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Promoting ESPN Magazine's Body Issue
by After Atalanta
posted November 8, 2011 at 12:45am
I know I am a little late to the game here but 1) I haven't been checking my After Atalanta email (if anyone knows an easy way to forward gmail to another account please enlighten me) and 2) sick...sick sick sick. But I did manage to get a copy of ESPN Ma...more
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'Lacking' in teen girls' sports novels
by Sports, Media & Society
posted November 6, 2011 at 3:26pm
Finding a good sports novel about teen girls has proven difficult for librarians. The genre is "severely lacking," according Erin Whiteside, a 2010 Penn State doctoral graduate and current assistant professor at the University of Tennessee.Whiteside prese...more
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I see gendered people
by After Atalanta
posted November 2, 2011 at 9:21pm
ESPNW has an interview with Mary Wittenberg who is the current president of the New York Road Runners. And by virtue of her position as president and CEO, she is in charge of the NYC Marathon--which happens this weekend. She is the first female president ...more
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Pretty in Pink - Understanding the "girl jersey"
by The Rabbit Hole
posted October 27, 2011 at 8:46am
*Note: cross posted on Hockey in SocietyOkay, per a request from my friend and fellow blogger Mr. Mark Norman, I have been asked to write a post on the infamous pink jersey/"girl jersey". It is a topic that divides sports fans like Moses divided the sea. ...more
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The Absurdity of the Lingerie Basketball League
by SLAM Online -W
posted October 25, 2011 at 4:08pm
by Ben York / @bjyork
When you visit the Lingerie Basketball League’s website, a short video starts to play that showcases pictures of the league’s scantily clad players. The women wear little more than a bra and underwear and have some sort of weird...more
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Comparing male and female athletes
by One Sport Voice
posted October 10, 2011 at 9:48pm
While talking with a reporter today about WNBA Champions the Minnesota Lynx, I had a realization…it most likely isn’t new, but I’d never thought about selective comparisons between male and female athletes in quite this way before.
Comparisons bet...more
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ESPN Body Issue: Progress or backlash?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted October 7, 2011 at 1:56am
Yesterday, ESPN released selected images online from the 2011 edition of The Body Issue, expected to appear in a magazine form this Friday.
I awaited the day with curiously to see what ESPN will tell us this year about “bodies we want.” I’m not su...more
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Skills And Character, Not Looks, Make Athletes Heroes
by The First Line
posted October 6, 2011 at 9:21pm
All credit to Julie Chu for representing women’s hockey in ESPN’s Body Issue. That said, the concept itself remains deeply flawed, which is not her fault. Yes, the photography is gorgeous and even in this day and age the nudity is striking. I do...more
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Opposing Views of Media Portrayals of Female Athletes
by One Sport Voice
posted October 6, 2011 at 1:49am
With the 2011 issue of ESPN The Body Issue magazine coming to shelves Friday, and images being released online today, I thought it a good time to summarize common ways media portrayals of females athletes are framed and discussed. Today I got to hear coll...more
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Putting some layers on lingerie football
by Off The Court
posted September 28, 2011 at 11:39am
Australia has its first lingerie football star, Chloe Butler. For the former AIS runner it’s cause for celebration. She plays tackle football in front of stadiums full of fans – something which young girls in Townsville where she grew up could only dr...more
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The NCAA's position of power
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 25, 2011 at 2:51pm
In the college sports landscape, the NCAA typically positions itself as a judicious, morally sanctified, student-athlete protection system. But many have questioned this position for the non-profit organization that generates millions of dollars of revenu...more
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Slam W: Women’s Basketball and a Unique Double Standard
by SLAM Online -W
posted September 21, 2011 at 7:45pm
by Ben York / @bjyork
People know me as a pretty easy-going dude. I tend to go with the flow and am about as laid-back a person as you’ll ever meet. I do a lot of volunteering, have been a Big Brother for almost a decade, and have been involved with ma...more
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Is Red Bull ignoring women?
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted September 15, 2011 at 12:18pm
Easkey Britton for Red Bulletin 2010 It cracks me up that Red Bull sponsor so many extreme or action sports events. Strikes me the last thing you need as you pump your heart full of adrenaline is a few shots of that stuff swirling around in the mix. A l...more
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Take Back Recess!
by Byline to Finish Line
posted September 15, 2011 at 2:20am
The playground at my elementary school had a huge rectangle of blacktop which served as our kickball diamond and where we played the game “colors.” See, in the far corner (away from the kickball diamond) was a map of the United States. The states were...more
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Women's Football: the women are ready, but America isn't
by anngaff
posted September 12, 2011 at 10:16am
The D.C. Divas before kickoff
"How is that funded?" he asked, referring to the soccer camps I had described that are available to young girls in the United States, from a very young age.
"Well, the parents pay to send their girls there. Sometimes, uni...more
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Is Hockey Becoming Football?
by The First Line
posted September 3, 2011 at 11:37pm
Unfortunately I don’t mean the sport is experiencing a surge of popularity in the U.S. which would mean entire days on television devoted to its minutiae. Nor do I mean it’s suddenly become much more racially and ethnically diverse. Instead, the N...more
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Too pretty to do homework. Really?
by Byline to Finish Line
posted September 2, 2011 at 12:38am
It’s the first day of September and that means two things for me:
Frantically checking that my parents’ wedding anniversary is indeed on Sept. 2 so I didn’t miss it. (Check. It is indeed tomorrow.)
Back to school.
While it has been many years si...more
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Judge Danica Patrick for work on track
by Sports, Media & Society
posted August 30, 2011 at 12:57pm
With Danica Patrick’s recent announcement that she intends to race full time in NASCAR in 2012, it will be intriguing to observe how she will now be portrayed by various media outlets.
Patrick, who’s the main sponsorship face for GoDaddy.com, seemin...more
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"Playing like a girl" - A call to men
by The Rabbit Hole
posted August 24, 2011 at 6:18pm
I was playing some social club tennis today and came home to immediately blog about my experience. I have played at this particular tennis club since I was 14 years old. I am a 4.5 singles player and 5.0 doubles player and for non-tennis aficionados all y...more
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Little League World Series broadcasts inequality
by Fair Game News
posted August 20, 2011 at 3:36pm
By Laura Pappano
If it’s late August, it must be Little League World Series time – and our annual reminder of why Title IX is needed, but not enough.
The disparities in treatment, support, and attention for male and female athletes begins early, and...more
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