Interrogating inequalities in Sports Media: Examining gender/race representation in ESPN website

I will examine the weekly news feed on the ESPN website to get an idea of how race is represented in their most recent articles. There are not really any noticeable over representations of any particular race. Much of the Winter Olympics covers feature stories on white athletes, but the sports featured in the winter Olympics have also been historically more populated by white athletes. The other sports, specifically the big 3, feature a fairly balanced representation of black, white, and Hispanic race members. I did find it interesting the amount of media coverage Missouri's Michael Sam has been getting since he came out that he was gay. As far as the representation of male athletes vs. female athletes goes, it was overwhelmingly focused on Male Athletes. In fact, there was not even a tab at the top of the website to direct you to any female sports even if you wanted to view stories on them. If you were not from this country and had to base your idea about sports in American culture solely based on this website, you wouldn't even think that women played sports, besides the coverage of them in the Winter Olympics right now. This does back up the general attitude towards gender in sports within American Culture. There has been far more interest for Men's sports than there has been towards Female sports. As far as race goes, the stories simply focused on who happened to be the biggest story at the time, race did not seem to be a determining factor on who the majority of the stories were about. I also think this is a fair representation of how America views race in sports. They do not care if you are black, white, brown, red, or orange, as long as you can get wins, that is all the American public cares about.