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Why police the border between men's and women's sports? (repost w/ comments about Caster Semenya)
by From A Left Wing
posted August 21, 2009 at 2:18pm

The topic of gender testing in sports has become a headline again. South African sprinter Caster Semenya became a news story when she went to Berlin and claimed the world championship in the 800, crossing the line at 1:55.45, two seconds faster than her...more

Miss Semenya, sexuality in sports
by MsAkiba
posted August 21, 2009 at 12:03am

Ok...she has to be a man? is this just because of her looks...cause women have run faster....more

Part II: Clarifying the Myth About Exercise
by One Sport Voice
posted August 19, 2009 at 2:39pm

If you didn’t read the TIME magazine cover article which stated that exercise is basically a waste of time and doesn’t help people lose weight, my blog critique of the article, or the very insightful comments of blog readers (particularly Jenny Evan...more

The Answer is Yes, Jon
by Women's Sports Blog
posted August 17, 2009 at 3:35pm

Jon Wertheim wonders curious: does jankovic's dress appear, um, retina-burningly yellow, on tv as it does in person? she's up 4-3 btw Considering I was about to title a post 'Jelena's A-goin' To the County Fair,' I'd say the dress looked exactly the sam...more

Beat A Dog, Go To Jail For Years. Beat A Woman, Be Acquitted.
by Women's Sports Blog
posted August 16, 2009 at 1:04pm

Nobody in charge of such things seemed to see the irony of running these two sets of headlines back to back. Welcome to the wonderful world of football. ...more

I hate the Yankees
by Draft Day Suit
posted August 15, 2009 at 6:14pm

By Meesh I freakin’ hate the New York Yankees. Always have, always will. For what it’s worth, I come by it honestly. Some families have a strong allegiance to a team for one reason or other…but my family loathes the Yankees together. My da...more

The Price of Misinformation in the Media
by Balanced Health and Nutrition
posted August 14, 2009 at 3:50pm

Misinformation in the media can be dangerous. It breeds confusion, frustration, and even fear. Just last week I posted some tips for spotting nutrition misinformation on the internet. Little did I know there would be two national media outlets in pri...more

JMac invokes stupidity clause
by Women's Sports Blog
posted August 14, 2009 at 1:16pm

McCarville probably lost herself some fans during her twitterview yesterday when she claimed that her favorite summer movie was Transformers 2 and that she hated Order of the Phoenix. That's the Transformers that the well-known bastion of liberalism the...more

Annotating the All-Stars
by Women's Sports Blog
posted August 11, 2009 at 2:05pm

It's rare when the coaches do a worse job of selecting deserving candidates than the fans, but it's a tight competition in this case. This is, after all, the WPS All-Star game and not the US National Team versus Umea. The starters will also be skewed ...more

Even in Canada, eh?
by After Atalanta
posted August 10, 2009 at 1:03pm

I sometimes am accused of "ruining" my students by making them see things (i.e. discrimination) on television and in the media that they can no longer ignore. It seems now that I am doing something similar for some readers. (Haha--my feminist agenda is we...more

Clarifying “The Myth About Exercise”
by One Sport Voice
posted August 9, 2009 at 9:18pm

Every Saturday I look forward to the TIME magazine in my mail. I know I can read it all online, but there is something satisfying about print media. As someone trained in sport science (aka, Kinesiology) this week’s cover story by John Cloud “The ...more

Sky Blue Brass Wins Battle Of The D-hounds
by Women's Sports Blog
posted August 9, 2009 at 7:23pm

I don't know whether Kelly Lindsey will prove herself to be a successful coach or not, and she clearly had some communication issues with her bosses, but no one wants to get involved with management that will make statements like those in this article. ...more

Multiple Perspectives About “The Injury Epidemic” Facing Female Athletes
by One Sport Voice
posted August 5, 2009 at 2:16pm

Given the continuing discussion about injuries of female athletes, particularly ACL tears, I decided to revisit a blog piece I wrote before One Sport Voice was born. In 2008, a controversial book—Michael Sokolove’s Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Da...more

