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Empowerment Through Sport Leadership Conference – Los Angeles 2013
by Pretty Tough
posted October 21, 2013 at 8:21pm

Empowerment Through Sport, founded by two-time Olympic gold medalist Angela Hucles, is an organization providing educational and motivational conferences, workshops, and speaking engagements for girls, their parents, and their coaches. On Saturday, Nove...more

Real Men Wear Pink: The NFL and Breast Cancer Awareness Month
by The Rabbit Hole
posted October 14, 2013 at 8:22pm

Photo from 1045theteam.comIt's October, which means it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  I wasn't going to write a breast cancer post this year but I turned on the television this morning and there was Michael Strahan showing some pink football glove...more

It’s Pinktober – Female Athletes Unite Against Breast Cancer
by Pretty Tough
posted October 3, 2013 at 9:10am

Organizations everywhere are kicking off month-long breast cancer awareness programs. At least half of you know someone who has or had breast cancer. Whether a mom,  aunt, grandmother, neighbor, or family friend, breast cancer strikes over 200,000&n...;more

Brandi Chastain Reenacts Iconic Sports Bra Celebration For Charity
by A Glam Slam
posted July 26, 2013 at 9:40am

A simple black sports bra became an iconic piece of sports fashion during the 1999 Women’s World Cup Final. Brandi Chastain led the United States to victory, after she scored the game-winning goal in a penalty shootout against China. Chastain celebr...more

U.S. Women Ski Jumpers eyeing Sochi 2014; aim to raise $100,000 through crowdfunding, annual benefit
by anngaff
posted July 3, 2013 at 8:34pm

PARK CITY, Utah — U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping Team members aim to raise $100,000 at an annual gala benefit July 18 in Park City, which will serve as the kick-off to their most significant competition season ever. Over the next seven months, te...more

Champagne on hold amid growing Brazilian protests
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted July 1, 2013 at 9:53pm

Tweet To illustrate how tone-deaf FIFA has truly become in the wake of general mass protests in Brazil, consider this: The unveiling of a special label by Taittinger, the official bubbly provider of next summer’s World Cup, and of the just-complet...more

Six Teenage Girls Swimming the English Channel for Charity
by Pretty Tough
posted June 29, 2013 at 12:29am

What are you doing during your summer vacation? For six English girls, summer means training to swim the English Channel to raise money for charity.  They are 6GirlsNoBuoys, and they’ve been practicing in pools to gain strength and in Hyd...more

CBC Special – Women’s Canoeing Should Have Place in Olympics
by WomenCANIntl
posted June 27, 2013 at 8:56pm

Canoeing has one of the poorest gender equality ratios of any Summer Olympic sport, and although female kayakers are allowed to compete in both the sprint and slalom disciplines, female canoeists are kept out of the Games altogether. CBC Sports Special: ...more

BAWSI Service Immersion Opportunity for Graduating Female Athletes
by carabyrd
posted June 5, 2013 at 8:34pm

Bay Area Women’s Sports Initiative is searching for graduating student-athletes who are positive change makers!...more

Annual Girls on the Run 5K
by Byline to Finish Line
posted June 4, 2013 at 12:08pm

It was at about the halfway point of the 5K where the first water stop was stationed. Runners took small plastic cups of water on the humid morning and disposed of them as runners do — by throwing them on the ground confident in the fact that volunt...more

LIFT THE BAN ON WOMEN'S CANOEING AT THE OLYMPICS
by WomenCANIntl
posted May 7, 2013 at 11:44pm

Help us reach 5,000 signatures to press the President of the International Canoe Federation, Mr. Jose Perurena, and the International Olympic Committee to lift the ban on women's canoeing at the Olympics. Please sign and share our petition:  https:...more

Sportscene's Take: Academic report shuns Rogge’s “major boost for gender equality” at London 2012
by WomenCANIntl
posted April 7, 2013 at 9:36pm

