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Giro Day 3 and 4
by Alison M. Starnes Blog
posted July 6, 2010 at 6:20pm

Stage 3. Caerano S. Marco to Biadene. 17k. Time Trial. With 121 riders still in the race at this point, and with 1-2 minute increments between riders, it was almost a full 2.5 hours of sending riders out of the gate, one at a time, on the 17k point to po...more

Halftime: No time to quit - South Africa, HIV and how the World Cup has hidden an epidemic.
by Women Undefined
posted July 5, 2010 at 6:07pm

Jamele Hill of ESPN writes one of the most poignent pieces on the HIV crisis in South Africa. With the World Cup as the backdrop and considering the continents economic and health crises , Hill shows how the world's biggest spectacle has worked to hide th...more

The World Throws Up: On how not to read soccer as symptom
by From A Left Wing
posted July 5, 2010 at 4:00pm

Chéri Samba, Le Monde Vomissant (The World Throws Up), 2004 If recent writing on the 2010 World Cup and (the idea of) Africa is leaving you feel bloated, you must read Supriya Nair's marvelous blog, Treason Stratagems & Spoils. In her July 3rd po...more

Afghan Girls Soccer
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted July 4, 2010 at 1:35pm

by Carol Erickson Under the Taliban rule in the mid 1990s, most Afghan children had no opportunity to play sports. So in the summer of 2004, after the fall of the Taliban, Awista Ayub, who had grown up in Afghanistan, brought eight Afghan girls to the Un...more

Giro Day 2
by Alison M. Starnes Blog
posted July 3, 2010 at 4:03pm

Sacile to Riese Pio X Giro Donne. Stage 2. 135k. 98 degrees and 60 percent humidity. It was hot. Race time was 3:22. I drank 7 bottles. Did I mention it was hot? Mamma mia, it was hot. I tried to convince some of the racers to just do on...more

Giro Day 1
by Alison M. Starnes Blog
posted July 2, 2010 at 6:49pm

Slovenia. I never imagined I would be in Solvenia. I had to research the country because I did not know a great deal about it. It borders four countries. Hungary. Italy. Austria. Croatia. It is home to only 2.06 million people. One of its bor...more

Following up on Eudy Simelane, Global Girl Media, and the subject of rape and homophobia in South Africa
by From A Left Wing
posted June 29, 2010 at 8:16pm

Young women in Soweto produced two video segments about homophobia, rape, and the situation of black lesbians in South Africa. These segments were produced through Global Girl Media, a project which directs young women in producing media about the issues ...more

Giro Donne.
by Alison M. Starnes Blog
posted June 29, 2010 at 6:28pm

When I packed my bags to go to Tulsa 4 weeks ago, I wasn’t thinking that this whirlwind trip would end with a trip to Italy. From Tulsa to Quebec to Minnesota to Bend to Milan!? Yes. I will be doing the Giro Donne. The women’s Giro d’Italia s...more

World Championships in Caracas, Venezuela
by Jessica Mendoza's Blog
posted June 29, 2010 at 6:22pm

Buenos Dias todos! Hello from South America! What a great feeling to be down here representing the U-S-A with the 16 best countries from all over the world. This is my THIRD World Championships (they are every four years, I know makes me the old lady ...more

Jennie Finch: Day 6 & 7 in Caracas & eating Venezuelan style
by Jennie Finch
posted June 29, 2010 at 2:28pm

We played Australia yesterday, we won 9-2. It was a big victory for us as we are collecting wins for the top seed in our pool. We were happy to make it to our game on time... our bus suddenly was lost for about 20min. We made it and with plenty of warm...more

Green surf event Billabong Pro at Jeffreys Bay
by Dyla Magazine - Women's Action Sports Coalition
posted June 27, 2010 at 9:21pm

Kelly Slater : photo ASP/Cestari Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay ASP World Tour event #4 Supertubes Jeffreys Bay, South Africa 15 - 25 July 2010 Billabong South Africa Marketing and Sales Manager, Peter Nicholson, and Kerry Wright from Cleaner Climate chat ...more

Sad story from South Africa
by Women's Sports Blog
posted June 26, 2010 at 4:01pm

Via Graham Hays, the news that LSU soccer player Kellie Murphy has lost her sister in a car accident at the World Cup. Murphy was slightly injured in the accident and her brother is in critical condition. Medical care in a foreign country and trying t...more

