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Dancing with the footall star: Mirror ball for Hines Ward
by Draft Day Suit
posted May 26, 2011 at 12:26am

With all the hysteria in Pittsburgh today, you’d think Steelers receiver Hines Ward had just hoisted this trophy once again: Nope. The trophy behind the hoopla is this one. And Ward won it for dancing. That’s Ward and his dancing partner, Kym Jo...more

Inspecting Pac-12 Network's impact on women's basketball & Big East negotiations
by Swish Appeal
posted May 5, 2011 at 1:20pm

Back in March, Jeff Rabjohns of the Indianapolis Star wrote an article describing not only how the Big Ten Network is "having a cascading effect throughout the college landscape" for women's basketball exposure, but also how television executives are seei...more

Storm prepares to announce 2011 television schedule
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted May 5, 2011 at 11:19am

The Storm will team with KONG-TV, again, broadcasting at least nine games on the network. Coupled with five combined games on ESPN2 and ABC, 14 of the defending champion Storm's 34 regular-season games will be aired -- a franchise high. "This year there'...more

More on monumental Pac-12 deal
by They're Playing Basketball
posted May 5, 2011 at 11:16am

ESPN's official release on yesterday's deal, and their plan to show Pac-12 sports "across multiple entities."Reactions to what is probably the biggest agreement for a college conference. ...more

Larry Scott talks TV deal and women’s hoops
by Left Coast Hoops
posted May 5, 2011 at 2:37am

Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott, in announcing the league’s new mega-TV deal with Fox and ESPN worth a reported $3 billion, talked about how the new contract will benefit women’s basketball. For starters, there will be a Pac-12 network. Scott indicat...more

WTS Podcast - Wrestling Champion Mickie James
by MarQFPR
posted April 28, 2011 at 6:32pm

Some people might not consider it a sport, but pro-wrestling takes a lot of physical ability and toughness to entertain fans week in and week out. Total Non-Stop Action's Knockout women's champion Mickie James took some time out of her busy schedule to...more

Sports-based stories almost always inspire, as does this one
by Swish Appeal
posted April 28, 2011 at 4:00pm

Sports-based stories almost always inspire, as does this one, because their subjects often demonstrate sacrifice and hard work at a level most of us can only aspire to. There is some special drive — some secret genetic ingredient that an athlete lik...more

Lauren Froderman: Living the Dream
by anngaff
posted April 25, 2011 at 10:20am

At the Gatorade G Series FIT launch party in Beverly Hills, I caught up with 2010 So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) winner Lauren Froderman who talked about what she's been up to since her win, how SYTYCD changed her life and why she tried out in the fi...more

Sarah Meurle on Lilla TV
by SkaterGirl
posted April 21, 2011 at 11:40am

Bellows team rider and all round Malmo ripper, Sarah Meurle has landed herself a fun little feature on a Swedish TV show called Lilla Sportspegeln, which is a kids show all about different sports. The episode she is in is obviously all about skateboarding...more

Legendary Obstacle Course Needs the Best Female Athletes to Conquer it
by MarQFPR
posted April 13, 2011 at 1:17am

It has been called the most difficult obstacle course in the world, and only 3 men have ever conquered it. Now there are seeking female athletes to conquer Mt. Midoriyama. G4’s hit show “American Ninja Warriors” is looking for male and...more

Brianna Glenn believes America got it WRONG
by My so-called FABULOUS life: Brianna Glenn
posted April 8, 2011 at 8:32pm

My sport is decided on the field of competition. We all gather at the oval office, slip on our spikes, and put our best against the best of our competitors. At the end of the day, whoever performed the best is the winner. It's that simple. It is a tal...more

Would more women in MMA cause mainstream shift?
by Cheryl Ragsdale
posted April 8, 2011 at 3:39pm

How do you take MMA - a fringe sport - mainstream? Jonny Bones Jones, the current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, is pulling MMA fighters in front of mainstream audiences by appearing with Kirstie Alley and Jay Leno on the Tonight Show. Much is expected...more

Viewership for NCAA women's championship game up by eight percent, tournament ratings also rose
by HoopFeed.com
posted April 7, 2011 at 5:40pm

ESPN aired all 63 games of the 2011 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship during the month of March and the beginning of April. Statement from ESPN on viewership for the 2011 NCAA DI tournament: The 2011 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball ...more

