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The problem with HS football (it’s not just concussions)
by Fair Game News
posted October 13, 2010 at 6:04pm

By Laura Pappano I had to wince at a Birmingham News pre-season high school football analysis: Quick! Go pay $6 to see Hueytown high school quarterback Jameis Winston because “come 2012 at a major BCS school [it]will be around $50 and that’s not even...more

Jackie Kasburg: Football star and homecoming queen
by Pretty Tough
posted October 13, 2010 at 5:12pm

High school senior Jackie Kasburg of Chippewa, Ohio made some history last Friday. Wearing her custom-made pink game day cleats, she made her varsity football debut, converting three point-after-touchdowns kicks. Then, to top off the night, she was nam...more

Student-athletes and anti-bullying efforts
by After Atalanta
posted October 13, 2010 at 5:09pm

Given the homophobia that has--historically--swirled around sport, as well as the recent spate of high-profile anti-gay bullying incidents around the country, this article was very welcome.At University of Michigan student-athletes have stepped up to supp...more

Kids These Days… They Aren’t All Bad
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 13, 2010 at 12:07pm

Every Sunday morning I start out the day reading the paper. It’s my favorite way to start/end the week. This Sunday I read an article about a local high school football team that had me in tears. Normally I can’t stand the little high-schoolers, but t...more

The AWK Contrarian NCAA Top 56 Poll v6.0 – Who is hanging their hat on a win they shouldn’t be?
by All White Kit
posted October 13, 2010 at 11:52am

I’ve added an extra thing to look at in this version of the poll, the best uRPI ranked team a team has beaten in 2010. The question of the day is, “Who hasn’t beaten a Top 50 uRPI team?”. Seven teams in the latest ranking in fact. The Unlucky 7...more

DRAFTED at 5? How to get kids sport skills (without burning out).
by Fair Game News
posted October 9, 2010 at 9:46pm

By Katie Culver We parents are obsessed with starting children in competitive sports as early as possible. How else to get them to the World Cup, Wimbledon, the Olympics or the NFL, NBA, WNBA, NHL? If our son is going pro in soccer, my husband and I jok...more

College Coach Win-Loss Numbers and Yet Another Metric
by Swish Appeal
posted October 9, 2010 at 9:33pm

If you haven't guessed by now, I love metrics. Linear metrics, multiplicative metrics, any kind of metric there is. I've always hated the kind of argument that goes "well, player X was better than player Y because she had more heart". How am I suppo...more

NCAA Soccer Review – 10/09/10 – Dunn downs Virginia in extra time
by All White Kit
posted October 9, 2010 at 9:19pm

Crystal Dunn Came Through In The Clutch Again for UNC Against Virginia Virginia 0 – 1 (Dunn 99′) North Carolina [aet] [Attendance: 1983] Still just a freshman, Crystal Dunn showed why she’s one of the best players in the country after her dramat...more

Student-athletes and domestic violence
by After Atalanta
posted October 9, 2010 at 3:47pm

Saw a very good article today by Jerome Solomon in the Houston Chronicle about the spate of alleged and actual violence perpetrated by male student-athletes against women. It was inspired by the allegations against Baylor student and basketball player Lac...more

NCAA Soccer – 13 Matches That Matter for 10/08/10
by All White Kit
posted October 8, 2010 at 3:23pm

< p> Don't Worry, Roughly the Same Number of People Show Up At McAlister for the Trojans (All times listed are Eastern.) USC vs Stanford (10:00 at the Los Angeles Coliseum) Quibble with their style of play if you must, but you certainly can’t f...more

Indiana scheduling case decided on summary judgment
by Title IX Blog
posted October 8, 2010 at 1:29pm

Yesterday, federal district court judge William T. Lawrence of the Southern District of Indiana dismissed claims against the Indiana High School Athletic Association and area high schools that the scheduling girls' basketball fewer Friday and Saturday nig...more

NSSA Southwest explorer #3 sees four perfect 10s
by Dyla Magazine - Women's Action Sports Coalition
posted October 8, 2010 at 1:26pm

Jake Marshall, Griffin Colapinto, Kulia Doherty : photo NSSA NSSA Southwest explorer #3 National Scholastic Surfing Assn. Goldenwest Street, Huntington Beach 2 - 3 October 2010 NSSA Southwest explorer #3 goes off in scattered sandbar peaks The Southwe...more

