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Do we have the stomach for football?
by Fair Game News
posted January 12, 2013 at 7:52pm

By Laura Pappano News that NFL veteran Junior Seau, who committed suicide last year, suffered from degenerative brain disease was hardly a revelation. We paused, saddened, on Thursday when the National Institutes of Health announced that Seau’s br...more

Wearing What Fits (featuring @URSportswear)
by Byline to Finish Line
posted December 19, 2012 at 8:50pm

A few weeks ago, I was chatting with Jacalyn, the CEO and overall amazing woman who runs UR Sportswear, about a bunch of different topic including (no surprise) women’s sportswear. There were discussions about if a medium looks too small and why som...more

Serena Williams impersonation triggers stereotypical ideals about black women's bodies
by Sports, Media & Society
posted December 16, 2012 at 5:20pm

Caroline Wozniacki, former No. 1 tennis player in the world,  decided to make fun of her friend, Serena Williams. Wozniacki stuffed towels into her top and skirt during an exhibition match in Sao Paulo, Brazil in attempt to illustrate Williams' bod...more

Steroids, moralizing and the Baseball Hall of Fame
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted December 13, 2012 at 2:23pm

Tweet My objections to the War on Steroids are not subtle, nor are they conflicted, as I have written here and here and here. The caveat has always been that I’m more concerned about the public unaccountability of the taxpayer-funded USADA than at...more

The Iowa disconnect?
by After Atalanta
posted December 13, 2012 at 7:37am

One of my favorite college administrators had a lot of interesting axioms, which those of us who worked with her believed were largely of her own creation. But now I realize, they were just old. Like nineteenth century old in the case of one of my (and I ...more

Alan Hubbard: Will the IOC remain largely a preserve of the rich, the venerable – and the male?
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted December 12, 2012 at 9:09pm

In support of a leading figure, El MoutawakelA visit to Athens this week confirmed the view that the future of London's Olympic Stadium must involve a football club. Without the presence of the round ball game the stadium which gloriously hosted the Olymp...more

“Girly” Girls Can Be Athletes Too
by Game On! Sports Camp 4 Girls
posted December 11, 2012 at 7:53am

I was at a 2012 holiday party when I heard a young father claim with certainty “my 2-year-old daughter is too much of a Girly Girl to ever play sports.” I have to admit that I was taken aback by the comment for a few different reasons.  ...more

Nature Deficit Disorder: The importance of the built environment and children's health
by The Rabbit Hole
posted December 8, 2012 at 10:00pm

Photo from Playscapes."As the garden has grown over the last two years, its play value has increased. Kids play hide and seek inside mature native shrubs, dig holes to compost their recess snacks and use the boulders and logs to play games. One of the won...more

Corporate Greed Is Chewing Up The Olympics
by Off The Court
posted December 7, 2012 at 8:13am

A man holds placards protesting against the corporate sponsorship of and militarisation of the London 2012 Olympics. (Demotix.com) If there was a competition for corporate grubbiness ruining sporting events, the Olympics would take gold every time. Thi...more

The sports media’s rush to judgment on a tragedy
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted December 5, 2012 at 7:23am

  Only a few hours after Jovan Belcher of the Kansas City Chiefs shot his girlfriend to death and then took his own life, grand pronouncements about the cause of this tragedy predictably made their way into publication, and on television airwaves. ...more

Tough Mudder: The Deskilling of the Cross Country Runner? (A look NXN)
by From A Left Wing
posted December 4, 2012 at 7:47am

Painted in mud, the best high school cross-country runners stumbled across the line. The exhausted pack ran their worst times all season. The painfulness of this fact was thrown into stark relief by the boorish slogan suspended across the course finish: ...more

Much more than sports as mere entertainment
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted December 3, 2012 at 2:26pm

Tweet “Those who think that sports are merely entertainment have been bemused by an entertainment culture.” – Michael Novak, “The Joy of Sports” For those who insist that the commercial colossus of major college footba...more

