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Blogs, Balls, Babes and Morality
by One Sport Voice
posted June 8, 2010 at 7:45pm

My Blogs With Balls Experience: A Summary If you follow this blog you might of known I went to Chicago last weekend to attend the Blog With Balls 3.0 (BWB) Conference, and was invited to be part of the “You’ve Gotta Fight For Your Right…to Blog?:...more

Why the apathy about women's sports coverage?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted June 8, 2010 at 4:46pm

In a column published this morning, longtime journalist Eric Deggens addresses the lack of attention paid to a new study that empirically verifies what women's sports fans have suspected: Despite Title IX and the soaring numbers of girls and women partici...more

Research on homophobia & heterosexism featured
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted June 8, 2010 at 4:45pm

Research Assistant Austin Stair Calhoun and Director Mary Jo Kane discuss cutting-edge research on gender, digital media, and homophobia and heterosexism in collegiate athletics being conducted at The Tucker Center, as part of the University of Minnesota ...more

Our Game Magazine published by women soccer players
by Pretty Tough
posted June 7, 2010 at 9:01pm

A new women’s soccer pub, Our Game Magazine, was launched with some fanfare this week. Founded by Khaled El-Ahmad, Our Game is a women’s soccer magazine created by current and past players for players and fans all around the world. With the mission ...more

Study on television coverage reveals that very little is revealed
by After Atalanta
posted June 7, 2010 at 3:50pm

This is old news (well a week; so ancient in blogosphere terms). But last week the Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California released a report written by USC professor Dr. Michael Messner (Messner blogged about the study at the Huf...more

KICK IT UP! launches at FIFA World Cup
by Pretty Tough
posted June 6, 2010 at 4:06pm

Soccer (or football as it’s known around the globe) is the world’s most popular sport, and Global Girl Media is using the largest international soccer event to help young women find their voices. The non-profit org’s pilot project KICK IT UP! has ...more

One Sport Voice goes to Blogs With Balls 3.0
by One Sport Voice
posted June 4, 2010 at 6:44pm

Today I’m heading to Chicago to attend the Blogs With Balls 3.0 Conference and be part of the “You Gotta Fight for Your Right…to Blog: An Ethical and Legal Primer on Sport Media in 2010″ panel. I’m on this panel with some very well known sports ...more

Study finds that women athletes are absent from TV news
by Athletic Women Blog
posted June 4, 2010 at 6:43pm

You could have knocked me over with a feather when I learned that local television news hardly covers women's athletics. But of course I jest. This I already knew—sans 20-year study and all. I must confess, however, to being caught unawares by one co...more

Stephanie Gilmore scores the cover of TransWorld's August 2010 Issue
by Dyla Magazine - Women's Action Sports Coalition
posted June 3, 2010 at 5:52pm

Make sure you pick up the August Issue of TransWorld Surf and check out Rip Curl's very own Stephanie Gilmore owning the cover. Steph is the first ever female surfer to make the cover of TransWorld SURF, congrats Steph! ...more

New report on gender in televised sports
by One Sport Voice
posted June 2, 2010 at 7:00pm

Two colleagues, Mike Messner (USC) and Cheryl Cooky (Purdue), just finished the latest installment of a longitudinal study GENDER IN TELEVISED SPORTS: NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS SHOWS, 1989-2009. The report can downloaded for free here. The results are depress...more

It's a man's racing world
by After Atalanta
posted June 1, 2010 at 9:50pm

I saw a few articles this past weekend about female auto racers. Note that I didn't really read them because I am not all that into auto racing. But the headlines were similar in that they noted the increased presence of women at Indy: there were four thi...more

Why milk?
by Athletic Women Blog
posted June 1, 2010 at 8:10pm

The benefits women—female athletes in particular—reap from strength training are well-established. A new study shows, however, that drinking milk after lifting weights enhances and accelerates them. Thus, as if it needed confirmation, we see now that...more

WNBA marketing to lesbians? Who would have thought?
by Swish Appeal
posted May 31, 2010 at 5:17pm

