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Unfair Competitive Advantage: What’s It All About, Aimee?
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted November 13, 2009 at 12:33pm

I just read this article written by Aimee Mullins, an accomplished track athlete and former President of the Women’s Sports Foundation, who runs with two woven carbon fiber Cheetah Legs. Her article is a dissection and refutation of “unfair competiti...more

Clashing commercials; or, What does "toned" actually mean?
by Athletic Women Blog
posted November 13, 2009 at 12:24pm

Reebok has a new line of shoes, and of course new commercials to promote them. Called Easytone, the shoes condition a woman's butt and legs, so we are told anyway. No gym. No workouts. Just wear shoes. Snake oil? Perhaps. But that's not what I'm concerned...more

Elizabeth Lambert, Part 2
by The Glowing Edge
posted November 13, 2009 at 12:20pm

The Elizabeth Lambert story has captured tremendous mainstream attention and generated some good conversation (and some garbage, of course). After posting my own response, reading widely and talking intently about the video, I believe that there are t...more

Are media guide portrayals of collegiate female athletes regressing?
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted November 12, 2009 at 9:35pm

Tucker Center scholars, Director Mary Jo Kane and Affiliated Scholar Jo Ann Buysse, have published longitudinal research on how collegiate media guide covers have historically marginalized female athletes–but that recently change has occured. In 2003-...more

We are FEMALE athletes
by Chantelle
posted November 12, 2009 at 5:49pm

First of all, let me say that I have tremendous respect for Jayda Evans and her journalistic work in covering women's basketball. I've known her since my first year in the WNBA (maybe longer), and she's always wearing a bright smile and pleasant dem...more

Soccer's bad girls
by Athletic Women Blog
posted November 12, 2009 at 11:49am

Badly behaved or just bad, or both? You decide. First it was the lately infamous Elizabeth Lambert: Then a brawl in Rhode Island: To cheer or to boo? A question that invites a farrago of answers . But something Mike Lopresti says hits what I think ...more

Tennis players with jitters?
by After Atalanta
posted November 11, 2009 at 6:26pm

So I am forgoing a third post in three days about the Lambert-goes-viral situation to recount a recent moment of irk I had when reading Tennis magazine. It's been a while since I complained about Tennis so I was due.Said complaint comes from the US Open r...more

Reebok to women: Get the body that men want
by Sports, Media & Society
posted November 10, 2009 at 7:26pm

In a new series of provocative ads, Reebok tells women in no uncertain terms what other apparel companies often only suggest under the guise of empowerment: that exercising in the company’s new shoe will make them more sexually desirable to men. One fea...more

Married to the mob
by Women's Sports Blog
posted November 10, 2009 at 11:33am

There's a stretch of 280 South just outside San Francisco that looks like Israel. It's been on my mind in the week since Shabbatai Kalmanovic's murder. Her parents say Lauren Jackson cried when she heard the news. The man was not well known to me, o...more

The LFL Sells Sex, Not Sport
by One Sport Voice
posted November 9, 2009 at 3:34pm

During the recent sport sociology conference (NASSS) I heard inspired critiques of sport and had many great conversations about sport media and female athletes. Ironically, I returned home today to this tweet by the Lingerie Football League. RT @MyLF...more

Social Media as Contested Terrain
by One Sport Voice
posted November 6, 2009 at 7:25pm

Currently I’m at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) in Ottawa. I’ve heard A LOT of great research and ideas that much head is spinning a bit. I was in a session today that crystallized some thoughts about social media an...more

Holding McCourt
by amber2jewel
posted November 5, 2009 at 7:13pm

Welcome to the first edition of LOL or BMEO (ball my eyes out) Many stories, especially those worth writing about, elicit a visceral reaction. It either makes me laugh (as in all the way to the bank or because it’s actually hilarious) or cry ...more

Net Neutrality and Online Sports Media
by Sports, Media & Society
posted November 5, 2009 at 7:03pm

With the FCC entering a public comment period on the subject of Network Neutrality, I’ve been thinking, “What would a repeal of Network Neutrality mean for online sports media?” If you’re not familiar with the concept of Net Neutrality take just t...more