A Curious Catwalk for a Cure
by One Sport Voice
posted August 3, 2009 at 2:59pm

A charity promotion from the Minnesota Lynx (found by ASC) is a perfect example of how gender is constantly (re)constructed in women’s sport. There is so much going on is this ad, it makes your head spin! The juxtaposition of femininity and sport, and...more

Using sex to sell sport Part ??
by After Atalanta
posted August 1, 2009 at 1:15pm

Oh screw it. I can't keep track anymore of how many posts I have done about using sex appeal to sell women's sports. I had vowed to take a break from this stuff post-Wimbledon. But it keeps coming up.This time it's women's golf. Not sure why focus has swi...more

Mystics Ban Kiss Cam
by Draft Day Suit
posted July 31, 2009 at 9:41pm

I recently went to my first WNBA game, the Washington Mystics at home against the LA Sparks. I kissed no one, and can’t say that anyone else around me did either, although I wasn’t paying that kind of attention because hey, I was there to watch a bask...more

Wednesday evening aggravations
by After Atalanta
posted July 30, 2009 at 2:55pm

So I was prepping for dinner, washing my first batch of local green beans when I heard myself say aloud "don't do it, Alex. Don't make me blog about you--again." But here I am blogging once again about Alex Trebek's general chauvinism and how it seems to ...more

Women's pro sports 10 years after the World Cup: Is the sky really falling?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted July 28, 2009 at 2:55pm

I read with interest a series of stories published on ESPN.com late last week about the state of women's professional sports in the U.S. The thesis driving the package: Women's spectators sports are teetering on the brink of an uncertain and perhaps calam...more

FINA Says Swimsuit Ban Will Prevent Fatties From Winning, Or Something
by Women's Sports Blog
posted July 28, 2009 at 11:27am

I would be much less skeptical of FINA's decision to ban the high-tech suits if the major stated reasons weren't A. the old swimmers are pissed off that their records are being broken B. this will make the out-of-shape fatties even lazier Convincing ...more

Stilettos & Heels: “Helping” Female Athletes Transition to the Real World
by One Sport Voice
posted July 27, 2009 at 6:31pm

Today the NCAA Double-A-Zone blog posted information on two programs that are helping prepare female student-athletes for the real world. Kansas’ “Hoop 2 Heels” and Oklahoma’s “Sooner Stilettos” aim to help female athletes transition from a...more

The uncertain, vulnerable, scandal-prone land of [women's] sports??
by One Sport Voice
posted July 24, 2009 at 10:46pm

To cap off a week of weird sport media, I’ll end the week with this piece on ESPN.com that discusses the “state of uncertainty for women’s sports.” The author documents the “state” of women’s sport, which in turn will influence the opinion ...more

Andrews episode: Setback for women in sports media? Not really
by Sports, Media & Society
posted July 24, 2009 at 10:23pm

I received an email from a college student working as a sports writer for the Cape Cod Times this summer directing me to her blog post about the Erin Andrews incident. It was interesting to read the take of a young woman -- new to the profession -- about ...more

A strange day in the world of sport media
by One Sport Voice
posted July 23, 2009 at 12:10am

You know how people claim “bad things happen in threes” well after the last 24 hours of things I’ve seen and read in the sport media, I believe it! 1. “The Erin Andrews Peep Show” which if you haven’t heard about by now, then you’re not r...more

Why I hate Bicyclists
by Chic Runner
posted July 22, 2009 at 6:39pm

Perhaps that title is a little harsh, BUT, hear me out. This is my opinion and my blog so therefore I am allowed to say whatever I want and I definitely have much to say about ‘bicyclists’. Now, personally, I’m not one to hop on a bike and get my da...more

The Social Construction of Fatness and Femininity
by One Sport Voice
posted July 21, 2009 at 4:46pm

Two things happened in last 24hrs which inspired this blog. First, last night I was watching a PBS show (yes..nerdery abounds!) called Make ‘Em Laugh which featured Joan Rivers claiming (this isn’t verbatim but close), “We should all stop pretendi...more

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