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Thanks, C. Vivian Stringer
by Title IX Blog
posted September 14, 2009 at 2:10pm

New Hall of Fame inductee C. Vivian Stringer gave a big shoutout to Title IX during her speech at the Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony on Friday evening. All the clips I have seen of the speech--including the ones on ESPN!--use the portion of...more

Which line…male or female?
by One Sport Voice
posted September 13, 2009 at 7:18pm

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the first-ever University of Minnesota Gopher Football game at the new TCF Stadium. The stadium is spectacular and the Gopher’s managed a win over Air Force–a fitting way to christen the stadium....more

Updates on Semenya
by One Sport Voice
posted September 11, 2009 at 4:54pm

New information on Caster Semenya’s sex testing has been reported by Sports Illustrated, NPR, and the Daily Telegraph. Read the numerous comments made in regards to the question posed in the Daily Telegraph “Should Semenya be stripped of her gold m...more

Promised Paper: Ticket Office Sexism (in detail)
by Fair Game News
posted September 11, 2009 at 4:25pm

By Laura Pappano Last spring, an op-ed published in the Christian Science Monitor — “The Price Gap Between Men and Women’s Basketball Tickets is Madness” — drew a slew of responses and comments, including some that were awfully hostile about th...more

Troubling news for Semenya
by After Atalanta
posted September 11, 2009 at 3:47pm

And troubling news all around really. Unofficially, the "gender tests" Caster Semenya underwent during and after the World Championships indicate that she has internal testes and no ovaries or womb. She has pulled out of a race in South Africa that she ha...more

Caster Semenya femmes it up (for critics)
by After Atalanta
posted September 10, 2009 at 12:16pm

What was so great about Caster Semenya's response at the World Championships to the controversy over her gender presentation was that she did not change a thing--and she won the gold medal. She was completely unapologetic about not meeting the standards o...more

The ‘New’ Look of Caster Semenya
by One Sport Voice
posted September 9, 2009 at 4:55pm

Much has been written about the controversy regarding the sex verification testing of Caster Semenya following the IAAF Championships in August 2009 (to read more go here, here, here, & here). Given all Semenya has endured, I can’t say I was surprise...more

Contradictions and Connections: The perils of being a strong woman athlete
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted September 8, 2009 at 11:07pm

Here is an interesting article that puts the “gender verification” challenge of South African runner, Caster Semenya, into a broader social context and discusses the outcry of support for her in South Africa in the context of nationalism, racism and a...more

Women's football makes the sports page!
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 8, 2009 at 9:12pm

Both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune found room on their sports pages recently for coverage of women's football: the Chicago Bliss, part of the newly launched Lingerie Football League. (I only wish I were making this up.) Both papers ran art...more

Editorial linking the stories of Semenya and Simelane
by From A Left Wing
posted September 8, 2009 at 4:15pm

To follow up on posts about Caster Semenya and Eudy Simelane: Mark Gevisser writes a great editorial in South Africa's The Times calling attention to the links between the two stories, "Celebrated and Castigated." Gevisser asks if the conversations about...more

Bud Collins wants you kids to get off his lawn
by Women's Sports Blog
posted September 8, 2009 at 2:33pm

Usually the Times roundtable discussions get at least a few worthwhile points of view in, but yesterday's piece on how to improve tennis was a total dud, beginning with the absence of women (the Deadspin blogger was considered more valuable). But the he...more

What’s in a Name? Powder Puff vs. Girls Flag Football
by The IWFFA Blog
posted September 8, 2009 at 12:24pm

Our last post about an Iowa girl wanting to play flag football, but initially wasn’t allowed, drew up some core issues. Incase you missed it, a 4- year old Iowa girl’s father attempted to enroll her in the Mason City Park and Recreation Department�...more

US Open: USTA apologized for moving the match between Safina and Kvitova from Arthur Ashe to Louis Armstrong Stadium
by WTA Women's Tennis
posted September 8, 2009 at 12:46am

US Open: USTA apologized for moving the match between Safina and Kvitova from Arthur Ashe to Louis Armstrong Stadium Stacey Allaster, the new CEO and Chairman of the WTA Tour, said Monday the USTA has apologized for its late decision to move the third-...more