The Eternal Comparison: Women's Basketball in Spain
by Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog
posted November 4, 2009 at 12:02pm

Journalist Alejandro Santana, who follows Perfumerias in Spain, writes about media coverage in Spain. Perfumerias is lucky as its home city - Salamanca - has three local newspapers, three radio shows and one television station. However:But Salamanca’s...more

Graf hates tennis too
by Women's Sports Blog
posted November 3, 2009 at 6:06pm

The crystal meth revelations in Andre Agassi's book excerpt didn't bother me, although his lying about them did. The most upsetting part was the message that's getting lost in all the drug furor. Not only does he say several times that he hates tennis...more

From a Supporter to a Skeptic on the Impact of Social Media on Women’s Sports: Musings of an Emerging Scholar
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted November 3, 2009 at 5:43pm

Austin Stair Calhoun, M.S.Ed. Second-Year PhD Student (Sport Sociology), University of Minnesota Tucker Center Research Assistant @austinstair – www.austinstair.com Just a few moments ago, my co-advisor and Tucker Center Associate Director, Dr. Ni...more

Why Social Media is Not Good but GREAT for Women's Sports
by anngaff
posted November 3, 2009 at 4:16pm

There has been a lot of buzz lately, especially in the Women Talk Sports community, about social media and whether or not it is good for women's sports. The buzz got louder after the Tucker Center held their annual Distinguished Lecture Series and broadca...more

Advancing women's sports: largely a bootstrap process
by Athletic Women Blog
posted November 2, 2009 at 3:41pm

Tasked with garnering more fans, advocates for women's sports might understandably think an online community of feminists a good place to reach out. And in fact a WTS blogger tried this recently—with, at best, mixed results. I will here give the essence...more

Media coverage of Serena Williams' outburst emphasizes gender norms
by Sports, Media & Society
posted November 2, 2009 at 12:48pm

Serena Williams, in her outburst at the U.S. Open, stepped outside the box of what is considered acceptable behavior for female athletes, according to the most recent report from the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism. We analyzed article from both ...more

Is Twitter a woman thing?
by Women's Sports Blog
posted November 2, 2009 at 12:02pm

There's been a lot of posting recently among the Women Talk Sports crowd about the power of social networking for women's sports. My contribution is an observation I made early on in my Twitter tenure that has continued to cross my mind from time to tim...more

Are you a feminist?
by The Glowing Edge
posted November 2, 2009 at 11:55am

I was recently interviewed by Marie Hardin from Penn State’s Center for Sports Journalism about how women who blog about sports are empowered through blogging and use their sites for feminist activism. It was a pleasure to speak with her about my blo...more

Workplace games probably do matter
by Swish Appeal
posted November 1, 2009 at 5:05pm

Independent of whether it’s a worthwhile use of time for political pundits to spend their time closely tracking who has next during President Barack Obama’s pick-up games, it seems that people are starting to lose perspective on the significance of th...more

Things that make you go hmmmm…More on social media & women’s sport
by One Sport Voice
posted October 30, 2009 at 3:26pm

Following the Tucker Center lecture and new blog about the impact of social media and women’s sport, it didn’t take too long for me to be in the middle of a real life example. Life works in ironic ways sometimes, doesn’t it? This example is mean...more

Wait, it’s not the POTUS’s job to play PC b-ball — women have to get in the game!
by Fair Game News
posted October 29, 2009 at 1:15pm

By Lauren Taylor Um, earth to FairGameNews.com readers! Did no one read Laura’s post on Monday? (Actually our tracker shows they did). Then, why no comments to tell her she was talking crazy? C’mom — you’ve got to keep us on our toes! I read it ...more

Burden, buzz or both?: Reflections on social media & women’s sports
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted October 28, 2009 at 11:58am

Heather D. Maxwell, PhD Consumer Insight Networks, General Mills Inc. Former Tucker Center Research Assistant @DigitalMaxwell The recent Tucker Center Distinguished Lecture concerning social media is timely. The lecture panelists started the conve...more

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