Video - WWE Tough Enough Contestant Michelle Deighton Circa 2004
by MarQFPR
posted April 6, 2011 at 1:39am

With the return of the WWE's "Tough Enough" reality show last night, five female and nine men were thrust into the world of sports entertainment. (The WWE is no longer uses the term "wrestling" - go figure.) They took a huge beating this week and lea...more

Women’s MMA – Who’s Your Daddy?
by Cheryl Ragsdale
posted April 5, 2011 at 10:46am

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world ~ Archimedes MMA fans everywhere are digesting the news that Zuffa, parent company of  the UFC, bought Strikeforce, the UFC’s biggest competitor. Bl...more

College softball on TV
by Alan's College Softball Blog
posted March 29, 2011 at 8:00pm

The ESPN family of networks will be televising a number of college softball games in the coming weeks, as part of its larger portfolio of springtime collegiate athletics. The schedule is heavily, though not exclusively, oriented toward the SEC. There are...more

First look at NBC's Wonder Woman (prepare yourself)
by Athletic Women Blog
posted March 21, 2011 at 3:08pm

It's not as though in popular culture girls and women have symbols of strength to spare. Perhaps if they did what David E. Kelley and NBC are doing to Wonder Woman wouldn't be quite as hurtful. The new Wonder Woman costume, as it will be worn by the actre...more

Karen Jonz on Brazilian Idol
by SkaterGirl
posted March 20, 2011 at 6:49pm

Over at the Mahfia blog, we’ve just learnt something rather amazing! “Team rider Karen Jonz has been killin it softly in her motherland of Brazil and was recently on Brazilian IDOL! Yup, it’s exactly what you think, the Brasilian version of America...more

The wider lens on televised women’s basketball
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted March 8, 2011 at 2:04pm

Those lamenting the supposed invisibility of women’s sports on television should read every word of this story in Sunday’s Indianapolis Star by Jeff Rabjohns about the wealth of women’s basketball games available on the Big Ten Network. The cable ou...more

Women Talk Sports Radio Show - Champion Boxer, Promoter, Global Boxing VP and now Reality Show Host Maureen Shea
by anngaff
posted March 6, 2011 at 6:56pm

Female boxing star Maureen Shea of the Bronx, New York will host a landmark reality show in Mexico, with filming beginning later this month in Chiapas, Mexico. The show, entitled "Todas Contra Mexico", will pit a team of female pro boxers from Mexico agai...more

Maureen Shea to Host Female Boxing Reality Show
by anngaff
posted February 28, 2011 at 11:30pm

NEW YORK (March 1, 2011, via release) - Female boxing star Maureen Shea of the Bronx, New York will host a landmark reality show in Mexico, with filming beginning later this month in Chiapas, Mexico. The show, entitled "Todas Contra Mexico", will pit a ...more

2011 NBA All-Star Game Commercial To Feature Sue Bird, Kevin Durant, and Dwight Howard
by Swish Appeal
posted February 18, 2011 at 12:50am

2011 NBA All-Star Game Commercial To Feature Sue Bird, Kevin Durant, and Dwight Howard The latest WNBA promo will be aired during the 2011 NBA All-Star game on Sunday and features Sue Bird, Kevin Durant, and Dwight Howard. You can see the commercial an...more

NBC has its Wonder Woman
by Athletic Women Blog
posted February 17, 2011 at 1:50pm

The rest of us I'm not so sure about. Late yesterday it was announced that Adrianne Palicki will star in NBC's Wonder Woman pilot. I was right about one thing, Kelley and NBC didn't waste any time. Indeed, now it seems they were in too much of a hurr...more

1975: Immaculata beats Maryland in first nationally televised women's game
by Swish Appeal
posted February 6, 2011 at 2:28pm

On January 26, 1975 the Mighty Macs of Immaculata defeated the Maryland Terrapins 80-48 in College Park, Maryland at the Cole Field House in the first nationally televised women's basketball game in the United States. It was show on the Mizlou T...more

What counts as news
by After Atalanta
posted February 3, 2011 at 7:02pm

Almost paid no attention to this article not having any investment in the WBB teams from either Missouri State or Creighton. But here is the headline and first graf: Women's Basketball Game at Missouri State to be TelevisedThe Missouri Valley Conference ...more

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