Women's sports have come a very long way in the last quarter century. More women and girls are playing sports, and corporate interest in female athletes as pitch people has increased too.

But you wouldn't guess it from watching TV news.

Last year, Los Angeles local news affiliates dedicated a little over three percent of airtime to women's sports. That's down from five percent back in 1989. On ESPN's SportsCenter, women's sports made up just two percent of its coverage.

Researchers at the University of Southern California and Purdue University crunched the numbers for a new report on women's sports coverage dating back 25 years.

Michael Messner, co-author of the study and professor of sociology and gender studies at USC, and

, USA Today sports columnist and commentator, join Take Two for a discussion about media coverage of women's sports.

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