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Traditional vs. new media – Will women’s sports ever get equal coverage?
by Soccer Science
posted June 17, 2010 at 11:42am

Every day, the WPS Director of Communications, Rob Penner (in the pic above with me), sends out the Daily Clips to the league office staff. Today’s clips included a story called, Continued apathy by sports media toward women’s sports a bigger probl...more

What do USA Swimming and the Catholic Church have In common?
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted June 16, 2010 at 4:14pm

Answer: A big disgusting sex scandal, that’s what.For several months USA Swimming has been embroiled in lawsuits and accusations related to their lax oversight of and response to numerous instances of male coach sexual misconduct with young female swimm...more

No Offense, It's Just Business
by amber2jewel
posted June 12, 2010 at 8:41pm

Marie Hardin recently posted a WTS blog in response to Eric Deggens' column regarding a study confirming that while participation in women's sports has increased with Title IX, media coverage itself is stagnant, if not decreasing (see "Why the Apathy...more

Off-Topic: A few things SportsCenter anchors better avoid when doing World Cup highlights
by All White Kit
posted June 12, 2010 at 2:08pm

While ESPN’s coverage of the 2010 World Cup has generally been commendable thus far (aside from the confusion courtesy of Martin Tyler and Efan Ekoku over what the offside rule and the existence of Alexi Lalas). But inevitably there will be some goofy...more

Women’s sports: Visibility matters
by Byline to Finish Line
posted June 11, 2010 at 11:09am

This winter, the worst thing about Canada defeating the U.S. in the women’s Olympic hockey final was that Angela Ruggiero did not win the gold. Ruggiero is an amazing athlete and has always struck me as genuine, authentic and outspoken. She’s the ty...more

The Chicago Tribune, sexist sporting imagery and the case for increased gender diversity in sports newsrooms
by Sports, Media & Society
posted June 10, 2010 at 1:55pm

The old “you play like a girl” insult made a comeback today, courtesy of the Chicago Tribune. As part of its regular poster series, the newspaper depicted the Chicago Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup Finals opponent Chris Pronger as wearing a figure skating ...more

Chicago Tribune goes blatantly sexist in prep for tonight's Stanley Cup Game 6
by Women Undefined
posted June 9, 2010 at 8:46pm

I am having trouble stringing together a good reaction to this (I'm a little out of it right now, just had a good work out) . The Chicago Tribune is a major American newspaper, the type of journalistic institution that is supposedly eons above blogs and o...more

Another example of sexism in sport
by One Sport Voice
posted June 9, 2010 at 5:07pm

This will simply be a repost from Christine Brennan’s blog about the sexist ad the Chicago Tribune ran featuring NHL Flyers player Chris “Chrissy” Pronger. It always amazes me that feminizing male professional athletes is seen as humorous, an appro...more

Blogs, Balls, Babes and Morality
by One Sport Voice
posted June 8, 2010 at 7:45pm

My Blogs With Balls Experience: A Summary If you follow this blog you might of known I went to Chicago last weekend to attend the Blog With Balls 3.0 (BWB) Conference, and was invited to be part of the “You’ve Gotta Fight For Your Right…to Blog?:...more

Why the apathy about women's sports coverage?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted June 8, 2010 at 4:46pm

In a column published this morning, longtime journalist Eric Deggens addresses the lack of attention paid to a new study that empirically verifies what women's sports fans have suspected: Despite Title IX and the soaring numbers of girls and women partici...more

Research on homophobia & heterosexism featured
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted June 8, 2010 at 4:45pm

Research Assistant Austin Stair Calhoun and Director Mary Jo Kane discuss cutting-edge research on gender, digital media, and homophobia and heterosexism in collegiate athletics being conducted at The Tucker Center, as part of the University of Minnesota ...more

Study on television coverage reveals that very little is revealed
by After Atalanta
posted June 7, 2010 at 3:50pm

This is old news (well a week; so ancient in blogosphere terms). But last week the Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California released a report written by USC professor Dr. Michael Messner (Messner blogged about the study at the Huf...more

Study finds that women athletes are absent from TV news
by Athletic Women Blog
posted June 4, 2010 at 6:43pm