Observation #1: The Bicycle Built for 2
by One Sport Voice
posted September 7, 2009 at 11:29pm

It didn’t take long for me to log my first observation of the new academic year. I was out taking a bike ride and all of a sudden a 2 seated bicycle and its passengers passed me going the other way. I’ve seen many of these bikes over the years, but ...more

US Open: Serena Williams :”Officials should not have switched Safina’s match”
by WTA Women's Tennis
posted September 7, 2009 at 4:40pm

US Open: Serena Williams :”Officials should not have switched Safina’s match” Serena Williams felt Dinara Safina had every right to feel annoyed after U.S. Open organisers bumped the Russian off Arthur Ashe Stadium for her third-round match again...more

4-year old Iowa girl is granted the right to play flag football
by The IWFFA Blog
posted September 7, 2009 at 2:08pm

MASON CITY — A 4-year-old Mason City girl will play flag football after all. Sabrina Holland’s father, Ronnie, was told only boys could play flag football when he attempted to sign her up last week for the Mason City Park and Recreation Department�...more

Latest fallout in Semenya mess: Coach resigns in protest
by Women's Sports Blog
posted September 7, 2009 at 1:37pm

A top South African track coach has resigned over what he says were dishonestly presented gender tests for the athlete. When will the IAAF join the 21st century? ...more

Women Not Big Fans of Pro Sports, and Editors Still Use Sex to Sell Reporting to Men
by The Glowing Edge
posted September 5, 2009 at 9:30pm

This infuriates me. Not the report on this study, which I found interesting, if not surprising, but the stupid decision to slap a cheesecake photo of a cheerleader at the top. It’s so damn hard to get any respect, I swear it is. Go ahead. I’ll wait...more

New Playlist for Boxing Training
by The Glowing Edge
posted September 5, 2009 at 1:03pm

One of my super-tough MMA chick friends (who will box with me periodically and who is helping me learn ju jitsu: fist bump Junie!) sent me a few suggestions for refreshing my quickly-getting-tiresome Shuffle playlist for training. Her main additions to...more

Swiss basketball body forbids Muslim headscarf
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted September 5, 2009 at 12:37pm

REITNAU, Switzerland (AP) -A Muslim woman has been told by the Swiss basketball association that she can't wear a headscarf when she plays in league games.Sura Al-Shawk, a 19-year-old Swiss citizen of Iraqi origin, is making her debut in a regional women'...more

U.S. drops a game before roaring back In Canada Cup
by Women's Sports Blog
posted September 3, 2009 at 1:35pm

Well that was unexpected. Here I was, preparing a post about social and cultural reasons for the utter dominance of the U.S. and Canada in women's hockey (those reasons are not very clear cut, to be sure), and the Americans go and lose their opening mat...more

Study finds correlation between sexist team names and women'sathletic opportunities
by Title IX Blog
posted September 2, 2009 at 9:31pm

A recent article (well, 2008, but it only just now came across my radar) in the journal Sociology of Education examines team nicknames in college and university athletics and suggests that schools that use sexist nomenclature to distinguish their women's...more

Female fandom: Study says they don't like the pros
by After Atalanta
posted September 2, 2009 at 10:53am

A study out of Canada about the gendered nature of fandom reveals that women are not huge fans of professional sports. Not a shocker despite the plethora of popular media accounts of women forming fan clubs and becoming the latest target demographic for f...more

Pro Squash player Suzie Pierrepont talks passion, tournaments, and — yep — women’s (lower) pay
by Fair Game News
posted September 1, 2009 at 10:42pm

By Sarah Odell I met professional squash player Suzie Pierrepont last spring at the U25 National Doubles Tournament at the Field Club of Greenwich, CT. Suzie, a 23-year-old Brit, is ranked 25th in the world and is now based in the U.S. at the Apawamis ...more

Colorado making progress
by Title IX Blog
posted August 31, 2009 at 12:28pm

As part of University of Colorado's settlement of a sexual harassment lawsuit with two former students, the university hired lawyer, law professor, and Title IX expert Nancy Hogshead-Makar to review existing gender discrimination and sexual harassment po...more

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