Early last summer, the team from the University of Arizona defeated the University of Tennessee for the NCAA Women's Softball World Series Championship. The games were bitterly - but cleanly - contested and the games of the tournament were typically played as closely as the length of a finger nail, and in one case it was literally so. So what's the big deal you ask?
Just this - for the first time in the history of televised sport (so far as I can discern), a women's collegiate sports contest OUTDREW a men's professional championship playoff event (the Stanley Cup) on the tube.
If anyone knows of a prior instance of this sort, I'd like to know of it. Meanwhile, the pitcher for Arizona carried off two ESPY awards, and UA is ranked currently #1 going into the softball preseason drills.
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