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Farewell to a courageous competitor
by Hoop Thoughts
posted August 27, 2009 at 1:20pm
We have heavy hearts to up learning that former LSU soccer player Robyn DesOrmeaux, who earned four letters as the team’s starting goalkeeper from 2001-04, lost her battle with cancer Thursday morning as she passed away at the age of 27. DesOrmeaux enjo...more
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Former Hawaii AD sues
by Title IX Blog
posted August 26, 2009 at 10:41am
University of Hawaii-Hilo administrators have been named in a recent lawsuit filed by former athletic director Kathleen McNally who is alleging both racial and gender discrimination. We have not seen an intersectional complaint in a while, though how much...more
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Coach's Corner: The Lady Tiger Way #3
by Hoop Thoughts
posted August 25, 2009 at 3:17pm
We are constantly looking for ways to make our team......think...learn...communicateOne of the ways we do that is through a quick email to provoke a response. They don't have a deadline. Just the next time they get to their email with a few extra minutes...more
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Coach's Corner: The Lady Tiger Way (#1)
by Hoop Thoughts
posted August 23, 2009 at 5:17pm
OFFICE (8-23-2009) - Today officially starts the 2009-2010 season for the LSU Lady Tigers Basketball Team. At 2:00 PM today we will have our first official team meeting. And then we're off...What we want to do with our blog this year is give everyone insi...more
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Coaches: Understand why they play
by Fair Game News
posted August 20, 2009 at 12:27pm
By Lauren Taylor
When I take a moment to think critically about sports — and youth sports in particular – it seems bizarre to consider how passionate we all are. In concrete terms, after all, the grass field has no meaning without us on it. The rul...more
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Dillard adding sports
by Title IX Blog
posted August 18, 2009 at 2:25pm
Part of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference, Dillard University in Louisiana is adding three sports in the coming academic year. No word on why, but the athletic director announced earlier this month that softball and men's and women's track and field and ...more
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Attention Athletes
by Pretty Tough
posted August 18, 2009 at 11:45am
Pretty Tough is searching for you.
If you play a sport, any sport, we want to interview you.
Pretty Tough is excited to announce a new feature called Saturday Spotlight beginning this September. Each Saturday, Pretty Tough will feature a middle school, ...more
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What counts as compliance
by After Atalanta
posted August 17, 2009 at 12:14pm
Last month Florida Gulf Coast University released the findings from its external investigation of its athletic department. The short version of the FGCU saga is this: The very few female coaches in the department got together and complained about the stat...more
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More details on the status of sand volleyball
by Title IX Blog
posted August 10, 2009 at 12:51pm
So not too long ago we got wind that sand volleyball was not a shoo-in for emerging sport status; that there were some concerns. But we didn't get a lot of information about the situation. Then I read a piece by Graham Watson at ESPN.com where it seemed t...more
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Irvine forced to cut sports
by Title IX Blog
posted July 30, 2009 at 3:01pm
The University of California Irvine is looking to cut $1 million from its budget by doing some reshuffling and, unfortunately, by cutting sports. Five programs will be discontinued next year: men's and women's swimming/diving, sailing, and women's and men...more
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A Coach Who Gets it Right
by One Sport Voice
posted July 27, 2009 at 6:23pm
In the media we more often hear horror stories than positive stories regarding coaches. Fortunately many coaches do get it right and positively affect the lives of countless others.
A wonderful example of just such a coach is Steve “Wilk” Wilkinso...more
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Coach's Corner: Increasing Your Three Types of Energy
by Hoop Thoughts
posted July 21, 2009 at 1:41am
I love my Brian Tracy daily newsletter! From a couple of days ago, he talks about increasing your three types of energy:Most successful people can be characterized as having very high levels of energy. Since energy is the fuel with which everything is ach...more
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Student-athletes taking responsibility
by Sport Management Education
posted July 14, 2009 at 2:23pm
When college student-athletes make mistakes, the common response is “they are just kids” or “they are only 18/19/20 years old and doing what any 18/19/20 year old would do.” I think to a certain extent that is true. But we have to remember t...more
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Sand volleyball recalled
by Title IX Blog
posted July 14, 2009 at 11:41am
Somehow we missed the news that sand volleyball, the newly named NCAA emerging sport, has been called back to the drawing board.It seems San Diego State University had been planning to add sand volleyball along with women's lacrosse. SDSU must meet the ge...more
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Back to the Farm
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted July 8, 2009 at 5:50pm
Hey, we have some basketball news that actually pertains to the current Stanford women’s basketball team. The USA Women's Basketball team is playing in the World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia, and two of our girls are there (The third, Jayne Appe...more
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Bad band!
by After Atalanta
posted July 7, 2009 at 3:17pm
So this one time, in band camp...we learned naughty things to say to other teams during basketball games.And now Texas Christian University is in trouble. For the bad band's actions during the first round of the 2009 women's national tournament, the NCAA ...more
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Choosing a Sport Management Program
by Sport Management Education
posted July 7, 2009 at 11:29am
This week’s post is a recycled entry from January. Choosing a college is a very stressful time and with allof the pressure and misinformation that is put on students it does not make the process any easier.
This is my first post on blogspot.com (...more
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UAA Investigation Reveals Locker Room Disparity
by Title IX Blog
posted July 5, 2009 at 2:39pm
The University of Alaska-Anchorage has announced plans to renovate athletic facilities to create two additional locker rooms that would provide more space to female athletes. An internal investigation into concerns the athletic department's gender equit...more
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Cheerleading to ease Title IX controversy?
by Title IX Blog
posted July 2, 2009 at 2:39pm
That's the thought of a writer in New York who believes that the growth of competitive cheerleading and its acceptance as a sport by some schools could help ease all the Title IX controversy over "quotas."Would that it were so (or that we would want it to...more
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Women's game: Not 'as good' as it was?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted July 1, 2009 at 11:51am
A story in the South Bend Tribune today reports that ND women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw, speaking at the annual NACDA meeting, lamented the state of women's college basketball -- ethically speaking -- today. "It's not quite as good as it used to be...more
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