo chamber. It’s a bunch of journalists and wanna-be journalists creating content for the current fanbase that it already has. That’s not enjoyable content and it’s the same content with a different authors name.

It’s people like Lacy that I want to reach though this blog, but it’s also the people who are polar opposite of Lacy that I want to reach with this blog as well. I want to find that happy medium of fans who love reading and consuming anything about women’s college basketball and I also want to reach those like Lacy - the ones living in La La Land.

Now let’s talk shop

How do you bring “it” up?

How do you talk about women’s basketball over your morning coffee at work? Or at the water cooler? At the bar, dinner table, in a line? It’s simple to talk about what just happened during the game Saturday night, but we all know which game that is, and it’s not women’s basketball. If you find yourself in an awkward silence moment, we are going to provide you with a few natural was to just casually bring up the sport.

Scenario 1: You’re waiting in a long line at the grocery store with nothing to do but stare at the magazines in front of you.

You: slight glance at the stranger behind you “That looks just like that incoming freshman at Arizona”

Stranger: blank stare

You: “Oh sorry. Not a sports fan?”

Stranger: confused “Not a fan of talking in line at the grocery store.”

You: “Ok talk to you later”

AND SCENE! You just won your first teaching lesson all in the name of women’s college basketball. That stranger behind you didn’t have the slightest clue who was on that magazine (could have been a Kardashian for demonstration purposes or Angelina Jolie) but you just told him that there’s a random hot-shot freshman headed to Arizona. And that memory will stay with him as he happens to witness coverage of wbb in the future. Because of you.

Next up, Scenario 2: You’re at the bar. It’s a Tuesday night in January.

Stranger: Ugh! Turn it off!

Maryland is playing TAMU in a pre-season game on TV

You: internally talking yourself out of what might happen now that you’re 3.5 beers deep

You: “Keep it on, Tim!”

Tim is the 47 year old bartender with a bartender belly

Stranger: rude glance in your direction

You: “There’s only 1 quarter left, you’ll be fine.”

AND SCENE!

Now Stranger #2 is stuck at the bar with ~15 minutes of women’s college basketball to consume, all because of you.

Listen guys, this is very practical and easy stuff. It doesn’t need to be complicated. With a little bit of lies and confidence, you are planting the seed to someone who doesn’t yet know where they lie on the Kim Mulkey stan train.

Give it a shot and share your experience! So far, we've achieved a 100% success rate, and we're confident you'll have a similar outcome. If it doesn't work out, it was because of your poor delivery, but if it works out, you’re welcome.

Happy trying & see you next week!

-SS

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