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Why doesn’t the POTUS see the power in pick-up?
by Fair Game News
posted October 26, 2009 at 9:14pm
By Laura Pappano
Is it a problem that White House b-ball games with the president are male-only affairs? Or that, according to the New York Times story yesterday that since taking office President Obama has played 23 rounds of golf – and none (based on...more
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The president's sporty White House
by After Atalanta
posted October 26, 2009 at 5:46pm
President Obama got some flack last year for only doing a men's bracket during the NCAA tournament. (Ok mostly it was just me giving him a hard time.)This time he is getting grief for an all-male congressional basketball game. I heard about this but didn'...more
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...Except for the President
by Women's Sports Blog
posted October 26, 2009 at 4:38pm
So now the word is that not only does Obama not play hoops with women, he's also never golfed with a woman during his time as president despite having been out on the course many times since his election. Helen at WHB, you know I love you, but applying ...more
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The Head Cheerleader Paradox
by Women's Sports Blog
posted October 25, 2009 at 3:24pm
Sorry about the lack of posting recently. It has been a weird week, complete with a bizarre sleep schedule, which means I've had no time to keep up with sports. You could tell me that Margaret Court won the WTA championship and I'd believe you. So h...more
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ESPN's 'Body Issue' does its job
by Sports, Media & Society
posted October 16, 2009 at 6:43pm
According to a report by The Wrap about the Magazine Innovation Summit in New York this week, ESPN boosted subscriptions to its "Insider" (a companion to the magazine) by 400 within two hours of posting its "Body Issue" images online. Newsstand data wasn'...more
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Rant: Good Beats Great
by Swish Appeal
posted October 15, 2009 at 7:37pm
I've read yet another article from a magazine/publisher/journalist bemoaning the state of the modern media and the rise of the internet, blogging, and amateur journalism. This time, the article is from Jason Plontin's blog and is titled How to Save Medi...more
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Serena's Nude Mag Cover: Her Body, Her Choice
by Black Tennis Pro's
posted October 15, 2009 at 11:48am
I don't understand all of the negative hoopla surrounding this cover. I think the photos of all the athletes are very artistically done and represent 'the body' beautifully.The cover of Serena shows a very athletically built, yet feminine Black woman who...more
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Rush Limbaugh's NFL business
by Sport Management Education
posted October 15, 2009 at 11:35am
I am a firm believer in the idea that it is okay to have differing opinions. I try very hard to teach this to my students. I also tell them that they need to be able to express their opinions in a thoughtful and articulate manner. As individuals, ...more
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The Body Issue
by Athletic Women Blog
posted October 13, 2009 at 1:52pm
Sufficiently hyped, ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue" hit newsstands Friday. The issue features several male and female athletes in various "nude" poses (PG-13 stuff, perhaps). Predictably, this has sparked some little controversy, much of it unwarranted, ...more
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ESPN The Body Issue: What I have seen and heard
by After Atalanta
posted October 12, 2009 at 12:56pm
OK so I have tried several times this past weekend to buy the Body Issue so I can take a (good, more on that in a sec) look at it myself. But I cannot find it. Has my progressive town refused to carry it? More likely that I just haven't been to a big enou...more
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Pink stuff
by After Atalanta
posted October 7, 2009 at 11:12am
I got through one day of October--one day!--before feeling compelled to blog about all this pink stuff. (But haven't actually had time until today which means I had to stew through all this NFL goes pink and Tom Brady's pink cleats, etc, etc.)I have done ...more
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Rio Was The Right Choice- Updated
by Women's Sports Blog
posted October 2, 2009 at 4:36pm
Still sick, but can't resist commenting. The American Exceptionalist whining has started. Jessica Mendoza, I'm looking at you, because you should know better. Why did the lovely city but concomitantly corrupt sinkhole that is Chicago deserve to host...more
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Do I trust Jessica Mendoza?
by After Atalanta
posted September 29, 2009 at 11:38am
I just read about the forthcoming issue of ESPN, The Magazine which is being called the "Body Issue." (Isn't every issue of a magazine that covers sports exclusively always a body issue given that they are talking about and photographing bodies?)The USA ...more
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Brains & Beauty: The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
by One Sport Voice
posted September 28, 2009 at 6:53pm
Blog reader S.C. sent me a story about the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders (DCC’s). Evidently the DCC’s have to take and pass a 100-question test in order be on the squad. Questions include “everything from the governor of Texas to a country that borde...more
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The athletic sabbatical
by After Atalanta
posted September 28, 2009 at 12:22pm
So of course the tennis world is all atwitter with Justine Henin's not-so-surprising announcement last week that she would be returning to tennis.And so begins an even more fervent discussion of the player sabbatical or the non-retirement or the mental br...more
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Glamour Magazine Part II
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted September 24, 2009 at 3:23pm
We have a letter! From a fan! We have a fan. We have a fan not related to us genetically or geographically.
He wrote about our commentary on the Jayne in Glamour blog. And he mostly agrees with us. Another reason to post what he said!
Let me share wi...more
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The mommy discourse: Motherhood and sexification
by After Atalanta
posted September 24, 2009 at 3:15pm
Misty May is coming back to professional volleyball this month. May is the latest athlete mommy to return to competition. And thus the mommy discourse continues. Laura Pappano comments on May's return and discusses the other mommy returns. It seems like s...more
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What Mayweather’s fight really means
by The Glowing Edge
posted September 21, 2009 at 4:28pm
Boxing is stuck in the 20th century.
And I mean firmly stuck. You only have to see the meteoric rise of MMA to realize that the sweet science can’t, won’t, and actively refuses to keep up. And boxing has such history, art, legends, grit, beauty, s...more
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Weekend Gender Observations
by One Sport Voice
posted September 21, 2009 at 1:58pm
This past weekend I traveled back to Notre Dame (ND) for the Michigan State football game. I go back every other year to catch a game and see former colleagues. While I was there I observed a few things I had to share related to how females are marginal...more
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DC shakeup. The ugly paradox.
by Athletic Women Blog
posted September 18, 2009 at 6:51pm
DC shakeup. No, not that DC. I refer here to DC Comics, which now has a new name—DC Entertainment—and a new president. This overhaul by parent company Warner Bros. bodes well for a forthcoming Wonder Woman film. Another sign that things are looking up...more
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The football post
by After Atalanta
posted September 18, 2009 at 4:20pm
Title makes it sound like this is my only one of the season.May be. Remains to be seenAnyway mostly it's a generic title meant to encompass two articles I came across that I don't want to talk about in two different posts.The Wall Street Journal has an ar...more
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Women's Sports News: Some follow-ups
by After Atalanta
posted September 17, 2009 at 2:59pm
In the wake of the leak to the press about some findings from the medical examination of Caster Semenya, Dave Zirin and Sherry Wolf (I am going to hear her talk tonight!) have another Nation column about the situation. They take to task the IAAF of course...more
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The competing mommy discourses
by After Atalanta
posted September 16, 2009 at 11:48am
Throughout much of the US Open I was thinking, "glad I don't have kids!" But the other day I started thinking "I gotta myself knocked up!"Why the radical switch? Well the former sentiment emerged after hearing, ad nauseum, about coming back from pregnancy...more
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