Sportscene's Nicolaas Harding breaks down the University of Torontos report - which analysed whether London 2012 was in fact a model for gender equality in sport - for Olympic Canoe/Kayak. Results are, despite more female athletes competing in e...more

Larry Cain - Olympic Canoeing Gold Medalist on Women's Canoe and Olympic Gender Inequality
by WomenCANIntl
posted April 4, 2013 at 9:12pm

Olympic Gold Medalist Canoeist Larry Cain speaks out on gender inequality in Olympic Canoeing "I'll probably ruffle a few feathers with this post, but it needs to be said. It's time for women to race canoe in the Olympics and continuing to ignore gende...more

University of Toronto Report Reveals Inequalities at London 2012
by WomenCANIntl
posted April 4, 2013 at 7:48pm

The London 2012 Olympics - A Gender Equality Audit. From the Centre for Sport Policy Studies at the University of Toronto, Peter Donnelly and Michele K. Donnelly analysed gender equality in sport using the case of the 2012 London Olympics.   WOMEN'...more

Cyndi Elias, Kickin' Cancer's Butt
by TJ's Turf
posted April 2, 2013 at 12:42pm

I first read heard about Cyndi Elias last October when I read her story in this "Turning Point" column in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. At that point, she was training for the 2012 NYC Marathon. She was one of the many registered runners who tra...more

Nike RED: Saving Lives with Soccer and Shoelaces
by The Rabbit Hole
posted April 2, 2013 at 8:55am

What is the point of research sitting in some dusty old journal that isn't accessible to most of the public? Nothing, in my opinion; hence, the following is a shameless plug for my own research.  This post touches on a couple of points from of a rece...more

Olympic Canoeing Survives IOC Axe - But is Gender Equity on the ICF Agenda?
by WomenCANIntl
posted March 16, 2013 at 10:19pm

In a recent article the International Canoe Federation (ICF) stated it was “disappointed” at its shock appearance among the sports in the firing line (the "Bottom 5") last month when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was considering wh...more

The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum
by DiscGolf4Women
posted March 5, 2013 at 3:15pm

Article Courtesy from http://www.PDGA.com  What could be a better way to start an amazing year of women’s disc golf than with a tournament focused around a national women’s holiday? First time tournament director, Myrriah Gomez, h...more

Women's Canoe - Long Overdue: An In-Depth Analysis as to Why Women's Canoe Isn't In the Olympics
by WomenCANIntl
posted March 2, 2013 at 1:45pm

“There is no excuse for perpetuating the blatant sexism that persists at the Games.Not only do women compete in only 21 sports while men take part in 27, but the program of events in most sports has fewer events for women. At the Olympics women do k...more

US Rugby Player of the Decade Launches Crowdsourcing Campaign to Fund 2014 Olympic Bobsledding Bid
by stephaniemp
posted February 20, 2013 at 8:50am

Three-time rugby World Cup competitor Phaidra Knight turns to web to fuel non-conventional path to Sochi...more

#Love4Relief: V-Day Gifts to Benefit Sandy Relief
by Pretty Tough
posted February 12, 2013 at 8:30am

As the relief work continues for those communities hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey, I am delighted to introduce you to a fantastic way for you to continue to support those efforts, the #Love4Relief Valentine’s Day...more

Kerri Walsh-Jennings Wants You to Get Really Uncomfortable
by anngaff
posted February 7, 2013 at 11:42am

Kerri Walsh-Jennings. Photos courtesy of WIN for KC “It’s so powerful to sit here in this room and realize that each and everyone of us are so similar,” a teary-eyed Kerri Walsh-Jennings told the over 1400 people in attendance at the ...more

The Biggest Choosers? Individual choice and the bio-power of the 'obesity epidemic'
by The Rabbit Hole
posted January 11, 2013 at 9:31am

In his seminal text Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault introduced the notion of disciplinary confinement as a form of power in society.  This way of using power has been gradually evolving since the eighteenth century when power became less perso...more

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