Article updated: 7/1/2011 6:47 PM

Could women’s sports use some bad girls?

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Are women athletes too nice? Seattle Storm's Katie Smith (14) shares a recent laugh with Phoenix Mercury's Diana Taurasi, one of the more competitive stars in the league, during a game last month as a free throw was being shot. Patricia Babcock McGraw wants to know if you think women's teams would draw more attention and grow their sport if more athletes were edgier, nasty or polarizing, like some male athletes today.

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Men’s sports are full of polarizing figures who attract all kinds of attention. Patricia Babcock McGraw wonders if women’s sports would get more of a following if the athletes were edgier, more outspoken and more brash.