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Title IX Dads
by Title IX Blog
posted November 11, 2009 at 4:13pm
In what is being called a love letter to Title IX, writer, editor and father Mark Schmitt penned his tribute to Title IX, his daughter, Little League and social change last week in a very nice column about the legislation in his magazine The American Pros...more
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The Yankees win the World Series… Again
by Draft Day Suit
posted November 6, 2009 at 11:30am
Cross Posted from BlogHer.com
The New York Yankees have won their 27th World Series.
Try to process that for a minute. 27 championship wins. That is insane. That is more than any other team in Major League Baseball. These wins date back to 1923, but tha...more
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Holding McCourt
by amber2jewel
posted November 5, 2009 at 7:13pm
Welcome to the first edition of LOL or BMEO (ball my eyes out) Many stories, especially those worth writing about, elicit a visceral reaction. It either makes me laugh (as in all the way to the bank or because it’s actually hilarious) or cry ...more
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OH NO! I’m a nervous Yankees fan!
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 26, 2009 at 12:13pm
“Oh no! The Yankees are trailing! Wait. No they’re not. They’re winning, but it’s ever so close! It’s troubling me! We’ve waited oh-so-many years for our 87th championship. Few can understand the horror of all this losing! When was our...more
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Fields of discontent in Ohio
by Title IX Blog
posted October 11, 2009 at 7:42pm
A parent has notified the ACLU which has sent a letter to the Chillicoth school district saying that they may be in violation of Title IX due to the discrepancies between the high school's softball and baseball fields. Which are the facilities in question...more
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Can the Rockies do it?
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 9, 2009 at 4:41pm
As a Rockies fan from day one I was over the moon in 2007 when the Rockies finally made it to the post-season with flair. “Rocktober” was coined that year. The whole nation learned who Tulowitski was and why the Denverites loved him so. I don’t kn...more
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Championship Women's Baseball comes to Indiana
by Women's Sports Blog
posted October 3, 2009 at 3:23pm
Despite being a Hoosier, I had to get out the map to find the location of this stadium. The title of the post should have a 'technically' at the end, because even though Google Maps wouldn't show anything so prosaic as state borders, Huntingburg is righ...more
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City of Champions, and the Pirates
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 24, 2009 at 4:30pm
For the next couple of days, thanks to a little thing known as the G-20, Pittsburgh is the center of the universe. I am lucky enough to live right here, in the City of Champions. I moved here for a job 12 years ago and ended up meeting my husband. While t...more
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Top 10 Reasons the Yankees won’t Win the World Series
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 22, 2009 at 1:39pm
1. Karmic Debt
The advent of George Steinbrenner’s ownership of the Yankees roughly coincided with the advent of free agency, Watergate, disco and the birth of many Draft Day Suit writers. As an era, it was a karmic black hole. Steinbrenner’s persi...more
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MLB will not punish Alex Rodriguez for steroid use
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 12, 2009 at 1:16pm
After completing their investigation Major League Baseball has decided not to punish A-Rod.
Well, why the hell not?
Is it okay to cheat as long as you come clean about exactly how long you were breaking the rules and you were telling the truth about tha...more
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Bonnie Mann: Breaking Ground, Discovering Boxing
by The Glowing Edge
posted September 6, 2009 at 9:22pm
I recently had the opportunity to talk with my trainer outside of the gym, and she shared a little bit with me about how she got started in boxing and the one woman and two incredible men who have made all the difference in her 14 year professional box...more
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Learning to hate Tampa Bay
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 1, 2009 at 4:01pm
I should probably be specific here, insofar as that a certain someone who runs this site and has extremely well-documented violent tendencies comes from Tampa and knows all kinds of spiky heavy metal dudes and might well take exception to the ever-so-gent...more
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Hit like a girl
by Cool Adventure Girls!
posted August 29, 2009 at 12:08pm
Throw, hit and run like a girl — at least like 13-year old Katie Reyes from Canada. ESPN reported that Katie’s 9th inning single scored the winning run for a 14-13 victory. And this was not just a neighborhood scrimmage either — it was the Lit...more
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Reyes Wins LLWS Game
by Women's Sports Blog
posted August 28, 2009 at 1:03pm
Katie Reyes of Canada became the first girl to drive in the winning runs in a Little League World Series game as she singled to score two runs and give her team a 14-13 victory against Germany. She had three hits in the game overall. We're probably th...more
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Katie Reyes: Breaking down barriers one game at a time
by Womenstake
posted August 27, 2009 at 8:59pm
by Neena Chaudhry, Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center
Yesterday, a quiet thirteen-year-old girl made history just doing something she loves – playing baseball. Katie Reyes may or may not have known that her actions made history, although s...more
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I hate the Yankees
by Draft Day Suit
posted August 15, 2009 at 6:14pm
By Meesh
I freakin’ hate the New York Yankees.
Always have, always will. For what it’s worth, I come by it honestly. Some families have a strong allegiance to a team for one reason or other…but my family loathes the Yankees together. My da...more
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Golfer Michelle Wie throws out the first pitch
by Pretty Tough
posted August 11, 2009 at 4:18pm
Michelle Wie throws out the first pitch
On Saturday, August 8th, golfer Michelle Wie threw out the first pitch at Dodger Stadium when the Los Angeles Dodgers played the Atlanta Braves.
Before taking the mound, 19-year old Michelle took part in a putti...more
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Another baseball/softball comparison
by Title IX Blog
posted July 27, 2009 at 10:14am
Add C.D. Hylton High School in Virginia to the list of schools being investigated for facility disparities. Like numerous (over 40 according to WaPo) high schools in the United States, C.D. Hylton has a great baseball facility and a sub par softball facil...more
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Yes, women can coach men
by After Atalanta
posted June 19, 2009 at 3:25pm
Two stories about women coaching boys or men recently.One at Hillsborough High in Florida where Stephanie Crawford was recently appointed head coach of the boys' basketball team. Crawford was the girls' team coach at a nearby school but had always wanted...more
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