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Balancing Marathon Training and Tailgate Season
by Run Girl Run
posted August 17, 2011 at 2:07pm

As you all know, I love me a good tailgate and with football season only a few weeks away, it's time to start figuring out how I'm going to balance half marathon training and tailgating. Spending six hours every Saturday at a tailgate and following tha...more

3 Ways To Keep Your Studs Studly
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted August 16, 2011 at 7:39pm

source Coaches rarely talk about these players, perhaps for fear of stating the obvious. But all of us have a player on our team that is good enough to carry the lion’s share of points. The opponents know it, they game plan for her. Our teams kno...more

A College Track Hall of Fame?
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 11, 2011 at 12:31am

The other day I was reading a piece at Grantland.com about the new inductions at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Chuck Klosterman writes about how various halls of fame may inhabit physical space, but their most important part, the meaning we attach to me...more

Interview with the author of She Was Once A Runner
by Lize Brittin: Training on Empty
posted August 11, 2011 at 12:28am

I have mentioned the blog She Was Once A Runner to quite a few people. While there are many similarities between what I went through and what the author did, our stories are not identical, obviously. From the comments she receives on her blog, it beco...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

Soccer Star Ali Krieger Joins Fans at Concussion Education Event
by Sports Girls Play
posted August 5, 2011 at 2:17pm

< p> US Women’s soccer player Ali Krieger signs autographs for fans during the PACE - Protecting Athletes through Concussion Education - event at Dick's Sporting Goods, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, in Gaithersburg, MD. Krieger and Dick’s Sporting Goo...more

USA U19 Women Win 2011 FIBA World Championship Gold Medal
by SLAM Online -W
posted August 1, 2011 at 12:46pm

Via USA Basketball: PUERTO MONTT, Chile (July 31, 2011) – Everything came together at the right time for the 2011 USA Basketball Women’s U19 World Championship Team (7-1) and it wasted no time in jumping out to a 25-15 lead and rolling to a 69-46...more

Title IX and Transgender Students at Single-Sex Colleges
by Title IX Blog
posted August 1, 2011 at 1:17am

Inside Higher Ed recently had an article about transgender students at single-sex colleges. Like this piece in the Boston Globe a few years ago, the article addresses the increasingly common practice of re-issuing diplomas to reflect the new names and ge...more

Title IX and community colleges
by Title IX Blog
posted July 28, 2011 at 12:34pm

The NYT ran a very interesting article last week about the application of and compliance with Title IX at the country's community colleges. Community colleges face unique challenges when trying to comply with the law. It's non-traditional student body, of...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

ASU refuses to release athlete from National Letter of Intent; she will sit out a year
by They're Playing Basketball
posted July 21, 2011 at 3:13pm

Karina Alofaituli asked out of her National Letter of intent with Arizona State after Coach Charli Turner-Thorne said she would sit out a year. But ASU denied the Newbury Park, CA forward, so she will have to sit out a year beginning this fall, as she att...more

Second half of college basketball recruiting season about to kick off
by They're Playing Basketball
posted July 20, 2011 at 4:25pm

Here comes the Michael T White Showtime Championships this weekend in the Los Angeles area. Bracket, featuring some of my favorite regular suspects from this tournament in years past. Other MTW events around the country.One more tip sheet from the Nike Su...more

Texas A&M; Rumored to (Still) be Interested in Moving to SEC
by Swish Appeal
posted July 19, 2011 at 10:33am

Texas A&M;Rumored to (Still) be Interested in Moving to SEC During the original rumor barrage that saw two Big 12 teams leave the conference, all the talk went to the football world, tv contracts and super-conference potential. Now that the conference...more

If You Want To Build Your Team Chemistry, Then Hit The Road!
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted July 18, 2011 at 2:48pm

source Road trips. Ugh! Booking hotel rooms, scheduling tournaments, figuring out where to get some healthy and tasty food. Sometimes road trips can be a pain in the neck. But…they can also be amazing ways for your team to come together in amaz...more

Knight Commission Seeking Grant Proposals
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted July 16, 2011 at 12:20pm

Author: NACWAA The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics is seeking proposals for grant-funded research on policy in intercollegiate athletics. The deadline for submission is August 5, 2011. For a copy of the full RFP, p...more

Let's Hear it for the Girls: 2011 Gatorade High School Female Athletes of the Year
by anngaff
posted July 15, 2011 at 3:52pm

LOS ANGELES (July 12, 2011) - Some of the biggest names in high school and professional sports convened in Los Angeles Tuesday night as Gatorade honored the top prep male and female athletes with the ninth annual Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year a...more

How to Keep From Striking Out as a Softball Parent
by Softball Performance Blog
posted July 6, 2011 at 5:19pm

How to Keep From Striking Out as a Softball Parent Guest Post by Janis Meredith Hitting that bright yellow softball is not as easy as it looks. Any softball player will tell you that there is more to hitting that just swinging away. With proper mech...more

Injuries and imagery in women’s sports - what's the message?
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted July 6, 2011 at 4:51pm

(This is a topic I wanted to examine in my recent series “Women’s Sports Without Illusions,” especially after a perceptive reader brought it up. I pledged to address it in a new phase of my inquiry that continues on this blog and elsewhere. So here...more

Coach's Corner: What is your team doing this summer to help the community?
by Hoop Thoughts
posted July 6, 2011 at 9:33am

One of the primary lessons I learned from Coach Dale Brown is that "college sports was simply a vehicle to accomplish more important things in life." It was commonplace at LSU for our team to visit children hospitals on road trips. Coach Brown would a...more

Preventing Cheerleading Injuries
by Sports Girls Play
posted July 5, 2011 at 10:42pm

As the debate as to whether cheerleading is a sport continues and as cheerleading statistically continues to be considered one of the more dangerous high school sports, it is important to note that many cheerleading injuries can be prevented. STOP Sport...more

July recruiting period begins Wednesday
by They're Playing Basketball
posted July 5, 2011 at 2:54pm

For college coaches, the fireworks begin in two days, when the July recruiting period commences. Here are the major tournaments that will kick off the month:On the West coast, there is the End of the Trail Tournament in Oregon City.The Big State Flava Jam...more

Columnist Criticizes Sex Discrimination in State Championship Site
by Title IX Blog
posted July 3, 2011 at 12:24pm

I'm glad to see sports columnist Steve Hanlon calling the Indiana High School Athletic Association on the apparent sex discrimination in its chosen locations for the girls' and boys' state basketball championships. Criticizing a recent IHSAA memo siting ...more

The second tale: Gender identity in intercollegiate athletics
by After Atalanta
posted June 28, 2011 at 5:41pm

I have been somewhat lax in my posting recently, and I know I promised three tales of gender identity and discrimination a while back. My first tale was related to the Women's World Cup and the accusations against Equatorial Guinea based on--apparently--t...more

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