French Open Video: Interview with Svetlana Kuznetsova - Roland Garros 03. June 2009
Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Serena Williams 7-6 (3), 5-7, 7-5 to reach French Open semis. Here is Svetlana’s post match interview.
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French Open Video: Interview with Serena Williams - Roland Garros 03. June 2009
Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Serena Williams 7-6 (3), 5-7, 7-5 in French Open quarterfinals. Here is Serena’s post match interview
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Below is a video - created and distributed by the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) - of Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief International Correspondent, on the importance of sport in the lives of women and girls.
It is vitally important that those in the pub...more
Not long ago, I wrote a post about why running speed doesn't matter in softball. In a nutshell, I was explaining why linear speed (or running fast in a straight line) isn't that important for softball and I made the point that what really matters in our...more
In this arm-wrestling match, we see a mother reminding her son that she is queen, never to be underestimated:
To all moms, present and future, Happy Mother's Day!
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Dear and Yonder is an ocean odyssey of the female kind. Featuring surfers Lisa Andersen, Kassia Meador, Sofia Mulanovich, Sally Fitzgibbons, Belinda Baggs, Linda Benson, Rell Sunn, Silvana Lima, Prue Jeffries, Coco Ho, Stephanie Gilmore, and more, the e...more
Remember that Texas/Texas A&M; softball game I discussed a couple blog posts ago? Well, in the third inning commentators Beth Mowins, Jessica Mendoza, and Michele Smith interviewed Dr. Donna Lopiano who was recently named Chair of the Women's Baseb...more
Megan Moulton-Levy, USAAmerican Megan Moulton-Levy has turned her world travels as a professional tennis player into an opportunity to get in some spectacular photography. Recently Megan's tournaments have taken her to the African and European continents....more
The conversation then turns to the not only the state of women's MMA but women's sports in general and how the pay scale is so different in each sport between the genders (except for tennis and golf, maybe), making it difficult for women to make it...more
I absolutely LOVE this campaign, it is too much fun!In this first video you see DSRL coaches Eli and Peyton Manning and Venus and Serena Williams put their 'twist, lick and dunk' coaching skills to work as they develop team strategy. Listen to the hard c...more
This classic Nike ad from 1995 is great still to this day as it really helps hit home the benefits of girls playing sports!
Getting girls active and involved in sports is one of the best things we can do for them. Sports teaches so many life lessons an...more
I first found out about Bear Butte Running Camp through a Nike Pack E-mail encouraging some of us Los Angeles area runners to audition for a new “Mockumentary” that Nike was filming. I read through the description of the ad and questioned whether or n...more
Kara Goucher was in tears. As soon as she hit the finish line. She had given it everything she had on that day and on the hundreds of days leading up to it: the tough training, the sacrifices, the tweaks in nutrition, the meticulous planning of each and...more
If you live in New England, the Monday of the Boston Marathon is practically a holiday. This year, they've really been building up the hype and for those of us who didn't think we could wait all the way until Monday for the action, the Boston Athlet...more
UPDATE (4/17/09):
Check out the women's invitational steeplechase at the Mt. SAC Relays (commentated by Yours Truly). The winner, Olympian Lindsey Anderson, ran a world-leading time.
USA women steeplers, in the first semi-final race of Olym...more
Check out this "mockumentary" just released by Nike. They even got some pretty high-profile runners to participate. That's Lauren Fleshman, sub-15 minute 5000m runner, naked behind a guitar. And at the end, that's Adam and Kara Goucher, ...more
… as if you needed ideas.
Today is the last day you can vote for your favorites in the Sport for Change contest finalists run by Nike and Ashoka. This post contains links to the finalists, as well as some social media they’ve shared with the world.
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Do you have what it takes to be the fastest women’s hockey player possible? Try this speed test to see how you stack up.
Try it out and share your results in the comment box below.
And come back to Total Female Hockey Club tomorrow to see how you m...more
Highlights from the Washington Freedom and Chicago Red Stars’ 1-1 tie on April 11, 2009 including Lindsay Tarpley’s second goal in as many games and the Freedom’s first WPS goal, tallied by Becky Sauerbrunn.
Courtesy of: WPS
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Attention New York Liberty fans - you can get free popcorn at games at Madison Square Garden.
If you're anything like me, your ears just perked. If only I lived near New York...
Some background - The WNBA's New York Liberty tickets went on sale last wee...more