Big 12 coaches select Baylor as preseason favorite, Texas A&M;second
by HoopFeed.com
posted October 7, 2010 at 2:18pm

Baylor takes the top spot in preseason voting as the favorite to win the 2010-11 Big 12 women’s basketball regular season title. A vote of the league’s head coaches put the Lady Bears in first for the third time in conference history. Baylor receive...more

NCAA Soccer – Four matches that matter for 10/07/10
by All White Kit
posted October 7, 2010 at 1:11pm

Maryland's Ashley Grove Has Been A Revelation For The Terps in 2010 Boston College vs Maryland (7:00) The war for the ACC rages on in earnest in Chestnut Hill for a pair of squads who tasted defeat for the first time on Sunday. The Eagles will no dou...more

Ogwumike, Pedersen on the Wooden list
by Left Coast Hoops
posted October 6, 2010 at 6:34pm

The women’s Wooden Award released their first watch list of the preseason Tuesday and it includes four West Coast players, including Stanford’s Nneka Ogwumike and Kayla Pedersen, UCLA’s Jasmine Dixon and Gonzaga’s Courtney Vandersloot. Stanford...more

Strike IX profiles the 1999 Providence College Baseball Team
by Title IX Blog
posted October 6, 2010 at 2:35pm

When author Paul Lonardo contacted me about his new book Strike IX, I worried I might be in for another misplaced Title-IX-is-the-enemy screed from an advocate for men's sports. But after reading a copy of the book, which Paul kindly sent me, I learned t...more

NCAA Soccer Review 10/02-10/03 – Stanford Undisputed At The Top
by All White Kit
posted October 5, 2010 at 4:22pm

Two Teams Entered...One Team Tried to Win (Thanks for the pic Julie!) Stanford 2 (Press 78′, Taylor 79′) – 0 Santa Clara [Attendance: 1201] Santa Clara needn’t have shown up to their traditional local derby with Stanford such was the differenc...more

What and who counts: Another defense of Title IX
by After Atalanta
posted October 5, 2010 at 12:23pm

I have not been surprised by the renewed calls to abolish/reform Title IX in the wake of University of California Berkeley's announcement that it is cutting five intercollegiate sports.Yes, it's lousy that this happened. But California is not in good fina...more

Georgia Tech Women's Basketball: An Introduction
by Swish Appeal
posted October 4, 2010 at 3:46pm

Georgia Tech women's basketball is probably the best kept secret in Atlanta. Sports loyalties in Georgia seem to be divided between Georgia Tech in Atlanta and Georgia in the rest of the state. Even so the real rivalry centers around football, the "Cl...more

Transgender Student-Athlete Think Tank Report Released
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted October 4, 2010 at 2:13pm

I am really proud to announce the public release of the report from the October, 2009 Transgender Student-Athlete Think Tank that the Women’s Sports Foundation and the National Center for Lesbian Rights co-sponsored. Helen Carroll, the director of the ...more

Oriard: Bringing Academics Back to College Athletes
by Sports, Media & Society
posted October 2, 2010 at 11:10pm

The business of college football has changed dramatically in recent decades, and one scholar believes new changes are needed to re-establish the integrity of the relationship between sport and education. Michael Oriard, former University of Notre Dame sta...more

Reaction: Cuts To Cal Athletics Department - California Golden Blogs
by Swish Appeal
posted September 29, 2010 at 2:50pm

Reaction: Cuts To Cal Athletics Department - California Golden Blogs Norcalnick of SBN's California Golden Blogs weighs in on the University of California's announcement that they will eliminate baseball, men's and women's gymnastics, and women's lacros...more

UC Berkeley Cuts Five Teams
by Title IX Blog
posted September 28, 2010 at 10:29pm

As Kris noted recently, the University of California, Berkeley athletic department has been considering eliminating sports as a cost-reduction measure. So it is sadly no surprise that the Chancellor has announced that baseball, men's and women's gymnasti...more

School lunch subsidies render Catholic schools subject to Title IX
by Title IX Blog
posted September 28, 2010 at 10:13pm

Congress, whose powers are limited to those enumerated in the Constitution, passed Title IX under its power to spend for the general welfare. Consequently, the statute's ban on sex discrimination only applies to those schools that receive federal funding...more

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