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Lance Armstrong: Hero and Villain
by The Rabbit Hole
posted October 18, 2012 at 7:52am

Photo from The Guardian.The other shoe has essentially dropped. Armstrong has stepped down as the chairman of the Livestrong Foundation while sponsors such as Anheuser-Busch, Trek bicycles and Nike have dropped him like a sack of potatoes.  Nike...more

The Saturday Sports Reader: Convicting Lance Armstrong
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted October 13, 2012 at 6:18pm

  My previously expressed views (here and here) on the “investigation” of Lance Armstrong by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency haven’t changed with this week’s release of its “Reasoned Decision,” a lengthy accumulation ...more

Great Find – Exxo Arm Sleeves for Youth Sports
by Sports Girls Play
posted October 3, 2012 at 8:52am

This time of year playing an outdoor sport (softball, football, soccer, field hockey, lacrosse or cross country) means you need to be prepared for every kind of weather! You might start the first half of the soccer game in the nice warm sun but as so...more

Enjoy Some Good Ol' HATE MAIL!
by Felicity (Fawkes) Hawksley
posted September 29, 2012 at 9:47am

I just sent this email to the Guardian Sports desk.  I doubt very much that anyone will ever read it; that I will ever get a reply or that their practices will change.  Hence the silly tone - might as well have some fun whilst you're failing ...more

“Adios Bitches” Cost U.S. Women’s Field Hockey Coach His Job
by Pretty Tough
posted September 29, 2012 at 12:12am

An Olympic coach who wrote, “Adios bitches” as his signoff in an email letter to members of the U.S. women’s Under-21 field hockey team was recently fired. Junior national field hockey team coach Nick Conway was let go after taking the t...more

Short and Tweet, but to what end?
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted September 24, 2012 at 2:08pm

Tweet Just as Sports Illustrated’s latest Twitter 100 list was released at the end of last week, semi-retired Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan tells Sports Business Daily in an exit interview of sorts that: “The Twitter world has perve...more

Why the term 'tomboy' needs to go
by The Rabbit Hole
posted September 21, 2012 at 6:20am

I used to be a tomboy. Technically, I suppose I still am a tomboy.  I was always proud to be identified as a tomboy. It meant I wasn't a girly-girl. It meant I was good at sports.  A couple of decades later I realize that I was, still am, and wi...more

Professor Grossman's Column on Single-Sex Education
by Title IX Blog
posted September 19, 2012 at 5:47pm

Hofstra law professor Joanna Grossman's most recent column on Justia.com examines the ACLU's recent challenge to single-sex classes at a West Virginia middle school (a case we also blogged about) and its study of single-sex education in America, called "T...more

Tasteless jokes about football video games to justify Violence Against Women
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted September 18, 2012 at 9:23pm

BY: SHIREEN AHMEDI'm not a much of a recreational gamer. I have never been interested in video games. I don't like simulating life when one can be OUT there actually living it. Why play NBA or NHL when one can go outside or to a gym and engage in real pla...more

The cautious progress narrative?
by After Atalanta
posted September 18, 2012 at 9:17pm

I started reading this column with a little hesitation. The end of the Kournikova era? Really? Are not female athletes, including the columnist's celebrated Alex Morgan, still stripping down to promote their bodies, um, er, their sport, um...? Yes, it's ...more

Athletes don't need to be vocal activists
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 12, 2012 at 8:37pm

Nation sports editor Dave Zirin does a fantastic job of chronicling the nexus of sport and politics in his documentary “Not Just a Game”. The movie adroitly highlights the manifestation of dominant ideologies in American society and how they...more

OCR Called to Investigate Title IX Violations by the South Carolina Department of Education and 20 School Districts
by Title IX Blog
posted September 10, 2012 at 7:26am

We've got our eye on a number of complaints reportedly filed with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights targeting sex discrimination in athletics in the state of South Carolina.  One complaint names the South Carolina Department ...more

Purple? Man, That’s So Gay!
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted September 8, 2012 at 12:38am

This is what the banner said. The banner was held up by student spectators at a nationally televised high school football in Alabama.  You can read about it here.  The purpose of the banner was to insult the opposing school team whose team colo...more

Oregon parent pursues lawsuit
by Title IX Blog
posted September 7, 2012 at 7:23am

In July we wrote about Randy Anderson, a parent of a softball player in the Seaside School District in Oregon. He was challenging the lack of access the girls' softball team had to the city's new premier athletic facility. The school district later announ...more

Sportista: New book looks at female sports fandom
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 3, 2012 at 7:56am

If you had to describe female sports fans, what would you say about them? How do they consume sports? How do they talk about sports? How are they “treated” by the traditionally male sports culture? What are the media outlets that serve their ...more

The triumph of American anti-doping zealotry
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted August 27, 2012 at 2:05pm

Isn’t anyone in the establishment sports media the least bit uncomfortable that the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that has brought Lance Armstrong to his knees gets a good bit of its funding through a grant from the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Po...more

It’s Like Deja Vu All Over Again…Or Is It?
by Draft Day Suit
posted August 25, 2012 at 9:22pm

The Lance Armstrong scandal has rocked not just the cycling world but the sports world because, in short order one of the worlds greatest athletes has been given the scarlet letter of shame, simply for refusing to continue along an arbitration process tha...more

The Olympics was a Non-Event
by The Rabbit Hole
posted August 20, 2012 at 8:22am

we, at the height of reality - and with information at its peak - no longer know whether anything has taken place or not...  - Jean Baudrillard, The Vital Illusion Photo from SWF Kits. "When watching London Olympics 2012 in real-time, audiences can ...more

“IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME” or, A Real Olympic Legacy
by Women in Sport International
posted August 18, 2012 at 7:35am

Tweet “IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME” or, A Real Olympic Legacy By Felicity Hawksley, Twitter: @thesportscarton, Personal Blog: http://stackpolesspin.wordpress.com/ The marginally incorrect “if you build it, they will come” i...more

Oh the Irony!: Nike's Gold Diggers
by From A Left Wing
posted August 16, 2012 at 5:20pm

  Can Nike come up with an Olympic motto worse than "Greatness has been found?" YES!Of course, this shirt is only sold in women's sizes. Nike explains itself: “Nike has consistently supported female athletes and the position they e...more

NBC’s Coverage of Olympic Track and Field
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 16, 2012 at 7:24am

I told everyone I knew who cares even the slightest about sports or my hometown of Toledo that it was happening at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, August 7. It was the men’s high jump final, and Toledoan Erik Kynard, an alumni of my junior high and who spent h...more

"United We Stand"... no honor among bigots.
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted August 13, 2012 at 8:49pm

By: Shireen AHMEDThese Olympic Games have been hailed a success and triumph for women in sports. For the first time, every participating country has entered females athletes, including Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.During the last 2 weeks, women's sporting...more

Fears about boxing should not be a gender issue
by Sports, Media & Society
posted August 13, 2012 at 8:40pm

One and done. This is what columnist Linda Chavez believes needs to happen with women’s boxing. Chavez wrote in the New York Post late last week, “Is there no evolutionary advantage in having half the population play a gentler, more nurturing...more

Harper, Wells, Jones: Controversy or Media hype?
by JHayes
posted August 9, 2012 at 4:59pm

I do not normally get involved in other peoples' drama but with the past couple days of tweets, articles, and television interviews of Dawn Harper, Kellie Wells, and Lolo Jones, I have been encouraged to say my "peace".  Let me also just give you a c...more

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