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Thumbs up for WaPo
by After Atalanta
posted September 16, 2009 at 2:22pm

Every once in a while I catch WaPo's Top 10 sports photos of the week. And I have to say, I think they do a pretty good job--not just the quality of the pictures which, of course, are great--but in what they choose to photograph and display. The variety o...more

See & Hear Game Footage of the LFL Now!
by One Sport Voice
posted September 15, 2009 at 3:46pm

“Serious” game footage of “beautiful football” from the Lingerie Football League replete with (sexist) commentary of male sportscasters now available! (Scroll down about half a page to the video section and click on “Week 1: Chicago v. Miami H...more

Erin Andrews tells peep hole victimization story on Oprah
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted September 12, 2009 at 12:50am

Photo Credit: http://www.earthlingchic.com I Tivo’d Oprah today and got to see a story that I’d been waiting for awhile. ESPN reporter Erin Andrews told the queen of talk television the story of a complete invasion of privacy as a female sports rep...more

Promised Paper: Ticket Office Sexism (in detail)
by Fair Game News
posted September 11, 2009 at 4:25pm

By Laura Pappano Last spring, an op-ed published in the Christian Science Monitor — “The Price Gap Between Men and Women’s Basketball Tickets is Madness” — drew a slew of responses and comments, including some that were awfully hostile about th...more

Sprinting toward the 'big-time' business model
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 11, 2009 at 2:59pm

The movement of scholastic sports toward the college and professional sports models, in terms of media, marketing, and -- time will tell -- values, continues with the announcement in Sports Business Daily yesterday that "MSG Varsity" will launch Sept. 24 ...more

Was it unethical for the Hartford Courant to hire Geno Auriemma’s daughter?
by HoopFeed.com
posted September 10, 2009 at 6:56pm

This week the Hartford Courant women’s basketball reporter John Altavilla announced that the newspaper had hired the daughter of University of Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma to blog about the team. Altavilla and Alysa Auriemma have...more

Bud Fan Cans make students drink beer, schools say
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 10, 2009 at 2:08pm

“Show your colors!” says Bud Light. “Put your hand around a Fan Can.” The Indiana Daily Student reports that Anheuser Busch has agreed to stop selling the red and white version of their snazzy Fan Cans in the vicinity of Indiana University’s B...more

Hartford paper rethinks idea to publish Auriemma’s daughter
by Pretty Tough
posted September 10, 2009 at 12:49pm

I grew up in Connecticut where women's basketball rules. Long before other women's college teams got exposure and respect, the public TV station broadcast the UConn games. In fact, CPTV began its coverage of the university women during the 1993-94 seaso...more

First We Are Born. The Rest Is All Drag.
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted September 10, 2009 at 12:40pm

I shoulda seen this coming. Caster Semenya, the South African gold medal runner whose gender is being challenged, has had a “make-over” and her new safely feminine look is on display on the cover of a South African magazine. The accompanying text gush...more

The ‘New’ Look of Caster Semenya
by One Sport Voice
posted September 9, 2009 at 4:55pm

Much has been written about the controversy regarding the sex verification testing of Caster Semenya following the IAAF Championships in August 2009 (to read more go here, here, here, & here). Given all Semenya has endured, I can’t say I was surprise...more

Contradictions and Connections: The perils of being a strong woman athlete
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted September 8, 2009 at 11:07pm

Here is an interesting article that puts the “gender verification” challenge of South African runner, Caster Semenya, into a broader social context and discusses the outcry of support for her in South Africa in the context of nationalism, racism and a...more

Women's football makes the sports page!
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 8, 2009 at 9:12pm

Both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune found room on their sports pages recently for coverage of women's football: the Chicago Bliss, part of the newly launched Lingerie Football League. (I only wish I were making this up.) Both papers ran art...more

Bud Collins wants you kids to get off his lawn
by Women's Sports Blog
posted September 8, 2009 at 2:33pm

Usually the Times roundtable discussions get at least a few worthwhile points of view in, but yesterday's piece on how to improve tennis was a total dud, beginning with the absence of women (the Deadspin blogger was considered more valuable). But the he...more