There’s sport in politics: College athlete to campaign operative
by Fair Game News
posted December 1, 2012 at 8:30am

Rachael Goldenberg at campaign HQ   By Rachael Goldenberg Politics is often spoken about in sports metaphors. This election cycle, however, I found that the comparison not only fits, but is key to being a successful political...more

Book Review: Gender & Competition
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted November 28, 2012 at 8:06pm

source In 2000, I took my first collegiate head coaching job.  While I was fired up about coaching and volleyball…I was pretty clueless about what it took to be successful as a leader of young women.  That same year, I went to my coaches...more

You can have hockey or gay rights but not both (under the Harper government)
by The Rabbit Hole
posted November 28, 2012 at 7:35am

Please note this article is cross-posted on Hockey in Society.Stephen Harper.  Photo from Huffington Post.While doing research on hockey and Canadian masculinity I read an article by Jay Scherer and Lisa McDermott, from the University of Alberta, tit...more

The militarization of women's sport?
by The Rabbit Hole
posted November 21, 2012 at 7:28am

Notre Dame vs. Ohio State. Photo from Indy Star.Sport and war have always had strong parallelisms.  Our athletes become warriors and soldiers in the trenches of sport.  As Canadian hockey commentator Don Cherry has said about his favourite enfor...more

An Open Letter To NBC
by Draft Day Suit
posted November 19, 2012 at 7:27pm

Marie has been an Formula 1 fan for 30 years – ever since she fell in love with the sport watching the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix (won by Keke Rosberg).  Her favorite race commentators have to be Murray Walker and Sir Jackie Stewart.  She...more

More hot messes
by After Atalanta
posted November 16, 2012 at 8:18am

It's never great to be outed. It's probably worse to be outed because you have been arrested for aggravated assault against your ex-girlfriend.That is the situation former WNBA and Tennessee Vols player Chamique Holdsclaw finds herself in this week. An ar...more

Study Uses Athletic Participation to Judge Women's "Predisposition" to Sport
by Title IX Blog
posted November 15, 2012 at 7:59pm

A new study in the journal PLOS ONE cites lower rates of athletic participation among women as evidence that men have stronger predisposition to sports than women.   Richard Deaner, a psychologist from Grand Valley State, and his coauthors concl...more

The empowerment potential of sport for women? N of 1
by After Atalanta
posted November 14, 2012 at 8:32pm

I'm pretty sure there was something I was supposed to blog about in the wake of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) annual meeting in New Orleans last night. But I can't remember what it is. So instead thanks to one of my NOLA ro...more

Good News, Proceed With Caution
by The First Line
posted November 14, 2012 at 8:24pm

Since I have long been calling for more (or any) NHL support for the CWHL, you’d think I’d be over the moon about the news that it was finally happening in what seems like a big way.  I am certainly guardedly optimistic, as the politicos ...more

How do female athletes want to be portrayed?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted November 11, 2012 at 10:07am

More than 350 scholars gathered from all over the world for the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) in New Orleans, which concluded on Saturday. The conference offered valuable research for those concerned about...more

Study examines sports journalism, sexual orientation in sport
by Sports, Media & Society
posted November 8, 2012 at 5:17pm

Sport is often linked to heterosexual masculinity, creating an uncomfortable atmosphere for those who do not fit in sport’s perceived mold, especially homosexual athletes. Much research has been done examining sport and sexual orientation in terms ...more

Haven or Hell: Women's sports - a good place to be gay?
by Felicity (Fawkes) Hawksley
posted October 27, 2012 at 4:31pm

It passed under the radar months ago and only hit the headlines with Laura Robson’s cute, understated rainbow hair-tie protest at the Australian Open. Margaret Court, Australian tennis legend, turned wacko chose to speak her mind. Though these mo...more

The Slut-Shaming of Lance Armstrong
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 24, 2012 at 7:44pm

After having read the report what is obvious is that Lance Armstrong did most likely “Pete Rose” me and the rest of the world who thought it couldn’t be possible. He did dope. It was genius. It was well done, and really – bravo for...more

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