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WNBA: Stop complaining and do your part
by They're Playing Basketball
posted May 6, 2012 at 11:16pm

Last month, NBA Commissioner David Stern and WNBA President Laurel Richie made these comments in a piece, ironically called "Shining a Light on the WNBA":One of the things Stern, and the other representatives of the league, spoke most passionately about w...more

Broken Systems: Sport, Education & Health Care
by One Sport Voice
posted April 25, 2012 at 12:37pm

The health care debate over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has got me thinking about systems. Like many Americans I didn’t know much about the ACA, only that it is hotly contested. Unlike many Americans I have recently taken some time to get educated...more

One writer says Kim Mulkey "dropped the ball"
by They're Playing Basketball
posted April 15, 2012 at 6:11pm

The comments on my previous entry on the Baylor recruiting scandal are running 3-1 against Coach Kim Mulkey. Today longtime Washington Post writer Sally Jenkins added her two cents, and she's on the side of the three: she says Mulkey dropped the ball on p...more

Fair Ball: The Orientalism of Canada going to Uganda to play baseball
by The Rabbit Hole
posted April 10, 2012 at 10:02am

Photo from the Toronto Star. Recently, Sportsnet aired a 30 minute documentary about the Canadian little league team flying to Uganda to play a World Series game that never occurred called Fair Ball.  The documentary and the team were sponsored by R...more

Augusta National: When “Tradition” = Justified Discrimination
by One Sport Voice
posted April 6, 2012 at 12:55pm

I’ve been following the story of IBM CEO Virginia Rometty and the Augusta National green jacket/membership controversy. In short, IBM is a long time sponsor of The Masters golf tournament, held at Augusta National Golf Club which bans women from me...more

Unseen, unappreciated, undiscovered . . . . unfair
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted March 29, 2012 at 12:05pm

Author:  Dr. Marilyn McNeil Clips Guest Commentary Lopsided media coverage continues, and the growth of women’s basketball is being stifled as a result. By Dr. Marilyn McNeil, Monmouth University AD, 3-25-12 Ed.-Dr. Ma...more

Culture vultures and violent male athletes
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted March 11, 2012 at 12:42pm

Sexual assault charges against two members of Boston University’s wildly successful ice hockey team have prompted the usual media hand-wringing on the meaning of it all in a societal context. So naturally, we must have a quote like this one in The ...more

Standards of journalism and the Title IX blame game
by Title IX Blog
posted February 28, 2012 at 2:25pm

Ebuz and I often discuss the need for greater awareness of the intricacies of Title IX--or even just the basic facts--that are free from common misconceptions. We wish, for example, that Title IX training for athletic department administrators happened be...more

The SI swimsuit challenge: What’s a mom to do?
by Fair Game News
posted February 21, 2012 at 12:31pm

     By Katie Culver There is not a lot of media coverage of female athletes, but when there is I like my daughter, who is five years old, to see it. I try to records as many women’s sporting events as I can for her to watch. Rece...more

Sexist Tweets, OK. Racist Tweets, Not So Much
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted February 14, 2012 at 7:09pm

In the space of two weeks reporters for national media have gotten themselves into hot water for tweets about sporting events. First up – Roland Martin of CNN who was disturbed by the David Beckham underwear ad broadcast during the Super Bowl. His...more

Boxing Ring Card Girls
by The Glowing Edge
posted February 9, 2012 at 3:22pm

Ring-Card Girls. Three small words. But stand by for big arguments when they’re mentioned in conversation between men and women. Adam Welsh is a British-based Human Resources Manager with a keen interest in many sports, including boxing. You may ...more

Loree Smith on Interest vs. Passion
by Loree: A Skirt, A Hammer, A Life, and A Dream
posted February 7, 2012 at 5:23pm

The Superbowl is over.  Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen articles and heard radio shows talking about grown men crying after the game.   There were laughs at crying over a game, and if and when it was okay for a man to cry.  I find ...more

Food, football, feminism and a Super Bowl unseen
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted February 5, 2012 at 3:49pm