Did the NFL just tell me I couldn’t tweet from a football game?
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 7, 2009 at 11:07pm

This was originally posted on BlogHer.com. ______________________________ A couple of weeks ago The National Football League started fining players for tweeting negative things about training camp. Then they made it clear that players were not allowed t...more

US Open: Serena Williams :”Officials should not have switched Safina’s match”
by WTA Women's Tennis
posted September 7, 2009 at 4:40pm

US Open: Serena Williams :”Officials should not have switched Safina’s match” Serena Williams felt Dinara Safina had every right to feel annoyed after U.S. Open organisers bumped the Russian off Arthur Ashe Stadium for her third-round match again...more

Women Not Big Fans of Pro Sports, and Editors Still Use Sex to Sell Reporting to Men
by The Glowing Edge
posted September 5, 2009 at 9:30pm

This infuriates me. Not the report on this study, which I found interesting, if not surprising, but the stupid decision to slap a cheesecake photo of a cheerleader at the top. It’s so damn hard to get any respect, I swear it is. Go ahead. I’ll wait...more

Stayer Magazine - history
by I Run - Therefore I Blog
posted September 5, 2009 at 2:07pm

Earlier this summer I got a phone call from a guy who wanted to sell me another subscription of Stayer Magazine. I used to subscribe, then I stopped and then I decided to go for another six months to begin with. I was also going to get the famous Stayer t...more

U.S. drops a game before roaring back In Canada Cup
by Women's Sports Blog
posted September 3, 2009 at 1:35pm

Well that was unexpected. Here I was, preparing a post about social and cultural reasons for the utter dominance of the U.S. and Canada in women's hockey (those reasons are not very clear cut, to be sure), and the Americans go and lose their opening mat...more

The Williams sisters in review
by After Atalanta
posted September 3, 2009 at 1:33pm

The Atlantic has a good piece on the Williams sisters in which writers from different media outlets contributed their thoughts on the, as one writes, most dominant pair of women in sports.The highlights include a point that I think has not been made enoug...more

Sports reporters & gambling: The big picture
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 2, 2009 at 11:09pm

Our Center for Sports Journalism survey of sports reporters, published in the International Journal of Sport Communication, has gotten attention recently because of our finding that 4 in 10 reporters told us they gambled on sports -- and one in 20 told us...more

Venus seeks new hitting partner
by Women's Sports Blog
posted September 1, 2009 at 3:06pm

Position Available: Employment opportunity with woman who has won multiple Slams and the respect they command. Applicant must be grown man who dresses like an adult and not a frat boy. Communication abilities a must, including support of employer in i...more

Basketball games as religious events: A really bad marketing plan?
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted August 31, 2009 at 4:05pm

While reading the Women’s Hoop Blog recently, I found my way to this thoughtful article in Full Court Press, the women’s basketball journal. The article, written by Lee Michaelson, publisher of Full Court Press, raises some really interesting question...more

US Open players, coaches and family warned about tweeting
by WTA Women's Tennis
posted August 28, 2009 at 6:38pm

US Open players, coaches and family warned about tweeting U.S. Open players, coaches, agents, family members and tournament staff. are being told to be careful about what they post on their Twitter accounts. Signs are being posted in the players’ lo...more

Candice Works Out
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted August 27, 2009 at 9:35pm

Former Stanford star and current WNBA star Candice Wiggins has a new training video. Yay. I guess you could say it is more of a commercial. (If you can't view it at Nike.com, view it here on Facebook). Nike has renewed its partnership with the WNBA. Yay. ...more

Notes from an alienated fan: Why I want a feminist, anti-homophobic WPS & a more progressive, anti-nationalist/pro-migrant MLS
by From A Left Wing
posted August 27, 2009 at 8:44pm

OK. I know a lot of you read that headline and either rolled your eyes, or muttered "dream on, sister."I've been involved in a discussion on Big Soccer about Dan Loney's article, "Endless Summer". He opens with a reference to my post about the Galaxy/Bar...more

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