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"I Chose SRAM" commercial starring Ali Starnes
by Alison M. Starnes Blog
posted July 8, 2011 at 10:27am

What do bike races and Star Alliance have in common? There are only a couple of places in this world where I feel important, not that feeling important is necessary, but it is nice every once in awhile. Bike Races and Star Alliance Frequent Flyer Progr...more

Natalie Coughlin photo shoot: Natalie as Esther Williams
by Athletic Women Blog
posted July 8, 2011 at 8:51am

Who better to channel Esther Williams than Natalie Coughlin? The connection is so obvious: two fantastically gifted athletes in the same sport, and camera friendly as she is, we should expect that someday Natalie will have a movie career to match Esther's...more

Run Like A Girl: A Documentary on the History of Women’s Distance Running
by Stephanie Perleberg: Believe and Run On!
posted July 6, 2011 at 9:23am

It amazes me how small this world is. It was a regular day at work when a rep for a shoe company came into the store to show us their goods. There were only a few people there that morning so me and my fellow co-worker went to greet them. After a few minu...more

Hot Girls - Do they Help or Hinder women's sport?
by The Rabbit Hole
posted July 5, 2011 at 9:05am

Gina Carano. Photo from Sports Champion Blog.Gina Carano. Anna Kournikova. Gabrielle Reece. Julia Mancuso. Jennie Finch. I give you the hot girls of their respective sports. All have considerable athletic resumes but they also receive(d) equal...more

Germany's Playboy Players & the "Butch Cliché"
by From A Left Wing
posted June 24, 2011 at 10:09am

As many readers of this blog will know, some German women who play competitive football posed for Playboy. These are not members of the national team, but they are women who play high level football in the country. March Presentation of 2011 WWC kitTitus ...more

Germany Women: More Playboy Than Play Ball
by Women in Sport International
posted June 24, 2011 at 9:56am

An Op Ed By JoJo RennieMembers of the women's Germany national football squad have recently taken part in a photoshoot for Playboy. It sends a somewhat confused message to fans, spectators and participants of the sport. On the one hand, individuals can of...more

Sanya Richards-Ross "First Step to a Double in Daegu"
by The Fast Life
posted June 23, 2011 at 2:18am

Reigning 400m World Champion Sanya Richards-Ross discusses her 200m race at Nationals and the historic potential of double World's Title....more

Calling all basketball players… For reality TV!
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted June 20, 2011 at 10:28pm

So this just came in to C and R's mail bag. Radical Media, a casting company wrote to us and said they are looking for basketball players for a reality TV show. They claim it is a "dream opportunity for highly skilled amateur and semi-pro basketball pl...more

My Oh, Christ moment of the day
by After Atalanta
posted June 18, 2011 at 10:01am

Or "Things that make me go Ugh."Members of the German women's U-20 team are appearing in Playboy to promote the Women's World Cup.Also they want to show people that female footballers are not all "butch."Five of the women ages 19-22 posed for the publicat...more

SGP recommended reading for June
by Sports Girls Play
posted June 8, 2011 at 2:18pm

Some of the most helpful, pertinent and positive articles I have found this week… Youth Sports Hydration Guidelines at MomsTeam.com has a nice chart for determining how much and when to give your athlete fluids before, during and after workouts. Bef...more

TV Schedule for the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup
by All White Kit
posted June 8, 2011 at 1:39am

The following is ESPN’s U.S. television schedule for the event. All times are listed in Eastern Time. And here is AWK’s updated women’s soccer schedule for the month of May. GROUP STAGE Sunday, June 26 – Germany vs. Canada – Berlin �...more

Teen Kailey Urbaniak reviews the Pretty Tough book series
by CPS8910
posted June 7, 2011 at 2:15am

One of the projects I set forth for my daughter this summer is to write book reviews for each book she reads.  She is 13 and I call her a “bookaholic”.  Kailey is a voracious reader, sometimes reading a book a day.  To begin, sh...more

Hair Metal Playlist for Running and Roping
by The Glowing Edge
posted May 26, 2011 at 6:51pm

Warning: rambling post filled with (clearly labeled!) tangents ahead. Feel free to skip to the bottom for the playlist. It was about 90 degrees outside but the sun was dropping when I headed out for a run. I’m not yet acclimatized to summer heat wor...more

Dancing with the footall star: Mirror ball for Hines Ward
by Draft Day Suit
posted May 26, 2011 at 12:26am

With all the hysteria in Pittsburgh today, you’d think Steelers receiver Hines Ward had just hoisted this trophy once again: Nope. The trophy behind the hoopla is this one. And Ward won it for dancing. That’s Ward and his dancing partner, Kym Jo...more

Brazilian Women's Soccer Guerreiras!
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted May 23, 2011 at 1:10pm

Did you know women's football was banned in Brazil by the military dictatorship until the early 80s? Neither did I. Seems a strange thing to ban until you think about the advantages playing sport brings to anyone, male or female. But that's all changing n...more

Scratch The Surface – New Female Skateboarding Film
by SkaterGirl
posted May 9, 2011 at 12:40pm

So work has started on a new film called Scratch The Surface – this was mainly due to the great response we had to As If, And What? This film will involve 12 top riders from around the world including – Mimi Knoop (USA), Evelien Bouilliart (Be...more

Sean Kingston’s ‘Ready or Not’ queued up as anthem for Women’s World Cup
by Pretty Tough
posted May 7, 2011 at 3:55pm

New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) Jamaican-American singer Sean Kingston’s ‘Ready or Not’ is the official song for the FIFA Women’s World Cup to be held in Germany June 26-July 17. The track is a follow-up to last year’s World Cup anthem “Waka Waka”...more

Inspecting Pac-12 Network's impact on women's basketball & Big East negotiations
by Swish Appeal
posted May 5, 2011 at 1:20pm

Back in March, Jeff Rabjohns of the Indianapolis Star wrote an article describing not only how the Big Ten Network is "having a cascading effect throughout the college landscape" for women's basketball exposure, but also how television executives are seei...more

WISI Article of the Week: "Pass, Run, Walk: Lingerie Football and SlutWalks"
by Women in Sport International
posted May 5, 2011 at 11:20am

This week's Article of the Week is "Pass, Run, Walk: Lingerie Football and SlutWalks" which was written by Melanie Persaud, Part-Time Senior Communications Officer with the YWCA. The article, which was published on the YWCA Toronto's Blog, provides a uniq...more

Storm prepares to announce 2011 television schedule
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted May 5, 2011 at 11:19am

The Storm will team with KONG-TV, again, broadcasting at least nine games on the network. Coupled with five combined games on ESPN2 and ABC, 14 of the defending champion Storm's 34 regular-season games will be aired -- a franchise high. "This year there'...more

More on monumental Pac-12 deal
by They're Playing Basketball
posted May 5, 2011 at 11:16am

ESPN's official release on yesterday's deal, and their plan to show Pac-12 sports "across multiple entities."Reactions to what is probably the biggest agreement for a college conference. ...more

Larry Scott talks TV deal and women’s hoops
by Left Coast Hoops
posted May 5, 2011 at 2:37am

Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott, in announcing the league’s new mega-TV deal with Fox and ESPN worth a reported $3 billion, talked about how the new contract will benefit women’s basketball. For starters, there will be a Pac-12 network. Scott indicat...more

Princess Kate - The Athlete Under the Tiara
by MarQFPR
posted April 29, 2011 at 11:30pm

Princess Kate Rowing for a Cause in 2007 (All photos courtesy The London Daily Mail) With all the "Royal Wedding" talk going on Friday, some people have been critical about the perception of royalty and where women stand in it. Princess Kate is lookin...more

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