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Live from Storm media day
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted May 19, 2009 at 2:12am
Storm PG Sue Bird exited her team's locker rooms at the practice facility belting, "Where's my escort?" officially kicking off Storm Media Day 2009. It was a little intimidating as a throng of players followed her, most new faces, all wearing their home w...more
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News-y things: Title IX, WPS, cycling & more
by After Atalanta
posted May 19, 2009 at 12:05am
I don't know what my problem is with finding things to blog about lately. But I am headed to s different country later this week so hopefully that will provide some information.It's not as if there has not been things going on. After all, the women's coll...more
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Live from Storm media day
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted May 18, 2009 at 7:20pm
Storm PG Sue Bird exited her team's locker rooms at the practice facility belting, "Where's my escort?" officially kicking off Storm Media Day 2009. It was a little intimidating as a throng of players followed her, most new faces, all wearing their home w...more
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Breaking into the Sports Management World
by Athletic Women Blog
posted May 18, 2009 at 12:25pm
Note: Today you are blessed with a stay of sorts, a guest blogger. Enjoy!—Rob
In the past decade, women in sports jobs have increased their prominence in the sports world, slowly overtaking various obstacles to get where they are at today. Many sports...more
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Money And Media Coverage: A Corollary
by Women's Sports Blog
posted May 18, 2009 at 12:02pm
Those who read WSB over at Women Talk Sports may have noticed I've gotten into a comment discussion on my post about cruddy golf media coverage. We are arguing about how the situation might best be remedied. My interlocutor: we need to band together a...more
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Bloggers and ethical decision-making
by Sports, Media & Society
posted May 17, 2009 at 12:42pm
A recent post on Eye on Sports Media outlines the response of a local paper (the Athens Banner Herald) and that of a blogger who learned about the DUI arrest of a local personality who provides play-by-play and analysis for UGA sports teams. The blogger r...more
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Sexism & Horse Racing: The Preakness
by One Sport Voice
posted May 16, 2009 at 6:47pm
I’m watching the pre-race coverage of the Preakness horse race right now on NBC. I’ve been following the media coverage of this race all week. Drama and debate rage on “should fillies race with stallions” due to the recent success of filly Rach...more
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WNBA: Expect Great
by Pretty Tough
posted May 15, 2009 at 11:06am
Be the first to see the two new ad spots for the WNBA’s Expect Great campaign for the 2009 season.The ads will begin to air nationally this weekend, but you can check them out now. Visit WNBA.com for more details.
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Selling sex does NOT attract men to women’s sport
by One Sport Voice
posted May 14, 2009 at 5:32pm
I just saw a short video as a result of a Twitter from the WNBA. The power of social media at work for one “opt-in” follower! The video is by Mr. Alex Chambers, a self-proclaimed avid WNBA fan who also Twitters, and blogs. Yes, I said “Mr”!
I...more
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Venus Gets It; Serena Doesn't
by Women's Sports Blog
posted May 14, 2009 at 11:13am
Via the indispensable Women Who Serve, go check out this piece about Serena Williams' constant whining over being 'forced' to play tournaments despite being injured.
It hits the nail on the head in terms of the monetary issue (a $75,000 fine is chump ...more
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NYT is all about international sports this week
by After Atalanta
posted May 14, 2009 at 10:50am
So first there was the profile of Carla Suarez-Navarro, a lesser-known Spanish tennis player and now I see an article about team handball and why it should come to the US.These efforts by the NYT to diversify its sports coverage is quite refreshing, espec...more
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Does sex sell women’s sport?
by One Sport Voice
posted May 13, 2009 at 5:58pm
I’ve been wanting to write a blog about this topic for awhile and a recent interview given by my colleague and the Director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport Professor Mary Jo Kane on the Edge of Sports Radio with Dave Zirin ...more
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Twitter for the racing crowd
by Horsepower & Heels
posted May 13, 2009 at 4:32pm
One of my favorite social networking tools is Twitter. I've been using it for a couple of years now, and although I first thought it was rather odd and didn't "get it", I've realized the myriad of different usages for the service, and how they can be cust...more
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Covering international tennis
by After Atalanta
posted May 13, 2009 at 10:27am
A frequent complaint of mine is how American-centric the American coverage of professional tennis remains despite the international appeal of many top players. And with the French Open coming up soon, soon, soon (I board a plane in a week for France to go...more
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Golf Pix: 10 out of 200
by Women's Sports Blog
posted May 12, 2009 at 11:26am
That's exactly how many photos there were of the Kingsmill LPGA tournament on Yahoo Sports this morning. The other 190 photos were of the men's Players Championship. Three out of the ten they did include featured Natalie Gulbis, who tied for seventh b...more
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Michelle Obama invited to WPS game
by After Atalanta
posted May 11, 2009 at 11:26am
The Washington Freedom has invited Michelle Obama and her daughters to a game this season. No word on whether or not the female members of the first family will attend, but Freedom players, especially Abby Wambach, are excited by the possibility. They bel...more
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Blogs and the 'sports conversation'
by Sports, Media & Society
posted May 8, 2009 at 2:28pm
In an interview with RealClearSports, columnist Jason Whitlock discusses his characterization of Selena Roberts' new book on A-Rod as a "long-winded blog"-- short on verifiable reporting and long on rumor. (His column about Robert's book questions her rep...more
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ESPN pays WPS some attention
by After Atalanta
posted May 7, 2009 at 10:19am
I was pleased to see (well, pleased in that, I'm-not-quite-sure-how-I-feel-about-this way) that ESPN online had a column about the WPS. I have not gone back into the ESPN archives to view their previous coverage (I don't even know if there is any). But th...more
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Rudo y Cursi: From A Left Wing goes to the Movies
by From A Left Wing
posted May 6, 2009 at 10:31am
Rudo y Cursi, Carlos Cuarón's comedy starring Gael Garcia Bernal & Diego Luna is as much about soccer as Footballer's Wives. The film is less a sports film than a parody of fútbol culture - of everything that the game produces around itself. But wh...more
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The good and bad of non-access to athletes
by Sports, Media & Society
posted May 5, 2009 at 9:13pm
Blogger-turned-ESPN writer Bill Simmons points out the diminishing role of sports journalists in his latest column, suggesting that in the age of Facebook, the blogosphere and Twitter, athletes no longer need the media. "This isn't a good thing or a bad t...more
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