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Lifetime Lines Up Figure Skating Reality Series
by Pretty Tough
posted January 28, 2012 at 2:51am

Lifetime’s successful Dance Moms franchise is not only getting a spinoff with “Dance Moms: Miami,” but, according to THR ,  its also getting a sister show: “Ice Moms.“  With L.A.-based  Collins Avenue, the prod...more

Pantene Pro-V Teams Up With Olympic Swimmer Natalie Coughlin
by A Glam Slam
posted January 28, 2012 at 2:33am

Michael Phelps joined the P&G family in November when he became the global face of the Head & Shoulders brand. Fellow U.S. Olympic swimmer, Natalie Coughlin, will also go for gold in London with healthy hair in mind. At a press conference in NYC y...more

To tweet or not to tweet?
by They're Playing Basketball
posted January 27, 2012 at 1:15am

North Carolina Coach Sylvia Hatchell banned twitter use for the Tar Heels. That distraction eliminated, the team has won two in a row.I understand where Hatchell is coming from. I cringe at some of the things I see young people put on twitter.Do you think...more

Banning athletes from Twitter... good or bad strategy?
by HoopFeed.com
posted January 27, 2012 at 1:07am

A commenter on an article about North Carolina women’s basketball ban of Twitter usage provides a counter view: Sylvia Hatchell bans UNC women’s basketball team’s Twitter use By Michael Lananna | The Daily Tar Heel ...more

NSCAA Convention Presentation: 5 Secrets to Successful Soccer Websites
by Soccer Science
posted January 23, 2012 at 11:22pm

What would the NSCAA Convention be without the added excitement (and pressure) of speaking? For the second year in a row, my good friend and peer Ryan Knapp and I presented together. Ryan and I met in 2009 at Tweet – Blowing the Whistle on Social...more

45,000 Demand Female Boxers the Right to Choose Their Dress in the Ring
by Pretty Tough
posted January 16, 2012 at 2:30pm

Campaign on Change.org calls on Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA) to drop recommendation that female boxers should wear skirts LONDON – As female boxing gets ready to debut at the Olympics, nearly 45,000 people have joined a campaign ...more

Olympic Trials: NBC’s Bad Business Decision
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted January 15, 2012 at 5:26pm

Image: David Phillip/AP In case you have been living under a rock, the Olympic Trials marathons for both men and women were held yesterday. For what appears like the first time ever, there were more very good performances than there were spots availab...more

Lolo Jones covers Outside magazine in a unique fashion
by A Glam Slam
posted January 11, 2012 at 2:16pm

It will be a year of redemption for Lolo Jones, after a devastating fall in the women’s 100m hurdles final at the Beijing Games in 2008. In the time since, she’s been working towards a gold medal finish at the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games in Lo...more

Video – Get a Behind the Scenes Look at Gina Carano’s Film Debut
by Wombat Sports
posted January 10, 2012 at 3:39pm

Courtesy Relativity Media It has been two years in the making and in just a few weeks, we will get to see Gina Carano in her major motion picture debut in “Haywire”. With guys like Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, and Michael Douglas across ...more

Topps Olympic Trading Cards
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted January 9, 2012 at 1:56am

A few days ago you may have heard that Topps will be issuing a 2012 Olympic trading card set. Michael Phelps, Hope Solo, Shawn Johnson and other athletes who are seeking to represent the U.S. in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London will be part of a new ca...more

Watch the “Does Sex Sell Women’s Sport?” Panel
by One Sport Voice
posted January 5, 2012 at 1:36am

In September 2011 I participated in the espnW Summit and was invited to sit on a panel. Myself, Sue Hovey (ESPN), Sonja Henning (NIKE), Heather MItts (US Women’s Soccer Team), and Jenn Brown (ESPN) discussed “Does Sex Sells Women’s Sport...more

The great Super Bowl commercial sell-out
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted January 5, 2012 at 12:13am

Tweet If you were looking for some place to invest that extra $4 million you found between the sofa cushions, it’s too late to plunk it down for a Super Bowl commercial. All the ad space is gone, and the above figure is for a precious 60-second me...more

