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We interrupt this hockey season to bring you the Olympics
by Women's Sports Blog
posted February 15, 2010 at 12:07pm

Maybe it's simply growing older, when magic necessarily fades. Or maybe it's feeling the responsibility of 'covering' the last two Games. But my first two distinct thoughts when I realized mid-week that the Olympics started on Friday were 'man, they'r...more

Sarcasm over, SI: time for real pics of female athletes
by Fair Game News
posted February 13, 2010 at 6:06pm

By Laura Pappano OK, I’ve learned something valuable: My effort at a tongue-in-cheek fan letter to SI for their “un-coverage” of female athletes was not clearly tongue-in-cheek to many readers on this site or the Women Talk Sports network site. Fi...more

NOT the same: Vonn v. Kitt Sports Illustrated covers
by One Sport Voice
posted February 13, 2010 at 12:29pm

Sports Illustrated Covers of Olympic Skiers In rebuttal to the “Vonn Watch” Sports Illlustrated cover blog post I made, many people commented and pointed out that A.J. Kitt was similarly posed in 1992 and no one called it sexual. I don&rsqu...;more

Why can't women be athletic and sexy, too?
by GoGameFace: Watch Sports Like a Girl
posted February 12, 2010 at 12:19pm

I'm sorry. But I have to do it. I have to speak out on behalf of those of us who aren't really bothered by the recent Sports Illustrated sagas. First, there was that post that crashed the Women Talk Sports site. You rem...more

Chantelle Says: Chill Out on John Mayer's comments
by Chantelle Says
posted February 11, 2010 at 9:19pm

Ok so John Mayer’s recent interview with Playboy sent the internet into an uproar yesterday. If you haven’t read it, I suggest you do so. He commented on basically everything, including his love for masturbation, explicit descriptions of sex with fa...more

"Politics is culture is politics": Mayer, Social Media, and the Narcissistic Cult of Self
by Swish Appeal
posted February 11, 2010 at 7:12pm

I don't actually care about John Mayer one way or the other -- anybody trying this hard to get attention should simply be ignored because any publicity is good publicity, right? Of course, I found his controversial comments abhorrent, but sadly not a ...more

Good thing she knows how to pose in a bathing suit
by After Atalanta
posted February 11, 2010 at 7:07pm

Because if Lindsey Vonn had a plan to gain Michael Phelps-like fame by winning many medals and becoming a highly decorated American skier, she might have to fall back on her modeling career.I refrained from commenting on the little upsurge in controversy ...more

Plaschke gets the last word
by Women's Sports Blog
posted February 11, 2010 at 6:53pm

What he said about this Vonn nonsense. ...more

Thank you, Sports Illustrated!!!!!!!!!!! (From a women’s sports fan)
by Fair Game News
posted February 11, 2010 at 12:31pm

By Laura Pappano As a Sports Illustrated subscriber, I just want to offer a big “Thank You” for all the recent coverage of Lindsey Vonn – or should I say “un”-coverage? If crazy feminists got all in a wad about last week’s cover photo of V...more

Short Video on Sports Illustrated photographs of female athletes
by One Sport Voice
posted February 10, 2010 at 7:06pm

One of our local Minneapolis NBC affiliate KARE11 reporters, Jana Shortal, did a great piece on why the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and Lindsey Vonn SI cover might be problematic. It is short and to the point. To watch the video, click here. ...more

Lindsey Vonn: uncovering a controversy
by Athletic Women Blog
posted February 10, 2010 at 3:56pm

Yesterday, I predicted the Lindsey Vonn-SI cover controversy, despite a brief lull, wasn't over yet. And you're about to see why. Say what you will about Vonn, but she is making the most of her "Olympic moment"—as well she should. This is a clever woman...more

Softball Cheers - Positive or Distracting?
by Softball Performance Blog
posted February 10, 2010 at 11:29am

I know there are people out there that think Softball Cheers are more of a distraction in a game than a help. Most of the time it's male coaches and parents that I hear this from. These people feel that there are other more important things players co...more

