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Women Talk Sports

News, Commentary, Features about Women in Sports

September 30, 2014 By Pretty Tough

Venus in play, Diana in war: What chess and poker teach us about competition and women’s psychology

There???s a strong case to be made that women aren???t necessarily disadvantaged in any way relative to men when involved in competitive, opponent-based games. Unfortunately, the notion that the so-called fairer sex isn???t cut out for highly competitive situations remains unfairly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Psychology

September 12, 2014 By

My American Record, by Molly Huddle, with Sports Psych insights by Roisin McGettigan

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Filed Under: Inspiration, Psychology, Running, Sports, SportsPLUS, Track & Field

October 23, 2013 By SportyEsquire Leave a Comment

The Lady Trainers

Earlier this week Sue Falsone announced via twitter that she was resigning from her position as the head athletic trainer (AT)+ACo of the LA Dodgers.+ACY-nbsp+ADs In 2011, Falsone had become the first female head AT of a major league male professional team in the United States.+ACY-nbsp+ADs It took until 2011 to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Action, Baseball, Basketball, Business, Career, Discrimination/Title IX, Football, Health & Fitness, Injuries, Men's Football, Men's Sports, NBA, NCAA, OpEd, Psychology, Research, Rules of the Game, Sexism, Sports, Sports Medicine, SportsPLUS, Student-Athlete

September 25, 2013 By

Jenny Simpson: How to perform when it counts

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Filed Under: Inspiration, Psychology, Sports, SportsPLUS, Track & Field

July 29, 2013 By EmilyAzevedo Leave a Comment

My Athlete life by @emilyazevedo

My life as an athlete has been a small amount of luck, a hell of a lot of hard work and an indefinite amount of sacrifice.+ACY-nbsp+ADs I wish I could say that an Olympic athlete+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s life is as glamorous as society would assume, but our jobs are a bit unorthodox and often times leave us with no … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Action, Career, Coaching, College, Exercise, Fun Stuff, Gear & Equipment, Health & Fitness, Inspiration, Media, Media/Marketing, More, Multisport, Nutrition, Olympics, Paralympics, Personal, Psychology, Recruiting, Sponsorship, Sports, Sports Medicine, Sportsmanship, SportsPLUS, Student-Athlete, Summer Games, Training, Wintersports

July 15, 2013 By Marissa Kastanek Leave a Comment

Now introducing: MARISSA KASTANEK!

My name is Marissa Kastanek and I am a new blogger on Women Talk Sports. I am taking this opportunity on my first blog to introduce myself and give a preview of some the topics I will be discussing in my blogs. Thank you for taking time to read my posts and I will do my best to write about some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Awards, Basketball, Books, Career, College, Family/Parenting, High School, HS/Club Basketball, Personal, Psychology, Sports, Student-Athlete, USA Basketball, W College Hoops, WNBA, Youth

July 1, 2013 By Total Female Hockey Club Leave a Comment

Get Your Mental Game In Gear

As hockey players and coaches, we often focus the majority of our time and energy on the physical side of the game. From on-ice practices to off-ice training, most of our resources go directly towards the +ACY-ldquo+ADs-hockey+ACY-rdquo+ADs side of things. But as baseball great Yogi Berra once said, +ACY-ldquo+ADs-90+ACU of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Health & Fitness, Psychology, Sports, SportsPLUS, Training

June 27, 2013 By WomenCANIntl Leave a Comment

CBC Special – Women’s Canoeing Should Have Place in Olympics

Canoeing has one of the poorest gender equality ratios of any Summer Olympic sport, and although female kayakers are allowed to compete in both the sprint and slalom disciplines, female canoeists are kept out of the Games altogether. CBC Sports Special: +ACY-nbsp+ADs-Women's Canoeing Should Have Place in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Action, Cause/Charity, Coaching, Discrimination/Title IX, Events, Fun Stuff, Health & Fitness, History, Inspiration, International/World, LGBT, Olympics, OpEd, Politics, Psychology, Research, Rules of the Game, Sexism, Sports, Summer Games, Swimming

February 12, 2013 By HeraeaMarketing Leave a Comment

Just for women sports 24/7 coming our way

+ACY-nbsp+ADs Sedona, AZ +ACY-ndash+ADs +AFs-b+AF0 Heraea Marketing Scores with New Partner, Sports Channel for Women TV +AFs-/b+AF0 Heraea Marketing is starting to gain some traction and is being recognized for supporting female athletes exclusively. +ACY-nbsp+ADs-They do not promote any men nor do they showcase any male … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Action, Baseball, Basketball, Boardsports, Boxing, Combo Sports, Cricket, Dance, Disc Golf, Equestrian, Events, Family/Parenting, Fans, Fantasy Sports, Fashion, Fencing, Field Hockey, Fishing, Football, Fun Stuff, Gear & Equipment, Golf, Gymnastics, Handball, Health & Fitness, Hike/Backpack, History, Ice Hockey, Injuries, Inline Skating, Inspiration, Lacrosse, LGBT, Masters, Media, Media/Marketing, Men's Sports, MMA, More, Motorsports, Multisport, NCAA, Netball, Olympics, OpEd, Outdoors/Adventure, Paintball, Personal, Politics, Polo, Psychology, Quidditch, Racism, Racquetball, Research, Roller Derby, Rugby, Rules of the Game, Running, Sexism, Skating, Ski, Skydive, Soap Box, Soccer, Softball, Sponsorship, Sports, Sportsmanship, SportsPLUS, Squash, Student-Athlete, Swimming, Table Tennis, Technology, Tennis, Track & Field, Training, Transgender, Travel, Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball, Watersports, Weightlifting, Wintersports, Wrestling, Yoga

August 8, 2012 By Fair Game News Leave a Comment

Olympic mettle has no gender

By Katie Culver How can one not be inspired by the Olympics?+ACE The 10 days of coverage I+ACY-rsquo+ADs-ve watched remind me of my spirited Olympic dreams. As a young gymnast, I was rapt by Nadia Comaneci (the first perfect 10+ACE) in 1980 and by Mary Lou Retton in 1984. Women+ACY-rsquo+ADs-s soccer years ago lacked the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events, Olympics, OpEd, Psychology, Sports, SportsPLUS, Summer Games

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