I can understand the colleges having second thoughts about giving her a scholarship after finding out she was pregnant given the weight gain and other physiological changes that go along with that. That's certainly not to say that someone couldn't have a baby and come back to be a great basketball player--that has happened--but when you are gambling on a teenager, that certainly has to be considered. When a male player gets someone pregnant, those physical changes are not there. Of course, there are responsibilities thrust (hopefully) upon both parents, and that could take this argument in any number of directions, although I would also argue that the mother more often than not (and particularly in a non-married situation) bears more of those responsibilities. Again, all situations are different, but when you have a limited amount of money and a limited number of scholarships to give out, you have to weigh all of these factors. Now the fact that the WNBA requires a 4-year degree, on the other hand. That is news to me and is completely ridiculous.

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