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Stilettos & Heels: “Helping” Female Athletes Transition to the Real World
by One Sport Voice
posted July 27, 2009 at 6:31pm

Today the NCAA Double-A-Zone blog posted information on two programs that are helping prepare female student-athletes for the real world. Kansas’ “Hoop 2 Heels” and Oklahoma’s “Sooner Stilettos” aim to help female athletes transition from a...more

Out of a job, out of the paper
by MichelleSmith
posted July 16, 2009 at 1:21pm

Women's sports coverage being hurt by cutbacks at newspapers...more

Bad news for Diana Taurasi, Mercury star faces extreme-DUI charge
by HoopFeed.com
posted July 14, 2009 at 7:43pm

Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi pleads not-guilty to three drunk-driving related charges stemming from a July 2 incident in which she was cited for a DUI. The charges, filed in Phoenix Municipal court, originate from an early morning police traffic st...more

This week: New York Liberty tickets giveaway contest; sports industry career fair
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted July 13, 2009 at 4:05pm

Check it out – there’s a giveaway for tickets to the 7/30 New York Liberty game vs the Washington Mystics over at WomenTalkSports.com. If you work in the industry and you live in New York, it may benefit you to attend the Liberty’s career fair bein...more

Choosing a Sport Management Program
by Sport Management Education
posted July 7, 2009 at 11:29am

This week’s post is a recycled entry from January. Choosing a college is a very stressful time and with allof the pressure and misinformation that is put on students it does not make the process any easier. This is my first post on blogspot.com (...more

Want a job in pro sports? Become an intern!
by Soccer Science
posted July 4, 2009 at 1:11pm

It’s been an absolutely crazy couple months here at the WPS League office so instead of sitting down and writing one long drawn out blog post, I’m pledging one blog post every other day for the next two weeks with one unique update each time. To...more

Venice gets its first female gondolier
by Pretty Tough
posted June 30, 2009 at 1:12pm

It’s a familiar site on the water street of Venice, the striped shirts and flat hats of the gondoliers expertly steering their black boats underneath bridge after bridge in the picturesque city. And now, after 900 years, the canals of Venice, Italy f...more

Easing the transition from high school to college
by Sport Management Education
posted June 29, 2009 at 12:22pm

High school graduations across the nation have come and gone and hopefully the graduates are enjoying their summer. As they prepare to head off to college in the fall there are a few things that come to mind that will help in the transition from high ...more

Ask me anything
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted June 25, 2009 at 3:35pm

Today I get on a plane and head to Eugene for the 2009 National Championships. I don’t compete until Sunday so I’ll have a few days to relax and get mentally prepared to do battle. As it is a fairly well known fact that this weekend is an important ...more

Volunteer caddy tells his story
by Ladies on the Tee
posted June 24, 2009 at 7:42pm

We asked one volunteer at the Duramed to tell us what it was like to be ‘on the bag’. Wow, what an experience I had this past weekend working as a volunteer at the Duramed Championship for the Duramed Futures Tour in Mason, Ohio. I volunteered as a...more

Dealing with the media: Preparing means winning
by Hoop Thoughts
posted June 24, 2009 at 12:34pm

Another one of my Twitter discoveries is Kathleen Hessert the President of Sports Media Challenge. She has help revolutionize Twitter in the sports world and the specific example I am aware of his tutoring of Shaquille O'Neal who has really maximized twit...more

The Value of Golf ProAm Events
by Ladies on the Tee
posted June 22, 2009 at 8:37pm

Recently I played in one of the Duramed Championship’s Pro-Am in Mason, OH. I was teamed with Local News Anchor, Cammy Dierking, Brittany Zins, a local high school golfer who won an essay contest provided by Rumpke, a Cincinnati based company and our ...more

Dads: Important role models for female athletes
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted June 21, 2009 at 7:35pm

This post tells readers the importance of fathers in the lives of female athletes....more

Happy Birthday, Venus Williams
by Pretty Tough
posted June 17, 2009 at 4:35pm

Seventeen Grand Slam titles, two Olympic gold medals and a host of other championships make Venus Williams one of the most recognizable figures in professional tennis. The birthday girl’s resume off the court is nearly as impressive as her on court a...more

Azzi all the Way, Baby!!
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted June 16, 2009 at 7:01pm

You Didn’t think we would let Jennifer Azzi’s induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in June go by unnoticed did ya?It wasn’t just what she did; she was the first in so many ways for Stanford. Jennifer brought Stanford's first national...more

Is Maria Verchenova the Maria Sharapova of Golf?
by Pretty Tough
posted June 15, 2009 at 7:35pm

Generally I’m not a fan of labels or comparisons. But Maria Verchenova, a young female golfer from Moscow, is being compared to her compatriot Maria Sharapova. These comparisons, not surprisingly, are based as much on Verchenova’s beauty as he...more

YCP Sport Management alum enjoys the NPF
by Sport Management Education
posted June 15, 2009 at 6:49pm

Jean Olchowy ('09) This week’s post was written by Jeana Olchowy (’09). Jeana graduated in May and is currently working for the Philadelphia Force which is a member of National Pro Fastpitch (NPF). ...more

Eva Garcia: a remembrance
by Athletic Women Blog
posted June 15, 2009 at 2:15pm

When I wrote about Vicki Unus, and later Kaatie Akstinat, I was motivated by a profound respect for female aerialists. The female aerialist, at once formidable athlete and sublime artist, reveals an oft-hidden truth when she performs: that beauty and stre...more

Dear Rich Lerner:
by After Atalanta
posted June 15, 2009 at 12:17pm

How long do you think you will stick around the golf scene, doing commentary? You know, 'cause you're married and all?Of course you've been married for a while now. You even have two kids! And yet you still work! Amazing!And so I wonder why it is you aske...more

Sports Industry: Summer Job
by Sport Management Education
posted June 8, 2009 at 12:34pm

As a college professor, I look forward to and enjoy the summer months because I am on vacation. But vacation means different things to different people. I spend my vacations relaxing, catching up on some reading, playing golf, spending time with famil...more

Game stories by computer program
by Sports, Media & Society
posted June 8, 2009 at 11:41am

Students at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism may have just invented another nail for the coffin for sports beat writers. Students there are perfecting "machine generated sports stories" (MGSS), a tool that produces computer-generated sports stor...more

Out of my comfort zone
by I Run - Therefore I Blog
posted May 25, 2009 at 1:51pm

Almost seven years ago I started working for Löplabbet. Today is my first day at a new job at Milslukern. New colleagues and new challenges. I'm stepping out of my comfort zone and into something I don't know where will bring me.What I know is that I wil...more

Breaking into the Sports Management World
by Athletic Women Blog
posted May 18, 2009 at 12:25pm

Note: Today you are blessed with a stay of sorts, a guest blogger. Enjoy!—Rob In the past decade, women in sports jobs have increased their prominence in the sports world, slowly overtaking various obstacles to get where they are at today. Many sports...more

Happy Anniversary - A Jumper's Journal
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted May 16, 2009 at 6:36pm

She texted me last week to let me know it was the anniversary. Anniversary? What anniversary? Definitely not one of the romantic sort because we all know that there is nothing to celebrate in that area of life. What else should I be remembering on a y...more

On the Right Track: Bike to Work Day
by Pretty Tough
posted May 13, 2009 at 5:30pm

It’s not a revolution, not yet anyway, but clearly more people are commuting by bicycle. Friday is national Bike-to-Work Day, drawing even more attention to the trend. There are more bicycles on the road than there were a year ago, more than even a cou...more

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