Tweet During the height of my most ardent feminist days, I gave up watching the Super Bowl. Voluntarily. This was Super Bowl XIX in 1985, the 49ers vs. the Dolphins. Joe Montana vs. Dan Marino. Hyped as a classic showdown between the two brightest young...more

And now college athletics ‘reform’ season begins
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted January 11, 2012 at 7:22pm

Alabama had barely hoisted the BCS national championship trophy late Monday night when the long-winded explications of the entire college athletic landscape were being churned out. Actually, those missives have been continuing for a good long while. But ...more

Best of 2011: Issues in women’s sports
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted December 30, 2011 at 9:25pm

This week I’m bringing back some of my favorite posts from the year, and especially those that generated some good conversation. Issue pieces in sports always seem to do the trick, and these were no different. In June I posted a 10-part series I ca...more

Think Fresh: Enough Merry (girl or boy) Christmas
by Fair Game News
posted December 19, 2011 at 3:49pm

By Katie Culver I work – really hard – at avoiding gender stereotypes with kids so I decided to tick through what we had lined up for Christmas this year: there was the Wii for my son and an American Girl doll for my daughter. Err – I m...more

‘Loosen your girdle and let ‘er fly!’
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted December 17, 2011 at 3:26pm

Tweet So I’m about to push the “send order” button to Amazon/Santa for the sports book wish list I blogged about here last week, and “Wonder Girl,” Don Van Natta’s recent biography of Babe Didrickson Zaharias, is one o...more

WPS gets reprieve (+ being a women's sports fan)
by After Atalanta
posted December 14, 2011 at 1:24am

Despite its inability to add another team to the league, US Soccer has granted Women's Professional Soccer another waiver allowing it to remain a Division I league. Division I leagues are required to have eight teams; WPS currently has five. But, in ...more

Ben York On Sexism and Women’s Basketball
by SLAM Online -W
posted December 14, 2011 at 1:17am

by Ben York / @bjyork As you know, when someone bashes the WNBA and/or women’s basketball I typically remain silent and dignified. *dramatic pause* (laughs) If you’re wondering if I typed the above sentence with a straight face, the answer ...more

The Irony of a Woman’s Professional Uniform in Sport
by One Sport Voice
posted December 12, 2011 at 6:43pm

This blog is about the irony of what is deemed appropriate workplace attire for women in the context of sport. I have written quite a bit about the Lingerie Football League and my disdain for the league and their claims it promotes women’s sport (t...more

NBC is no friend to track and field
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted December 2, 2011 at 5:09pm

I’ve never hid my opinion of NBC’s coverage of the Olympics and track and field. I think it’s remarkably poor, jingoistic and antiquated. (Note: many of the announcers are quite good, but TV is a producer’s medium and that’...more

Sport Scandals, Sexy Babes & Social Responsibility
by One Sport Voice
posted December 1, 2011 at 1:02pm

As I posted previously, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in a host of stimulating conferences and conversations in the past eight weeks related to girls and women in sport. I’m still musing about many things, but here are three I’...more

"Most of us are still Neanderthals" - Sexuality in Professional Sports
by The Rabbit Hole
posted November 27, 2011 at 4:01pm

On November 22, 2011 the NY Daily News published an article titled "MLB's new collective bargaining agreement to add 'sexual orientation' to discrimination clause."Sounds progressive right? Not exactly. The new CBA, released Tuesday, added the words &ldq...;more

Acknowledging the price of college athletes
by Sports, Media & Society
posted November 17, 2011 at 2:26pm

ESPN the Magazine recently teamed up with MIT researchers to determine the value of college athletes at Florida University. (The article can also be found here through ESPN’s Insider service.) The results shouldn’t be surprising to anybody who knows ...more

More Notes on a Scandal: Cultures of Compliance (the Penn State/Berkeley comparison)
by From A Left Wing
posted November 12, 2011 at 5:06pm

The other week, my university's Chancellor sent out a message encouraging people to respect each other's differences - be they cultural, political, religious, academic, etc. It's the kind of thing administrators generate to look like they are doing the ...more

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