Afghan women footballers dream of World Cup
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted June 24, 2010 at 4:02pm

By Daphne Benoit (AFP) – KABUL — On a yellowing football pitch, next to concrete walls and razor wire, World Cup fever is running high for Afghan women footballers who dream of scoring for their war-torn country. Training sessions may be inter...more

Jennie Finch: Day #2 here in Venezuela
by Jennie Finch
posted June 24, 2010 at 3:17pm

WOW! What a night! We just got back from opening ceremonies here in Venezuela! All I can say is WOW! It was a spectacular show! The stadium is beautiful its surrounded by the gorgeous green mountains here. It was packed with excited prideful anxious V...more

Four reasons you should be watching the World Cup
by Draft Day Suit
posted June 23, 2010 at 4:45pm

While most people probably know the World Cup is going on, there’s still millions of Americans who haven’t tuned in, including sports fans. As a lifelong player and fan, I’m personally tired of the same old “soccer is boring” arguments and the c...more

Photos: Women rowing team practicing in Zayandeh Rud, Isfahan
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted June 21, 2010 at 1:01pm

Following photos by Hossein Baharloo show the women rowing team practicing on the beautiful Zayandeh Rud river in the historic city of Isfahan in the shadows of the ancient Sio-seh-pol bridge. Zayandeh Rud (life giver river) is the largest river on t...more

Palestinian women take over the raceway
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted June 19, 2010 at 8:58pm

Washington – Female racers are becoming more common on Palestinian race tracks as motorsports grows in popularity, Ma’an News Agency reported Monday. As the Palestine Motorsports Federation and British Consulate General finished two days of trainin...more

"I Represent All Muslim Women": An interview by Charlie Wyett with Aravane Rezai
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted June 18, 2010 at 1:39pm

THE strawberries are being cut, the bottles of Pimms are being unloaded at the All England Club. And some blokes are thinking how hilarious it would be to shout 'C'mon Tim' ahead of a player serving on Centre Court. Yet you really know when Wimbledon is a...more

Iranian girls set for youth games after ban
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted June 17, 2010 at 3:14pm

TEHRAN - Iranian female footballers will take part in the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore this August after world football authorities lifted a ban on the wearing of the Islamic head veil, an Iranian official said on Tuesday. "I think this is one of the...more

Relentless NASS Girlzilla 2010
by SkaterGirl
posted June 16, 2010 at 3:22pm

The Summer is upon us and so is the 3rd Annual Girls Skate Comp “Girlzilla” at Relentless NASS Festival. There’s already some serious buzz building about the comp as there will be 40 riders including top UK girls like Lucy Adams and Lois Pendlebury ...more

PS on soccer balls
by After Atalanta
posted June 14, 2010 at 6:56pm

So according to Adidas, the men's World Cup balls are being manufactured in southern China. There is a minimum wage guarantee of 103 pounds with many workers earning more than that--sometimes double. And as I reported (and as you can see in the video from...more

Other World Cup stuff
by After Atalanta
posted June 13, 2010 at 7:34pm

As in other than scores or some kind of analysis of yesterday's England-USA match-up, which I have to admit, I did not watch. I harbor some resentment about the lack of excitement the Women's World Cup garners so I don't get too excited about the Men's Wo...more

South Africa/Mexico: A Game of Nerve
by From A Left Wing
posted June 11, 2010 at 4:43pm

There is not much for me to say about today's match: it has already been said, not even an hour after the match's conclusion. We even broke Twitter, twice the whole network seized up - too many of us telling each other all about it. It was a game of two h...more

Money (Net)ball: How an Aussie Women’s Pro League is Making $$ (and what to learn from what they did)
by Fair Game News
posted June 11, 2010 at 12:16am

By Laura Pappano The abrupt folding of the St. Louis Athletica, forcing the Women’s Professional Soccer league to mid-season reshuffle its schedule, was the latest reminder of a nagging problem: Making money in women’s pro sports. (Or merely staying ...more

No One Remembers Second...
by amber2jewel
posted June 10, 2010 at 8:00pm

Amidst the USC-Reggie Bush/O.J. Mayo scandals and the sanctions announced by the NCAA today, the Memphis-Derrick Rose scandal, Marion Jones and her steroids scandal, and yes, the fossil that is the MLB steroids scandal, I’ve been doing a l...more

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