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Hey, Hollywood: What do you have against women's sports?

LOS ANGELES - In the opening moments of "The Wolves," Sarah DeLappe's highly acclaimed one-act play, members of a high school girls soccer team warm up for an indoor game. As they stretch, they talk. Some argue about whether an elderly Cambodian leader found guilty of genocide should be punished so late in life, others about the effectiveness of tampons over pads.

The juxtaposition of the two topics in an overlapping roundelay of conversation is supposed to be a bit funny, a bit alarming and very unexpected, and in the Echo Theater production I recently saw, it was all of those things.

Though not as unexpected as seeing a women's sports team depicted in a play.

As the mother of two young female athletes, I was surprised

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