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think people don't click on women's sports? I analyzed 48 features written in the michigan daily between march 2019 and now. eight of the top 24 were on women's sports, despite women's sports stories making up just under a third of the sample.
the women's sports stories didn't beat the very most popular football or men's basketball stories, but even then, only half the football + men's basketball features beat our top features on women's sports
the average number of views of all the features in my sample was 2,184 — but that includes four very popular football and MBB features with over 5,000 views. Take out *just* those four, and the women's sports features averaged just as many views as the men's
student newspapers obviously aren't the same as professional outlets, but at this student newspaper, coverage of women's sports more than held its own — and that's without a hugely transcendent national star like Sabrina Ionescu
