Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. The principal objective of Title IX is to avoid the use of federal money to support sex discrimination in education programs and to provide individual citizens effective protection against those practices.
Doris Burke is the best basketball color analyst going today, be it NBA or college hoops. She provides nothing but quality insight every time she is on the microphone during a game; no nonsense and no fluff. Color analysts can get preachy and too gimmicky nowadays with the hyper-argumentative sports networks forcing them to try to cause controversy. Doris Burke is above all that B.S. She is the embodiment of class and professionalism.
Burke was a badass Big East baller at Providence before making the jump to broadcasting. Starting behind the mic at her alma mater, the cream rose to the top as Burke ascended her way to calling Big East men’s games, the primetime college hoops games on the 4-letter network, New York Knicks games, and eventually as a full time NBA talker on the Mickey Mouse’s sports channel. Since 1990 this woman has been kicking down barriers in a male dominated industry. I have always suspected that the character from Anchorman, Veronica Corningstone, was completely based on Burke.
On this Title IX Tuesday we salute the best damn basketball color commentator going today. You can have your Jeff Van Gundy on a soapbox and your Dickie V hootin’ and hollerin’ about diapers. Give me the information, the honesty, and the class from a real color analyst like the great Doris Burke.
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