Many fans in the present WNBA era complain that the WNBA doesn't do enough to market to their lesbian fans. If you followed newspapers from a decade ago, however, that would clearly not have been the case. BusinessWeek reported in its 2001 article "Gro...more

Miley Cyrus rocks the WNBA
by Pretty Tough
posted May 30, 2010 at 4:31pm

When you think WNBA you might not immediately think “Hannah Montana” star Miley Cyrus but the league is using her song “Can’t Be Tamed” as a promotional theme for a new TV spot. What do you think? ...more

The Big Ten: Who's that guy?
by After Atalanta
posted May 29, 2010 at 2:09pm

So the Big Ten is being the Big Tease these days after announcing, this past winter, it's thinking about adding another team to the conference. Note that the conference already has 11 teams which sets off my OCD tendencies a little and, of course, that ad...more

Softball facility improvement forthcoming in NC
by Title IX Blog
posted May 26, 2010 at 5:01pm

It does not appear that we blogged about the complaint filed with OCR in 2009 out of Richmond County in North Carolina. But the allegations of disparities in the treatment of women's athletics, specifically softball, are currently being investigated. And ...more

Puma does the World Cup ad better, with African footballers and fans, Gnarls Barkley and Kehinde Wiley
by From A Left Wing
posted May 26, 2010 at 4:55pm

Contrast the above (and its soundtrack) with Nike's bloated ad, seasoned with the most tired forms of machismo and sexism. Here there are even a few girls and women, presented not as sex objects or football failures, but as fans and players. This one, fur...more

Michael Kirby on Stereotypes and Sports
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted May 24, 2010 at 12:23pm

The former High Court judge Michael Kirby feels most comfortable in a suit and tie when he's out and about. He was therefore not too happy with the way he was treated at the hip TED (Technology, Education and Design) conference in Redfern. Speaking at the...more

Preps sports reporters beat differ in values
by Sports, Media & Society
posted May 23, 2010 at 9:38pm

A recently published survey by the Curley Center has found that sports reporters differ on the way they see the role of sports coverage and on their views of ethical norms on the job -- based on beat. Although reporters who cover high school sports are mo...more

For Nike women are only good for laughs
by From A Left Wing
posted May 23, 2010 at 7:39pm

People seem to like Alejandro Iñárritu's ad for Nike's 2010 World Cup campaign. I don't. Women appear in it only as sex objects and jokes. Below is a survey of the three moments in this ad in which women figure:1. Sex objects in the background of a fant...more

Crystal Langhorne’s Got Milk
by Pretty Tough
posted May 23, 2010 at 7:36pm

WNBA player Crystal Langhorne is the latest model-athlete to stump for the “Body by Milk” campaign. Crystal has known basketball success at every level, including on the international stage. As a member of the 2007 U21 USA Basketball Team, she won...more

2012 Olympic Mascots Unveiled – What Were They Thinking?
by Sports Girls Play
posted May 21, 2010 at 9:45pm

First off, I have to say I LOVE THE OLYMPICS and everything Olympic, however, the art department that has been hired for the 2012 London Olympics has got me a bit worried. It isn’t bad enough that the logo for the games looks like something out of the 8...more

Notes from the 5th World Congress on Women in Sport
by One Sport Voice
posted May 21, 2010 at 12:45pm

The first full day of the 5th IWG World Conference on Women in Sport just concluded. Last night was the opening keynote in which Cathy Freeman was in attendance (see photo). A video of Freeman’s 400m race at the 2000 Sydney Olympics was shown. Freeman w...more

Supreme Court Nominees, Lesbians and Softball
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted May 13, 2010 at 1:11pm

When the Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch’s right wing mouthpiece) published an article yesterday about Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, they printed a picture of Kagan playing softball with the article. She is at bat....more

Embracing women’s hoops 3.0
by Blue Star Basketball
posted May 12, 2010 at 2:11pm

Maybe there’s something about basketball’s shoulder seasons — before the college scene tips off in the fall, and the time between the Final Four and the start of the WNBA campaign in the spring — that rouses up “culture wars issues” in the wom...more

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