My Rhetorical Case Study

For my proposal, I decided to isolate the event of when WUSA (the Women's United Soccer Association), the first professional women's league in America shut down after just three seasons. Basically this argument has a variety of stakeholders because A LOT of money is involved (believe me, we're talking a $40 million budget spent through by the end of the first season). The argument also has a variety of pathos, ethos, and logos, referring to how and why the whole program got started (hype after the world cup win) and how and why it was finished--the three appeals continue to come across, obviously, in reactions to this shut down for many female soccer players around the nation. This argument is pretty recent (2003), so I think I can find a good amount of national sports news on it that is primary. I can make an overarching connection as well to how women's sports function in America, based on the arguments I uncover. The "culture of assertion" will fall into it all easily through the primary resources, I think. I expect to look for these resources at the library and/or via Internet. I also think I can make a connection with this argument to today because the women's pro league is actually re-opening this spring. Perhaps what I discover will allude to reasons for this as well?

Overall, I chose this event because it is something I am very interested in. I've played way too much soccer for one girl, and the closing of the women's league was so sad for me! :( I've always wanted to dig in and find out more about why it happened and what people in that industry had to say about it. I think those facts alone will drive me. I also think that this argument has the potential to release different kinds of primary texts that I can preen relatively easily, I hope.