Great video. Via espnW: Melissa Isaacson, Marisa Moseley, Jemele Hill, Johnette Howard and Suzy Kolber review some of the key moments in women's sports history in the final installment of ESPN's Women's History Month roundtable discussion. … [Read more...]
March Madness time, baby
Here are my picks for the 2011 women's basketball tournament. If you want to join the WomenTalkSports bracket challenge, click here. Email me if you want to get involved in our pool. The highlights: - I have American's +ACM-1 favorite, UConn, going down in the finals to Stanford. - I have Stanford … [Read more...]
Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day! #NGWSD
Today, I'm celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day by actually playing. I've got a rec game scheduled for tonight at 7pm, and play with a community of women who live in NYC and have played competitive basketball at some point in their lives (most in college). It's a lot of fun, and … [Read more...]
Why the media needs to back off Taurasi
Over the past couple of years, I+ACY-rsquo+ADs-ve been searching tirelessly for real media coverage of women+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s professional basketball in Europe. With the exception of the athletes on Twitter, and a few sites like Eurobasket, FIBA and Basket Plus International, it+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s pretty safe to say that … [Read more...]
A Thought-Out Opinion of Women’s Sports… on Deadspin?
I'm just as shocked as you are. If you read this blog, you'll know I'm typically a critic of Deadspin and their perspective on women in general, and female athletes in particular. They're always game for a good joke … [Read more...]
Jean Ledwith King, Title IX, and The Women’s Center
This is a guest post from Kim Cumming, LMSW, Executive Director of The Women's Center of Southeastern Michigan. As Women's Center director, she is responsible for the administration and operation of all agency activities, including long-term planning and vision, budget management and development+ADs- … [Read more...]
Maybe It’s My Fault: From A Female Athlete
(Thank you, Michael Jordan and Lebron James, for inspiring this)+ACY-hellip+ADs. Maybe it+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s my fault. Maybe I led you to believe That I don+ACY-rsquo+ADs-t deserve to play, Or that girls don+ACY-rsquo+ADs-t belong in sports. Maybe I let you think That women+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s sports is easy.. Or that my whole life, I … [Read more...]
A tribute to women’s soccer pioneers
Awesome article in Sports Illustrated on the 2010 soccer retirement class. GREAT quote about the women, this is worth passing along: The 2010 retirement group helped put U.S. women's soccer on the covers of Sports Illustrated, Newsweek and Time during the same glorious week of 1999. So, thank you, … [Read more...]
How a Gawker video instigated embarrassment among female athletes
Snapshot from a YouTube video that's simply not funny A video was flying around the Internet this morning, and I debated all day whether or not I wanted to write about it. I chose to move forward because it's a topic that needs to be discussed. I … [Read more...]
Selling women’s sports: Build a community, and go local
I … [Read more...]