You could have knocked me over with a feather when I learned that local television news hardly covers women's athletics. But of course I jest. This I already knew—sans 20-year study and all. I must confess, however, to being caught unawares by one co...more

Softball skills debate
by Softball Performance Blog
posted June 3, 2010 at 2:13pm

Guest post by Ken Krause, Life in the Fastpitch Lane blog There's No ONE Answer for How To Execute Skills Most of us come to resources such as the Discuss Fastpitch Forum because we're looking to improve our understanding of the skills and strategies...more

Self-conscious Fandom and supporting women’s soccer In The United States
by All White Kit
posted June 3, 2010 at 2:08pm

This weekend I came across an article regarding women’s soccer in this country and how its existence could possibly hinder the growth of the men’s game in this country. I’m not that great paraphrasing so here, in the author’s own w...more

Why too few Hispanic girls play sports — and what to do about it
by Fair Game News
posted June 3, 2010 at 12:26pm

By Minda Monteagudo Why do Latina youth participate in sports less than other girls? How does their Hispanic culture impact decisions to play (or not)? What can we do to change that? As part of a senior high school project, over the last few weeks I con...more

It's a man's racing world
by After Atalanta
posted June 1, 2010 at 9:50pm

I saw a few articles this past weekend about female auto racers. Note that I didn't really read them because I am not all that into auto racing. But the headlines were similar in that they noted the increased presence of women at Indy: there were four thi...more

WPS' Freedom honors the troops
by Women's Sports Blog
posted May 31, 2010 at 5:21pm

The Washington Freedom wore blue camouflage jerseys to celebrate Memorial Day in their match on Sunday. Dressing the players as 'soldiers' contributes to the idea that everything, but especially sports, can be analogized to war. This actually does a d...more

WNBA marketing to lesbians? Who would have thought?
by Swish Appeal
posted May 31, 2010 at 5:17pm

Many fans in the present WNBA era complain that the WNBA doesn't do enough to market to their lesbian fans. If you followed newspapers from a decade ago, however, that would clearly not have been the case. BusinessWeek reported in its 2001 article "Gro...more

Please stop talking...
by After Atalanta
posted May 29, 2010 at 2:14pm

...about Venus Williams's dress. I mean, really? This is a big deal?I am currently watching Venus for the second time in two days and I have to say I don't see what all the hoopla is about. The flesh colored underwear we already discussed when she wore th...more

When gay coaches and athletes come out
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted May 28, 2010 at 5:45pm

The New York Times published two articles in May, one on an openly gay male college lacrosse player and the other about an openly gay male college coach. The lacrosse player, Andrew McIntosh, and the softball coach, Kirk Walker, describe how they their op...more

Is Softball College Recruiting Getting Out of Hand?
by Softball Performance Blog
posted May 25, 2010 at 5:37pm

Guest post by Ken Krause, Life in the Fastpitch Lane blog Once again, I have the NFCA's Fastpitch Delivery newspaper to thank for this week's topic on softball college recruiting. I hope a new issue comes soon, as I'm now out of topics from the curren...more

Softball should be an Olympic sport
by Women's Sports Blog
posted May 25, 2010 at 5:05pm

I didn't use to have a horse in this race, indeed I even played devil's advocate on the issue, but now the world is being deprived of seeing Jen Yee play more softball and it's just wrong. More on this soon. ...more

Mark Cuban fined for opening his big mouth, again, But was he really tampering with LeBron?
by Draft Day Suit
posted May 25, 2010 at 1:39pm

Mark Cuban was recently fined $100,000 for comments he made about LeBron James. I couldn’t imagine what he could have he possibly said to have to pay $100,000. Well, I could, but I didn’t want to think him capable of that. Then I thought that Cuban s...more

The iPad Goes Anywhere – Except Yankee Stadium
by Draft Day Suit
posted May 24, 2010 at 12:27pm

Yankee Stadium has banned bringing iPads to baseball games. Apparently the Yankee Stadium Security people are the only people that have not yet realized that iPads are just really big iPhones. That being said, it would appear you can still sneak your ...more

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