Vonn Watch: Part II
by One Sport Voice
posted February 10, 2010 at 11:24am

  Ok, so if you didn’t agree with my critique (and many didn’t!) of the February 8, 2010 Sports Illustrated cover of Olympian Lindsey Vonn that can be interpreted as sexualized, the photographs of Vonn and other female athletes in the 20...more

Never underestimate the power of a good sportswriter
by Draft Day Suit
posted February 9, 2010 at 9:10pm

I find it curious that mainstream media can find time to complain that bloggers are ruining news when some newspapers can’t even accurately report the score of the SUPER BOWL. The Virginian-Pilot newspaper actually printed “Colts 31, Saints 17″. W...more

More on Lindsey Vonn: "Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility"
by Athletic Women Blog
posted February 9, 2010 at 12:27pm

An aphorism of James Thurber's (a takeoff on Wordsworth's "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity") fittingly introduces this post. Now that the brouhaha over the Lind...more

Reaction to Vonn Sports Illustrated cover uncovers more than expected
by One Sport Voice
posted February 8, 2010 at 4:22pm

Now that the reactions to my blog post about the Lindsey Vonn Sports Illustrated cover has waned, I wanted to share some thoughts. What I have found interesting about the Vonn post, is not that so many disagreed with my critique of the cover, but that ...more

Super Bowl 44: Sexism and Misogyny in Society 101
by Women Undefined
posted February 8, 2010 at 3:31pm

Hey Women's Studies majors, no need to take those extra sociology courses - If you watched last night's Super Bowl and the accompanying advertisements, you're an expert in sexism and misogyny! You can now say with confidence and pride: " I aced Sexism an...more

Focus on the Football, Tim Tebow
by Draft Day Suit
posted February 7, 2010 at 2:19pm

I am so sick of Tim Tebow. I am sick of hearing about him, about how he and his mother, Pam Tebow, are slated to tell the Super Bowl audience on Sunday that they’re glad he is alive because she chose not to heed warnings of medical professionals du...more

Thoughts on Jenny Barringer's Coaching Change
by anngaff
posted February 7, 2010 at 2:12am

The news broke on Thursday that Jenny Barringer will no longer be working with her college coach Mark Wetmore of Colorado. This comes as a shock to many because Wetmore's careful handling of Barringer throughout her career is one for the books, from her f...more

When Sports Stars Become Authority Figures, Women Lose
by Sports, Media & Society
posted February 6, 2010 at 9:59pm

By now anyone interested in sports knows about the upcoming Tim Tebow ad set to appear during the Superbowl. Feminists and other activist groups have critiqued the ad for providing unsafe and misleading information to women about their reproductive health...more

Lindsey Vonn’s Sports Illustrated cover causes a stir
by Draft Day Suit
posted February 6, 2010 at 9:30pm

Last week skier Lindsey Vonn was in the news because some jerk in the media suggested that Vonn would have an advantage in the downhill events because she was carrying extra weight, so I was pleased when I saw this week’s cover of Sports Illustrated bec...more

Lindsey Vonn SI Cover - Get Over it!
by Women Skiing and Sports
posted February 6, 2010 at 2:37pm

The people dissing the Sports Illustrated cover shot of Lindsey Vonn apparently have never seen a ski race. Vonn is crouched in a classic downhill tuck, a position DH racers maintain throughout their entire run. It's what she does, and does better than an...more

Commentary on SI's Vonn cover: Why the outrage?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted February 6, 2010 at 2:34pm

A blog post earlier today by Nicole LaVoi, a researcher at the Tucker Center for Girls and Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota, has drawn a great deal of attention from national and international media. It has also drawn a great deal of rage aim...more

The SI cover debate
by Byline to Finish Line
posted February 5, 2010 at 11:22am

What does a picture say? If it’s the Sports Illustrated cover of it’s Winter Olympics preview featuring Lindsey Vonn, quite a bit. A brief post critiquing the choice of photo for the cover by Nicole M. LaVoi, a sports psychology and sports sociolog...more

So over Tim Tebow
by After Atalanta
posted February 4, 2010 at 2:05pm

Not that I was ever into him but this Super Bowl Focus on the Family ad conversation is getting old. Well not so much old as typical. Same old arguments. Same old sides. And in the end the "right" which is all about the self-martyrdom will have the ear of...more

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