Best of 2011: Issues in women’s sports
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted December 30, 2011 at 9:25pm

This week I’m bringing back some of my favorite posts from the year, and especially those that generated some good conversation. Issue pieces in sports always seem to do the trick, and these were no different. In June I posted a 10-part series I ca...more

Larry Scott: The big win in PAC 12 - Big 10 scheduling agreement is with Olympic sports and women's sports
by anngaff
posted December 30, 2011 at 11:18am

On Wednesday, the PAC-12 and the Big Ten announced an innovative scheduling agreement that will result in teams from each conference playing each other extensively in most sports as early as next year. At the press conference, PAC-12 commissioner L...more

ESPN’s Launch Party for “The Body Issue”
by Natasha Hastings
posted December 29, 2011 at 9:03am

Natasha Hastings attends ESPN the Magazine’s 3rd annual Body Issue party at Highline Stages on October 6, 2011 in New York City. Natasha, the only Track & Field star to grace the pages this year was honored to represent her sport among other...more

Best of 2011: Sportswriters for the ages
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted December 29, 2011 at 9:00am

This week I’m reposting some of my favorite posts from this year, and one of the subjects I’ve been focusing on is the dizzying, ever-changing world of sports media. The trick is not to do too much navel-gazing, one of the hazards of the profe...more

Soccer by Searchlight: looking for the future in the past
by From A Left Wing
posted December 26, 2011 at 12:00pm

It's a little known fact that the earliest night matches were women's games. Amazing how far we've moved in the wrong direction. In 1920 enough people were excited by the idea of watching women play that they packed the terraces. The media thought the m...more

Think Fresh: Enough Merry (girl or boy) Christmas
by Fair Game News
posted December 19, 2011 at 3:49pm

By Katie Culver I work – really hard – at avoiding gender stereotypes with kids so I decided to tick through what we had lined up for Christmas this year: there was the Wii for my son and an American Girl doll for my daughter. Err – I m...more

Strikeforce Extends Deal with Showtime
by Wombat Sports
posted December 15, 2011 at 8:24pm

There will be eight more Strikeforce cards in 2012. In a press release Thursday, Zuffa, the parent company of Strikeforce, announced they have reach an extension with ShoSports that will also provide more coverage of preliminary bouts on Showtime ...more

Putting paralympic athletes in the spotlight
by Sports, Media & Society
posted December 10, 2011 at 10:03am

The mainstream media are still falling behind in covering disability sports and the network of resources for athletes with disability is far from perfect, but a new blog carries a promise of making things better. Athletes First: Sporting Abilities and Op...more

MLB Imposes Dress Code, Restricts Skirt Lengths For Media
by Pretty Tough
posted December 10, 2011 at 1:56am

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about sports organizations mandating dress codes. Most recently, the Amateur International Boxing Association and Badminton World Federation made news for requiring female athletes to wear skirts during competition. ...more

Appropriate and Professional Manner? MLB Establishes Dress Code For Members Of The Media
by A Glam Slam
posted December 7, 2011 at 11:28pm

Dress codes in professional sports are nothing new. The NBA implemented fashion-related regulations back in 2005, creating specific guidelines for players’ off-court attire. Coaches have also fallen victim to the sports style police. MLB manager Joe...more

NBC is no friend to track and field
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted December 2, 2011 at 5:09pm

I’ve never hid my opinion of NBC’s coverage of the Olympics and track and field. I think it’s remarkably poor, jingoistic and antiquated. (Note: many of the announcers are quite good, but TV is a producer’s medium and that’...more

Olympic Swimmers Debut Speedo Fastskin3 for London Games
by A Glam Slam
posted December 2, 2011 at 9:24am

With each new day, companies are rolling out the fashions that we can expect to see come July, during the 2012 Olympic Games. The latest launch comes from the swimming category. The revolutionary new Speedo FASTSKIN3, unveiled yesterday, is the swimwear t...more

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