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A guide dog helps turn teen girl into a champion
by Pretty Tough
posted October 16, 2011 at 8:54pm

File this under Pretty Awesome. Ohio cross country runner Sami Stoner has yet to cross the finish line in first place, but she has won over fans across the nation while trying. In the process, she’s become a champion for teens with challenges. Stoner...more

School District to Renovate Softball Fields
by Title IX Blog
posted October 12, 2011 at 6:36pm

The Kennett Consolidated School District in Chester County, Pennsylvania, will improve its girls' softball field, having voted this week to retain a contractor to design and conduct the renovation, at an estimated cost of $30,000. Reportedly, the boys' b...more

Talkin' college basketball, coaching, recruiting and updates
by They're Playing Basketball
posted October 7, 2011 at 1:53am

Colegio:President Obama had national champions Texas A&M;to the White House today to congratulate them on their win. Notre Dame superstar guard Skylar Diggins shares pre-game tips. Ohhhh, this girl is silly :)The CSUN Matadors will host a free youth clini...more

A Long Road to Safety, Let Alone Freedom: The Murder of a High School Basketball Star
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted October 6, 2011 at 9:17pm

In mid-September nationally ranked high school basketball star, Tayshana “Chicken” Murphy was shot to death by three young men in the hallway of her apartment building. At first, police assumed the murder was a case of mistaken identity. Tayshana had...more

Talkin' basketball coverage, freshmen and recruiting visits
by They're Playing Basketball
posted September 29, 2011 at 2:12pm

Clay Kallam says high school sports coverage in the Northern California area is in danger, due to the consolidation of several small publications:High school sports is the most labor-intensive activity in the sports department. (All local news coverage is...more

A Girl's POV: Sports as a Lifestyle
by CPS8910
posted September 26, 2011 at 6:42pm

In the first Chicks Play Sports Guest Blog: Kailey Urbaniak writes about how sports has become a lifestyle. “Lifestyle” can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Everyone’s life is unique, whether you’re sixteen or s...more

How To Equip Our Female Athletes To Be Leaders
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted September 26, 2011 at 2:19pm

source Do you believe that your job is to equip your players with life skills as well as sport skills? Well, this post will be right up your alley! In a TEDtalk called, New Data On The Rise Of Women, Hanna Rosin give tons of facts about how women are...more

Conference realignment: Not the only story in college sports...what about the explosion in high school coverage?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 20, 2011 at 10:51pm

While shuffling in the Big 12, ACC, and other conferences has grabbed sports headlines this week, we wonder if the story with far bigger, more profound long-term implications for the future of sports in the educational setting isn't the recent NCAA decis...more

Distance Running for Teen Girls
by Sports Girls Play
posted September 20, 2011 at 10:36pm

Long distance running can be intense and challenging. Yet, with women’s cross country and track and field on the rise, at both the professional and scholastic levels, more and more teen and preteen girls are taking up the sport. Whether competitive or...more

Cards and donations for Tayshana Murphy family
by They're Playing Basketball
posted September 17, 2011 at 3:04am

A wake for high school basketball sensation Tayshana Murphy, gunned down last Sunday morning, just ended in New York City. Her funeral is tomorrow.Send condolence cards and/or donations to cover funeral and burial expenses to her parents:Tephanie Holson a...more

Indianapolis high school imposes strict segregation
by Title IX Blog
posted September 16, 2011 at 12:57am

Since the case in Vermillion Parish (LA) was settled last year (disallowing single-sex classrooms), there has been a spot open for the public school that could execute the strictest form of sex-segregation.Looks like Arlington Community High School in Ind...more

Tayshana Murphy's family invites suspects families to meeting to stop feud
by They're Playing Basketball
posted September 16, 2011 at 12:49am

The family of the slain basketball star has invited the families of the suspects in her death to a public meeting tonight, in hopes of stopping the feud between the Grant and Manhattanville housing projects.A fundraiser was held last night, and Murphy's ...more

No suspects in Tayshana Murphy killing, but police now say she was targeted
by They're Playing Basketball
posted September 14, 2011 at 1:51am

I can't get this story out of my mind.The latest, posted just a short time ago, indicates investigators now think Tayshana Murphy was targeted in the shooting and that her death wasn't a case of mistaken identity after all.Until now, New York Channel 1 an...more

High School basketball star shot: R.I.P. Tayshana “Chicken” Murphy
by HoopFeed.com
posted September 11, 2011 at 2:20pm

Tayshana “Chicken” Murphy, an 18-year-old prep star from New York City died Sunday morning from a gunshot wound to the head according to news reports. Her family told the New York Daily News that it was a case of mistaken identity and that Murphy plea...more

Preserving 'amateur' nature of high school sports
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 6, 2011 at 12:54pm

High school sports could slowly be creeping toward mirroring the collegiate levels and that would be a bad sign for “amateur” teen athletes.The University of Texas has started its own sports network and it tried – unsuccessfully -- to gain permissio...more

All Justyce Tabor wants to do is skate
by SkaterGirl
posted September 4, 2011 at 2:32pm

Thanks to Bubbles for sending us a link to this newspaper story that appeared in the Seaside Signal. It’s an amazing interview with North West rider Justyce Tabor, her parents and other industry people about the state of the girls skate scene and the ob...more

Why can’t New Jersey boy play with the girls?
by Fair Game News
posted August 31, 2011 at 1:18pm

By Laura Pappano It’s happened again: In New Jersey, a boy wants to play high school field hockey — and people are up in arms. Hillsborough High School senior Jimmy Cao, who’s 16, wants to be part of the team, but New Jersey’s governing body has...more

Mercedes Russell is at the top of ESPN's class of 2013 rankings
by They're Playing Basketball
posted August 30, 2011 at 2:38am

Look who's on top of ESPN's class of 2013 list: Mercedes Russell of Springfield, Oregon. 1 Mercedes Russell 2 Kaela Davis 3 Diamond DeShields 4 Taya Reimer 5 Rebecca Greenwell 6 Linnae Harper 7 Kendall Cooper 8 Allisha Gray 9 Jannah Tucker 10 ...more

SIGN UP – Dick’s Sporting Goods is Giving FREE Concussion Software To Schools
by Sports Girls Play
posted August 10, 2011 at 6:00pm

Ali Krieger from the US women's soccer team in a Gaithersburg, MD Dick’s Sporting Goods store, helping spread the word about the new PACE program (Protecting Athletes through Concussion Education). Are you a parent of an athlete, coach, teacher or sc...more

[Video] Meet Paige McDuffee: 2011′s Ms. Softball USA
by Pretty Tough
posted July 26, 2011 at 2:20am

Pretty Tough interviews Paige McDuffee, the 2011 ESPN RISE Ms. Softball USA , the 2011 Gatorade Softball Player of the Year, and a 2011 Gatorade Athlete of the Year nominee. Pretty Awesome: Name: Paige McDuffee Sport: Softball Position: Pitcher High S...more

Why Title IX should (and already does) apply to high schools
by Title IX Blog
posted July 22, 2011 at 3:17pm

As we noted yesterday, a lawsuit against the Department of Education has been filed claiming that the application of the three-prong test to high schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. Here's a little more on that. And we are su...more

Lawsuit Challenges Title IX's Application to High Schools
by Title IX Blog
posted July 22, 2011 at 1:01am

The American Sports Council (formerly the College Sports Council) has sued the Department of Education in federal court, arguing that the enforcement of Title IX's three-prong test against high schools violations the U.S. Constitution's Equal Protection C...more

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