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Michael Kirby on Stereotypes and Sports
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted May 24, 2010 at 12:23pm

The former High Court judge Michael Kirby feels most comfortable in a suit and tie when he's out and about. He was therefore not too happy with the way he was treated at the hip TED (Technology, Education and Design) conference in Redfern. Speaking at the...more

Reporting from Sydney: World Conference on Women & Sport!
by Fair Game News
posted May 21, 2010 at 1:01pm

By Sarah Odell and Lindsay Rico Have you ever considered access to athletics a human right? Do you wonder why it it matters for women to play sports? And, what the heck is Netball? These are a few of the questions being put forth at the Fifth World Co...more

Notes from the 5th World Congress on Women in Sport
by One Sport Voice
posted May 21, 2010 at 12:45pm

The first full day of the 5th IWG World Conference on Women in Sport just concluded. Last night was the opening keynote in which Cathy Freeman was in attendance (see photo). A video of Freeman’s 400m race at the 2000 Sydney Olympics was shown. Freeman w...more

Billie Jean King
by Alison M. Starnes Blog
posted May 20, 2010 at 11:46pm

A good friend of mine recently came to Sacramento to watch the Sacramento Grand Prix (the women’s criterium that finished on the men’s finishing circuit of the ToC). Gail and I have discussed the changes in women’s sports as we have trained and had...more

Softball Players to the Media: “We Are Not Lesbians, Damn It”
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted May 20, 2010 at 6:13pm

I don’t want to go back over the whole “Is Elena Kagan is a lesbian because she played softball 17 years ago” conversation, but I do want to note that the whole goofy discussion has, unfortunately as I feared, tapped in the homophobia that lurks jus...more

UAE Soccer shows status of Muslim Female Athletes
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted May 19, 2010 at 4:23pm

They only recently got a grass practice field. They've come under attack on their Facebook page, and some fear telling their relatives that during their spare time they play soccer. Such are the troubles for the national women's team from the Unit...more

Testing the not-so-separate waters in Canada
by After Atalanta
posted May 17, 2010 at 12:32pm

Laura Pappano and Eileen McDonagh argued in their book, Playing with the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal in Sports, that the continued separation of the genders (for the purpose of this post we'll go with the rather simplistic construction of gender as a ...more

Kagan once played softball, which means she's gay?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted May 15, 2010 at 1:37pm

Ever since President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, questions about her sexuality have figured into the overall news narrative. Recently, news sources have begun showing a picture of Kagan playing softball, and suggesting that her affil...more

Lesbians, softball, and the Supreme Court
by After Atalanta
posted May 14, 2010 at 2:03pm

Wow, this is the kind of post that just gets me so...excited!So I missed the whole Wall Street Journal printing pics of SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan playing softball--on their front page! I did see said pics in various postings/blogs around teh internets.An...more

Supreme Court Nominee Scandal! But, then, who hasn’t played softball (and been photographed doing it)?
by Fair Game News
posted May 14, 2010 at 1:07pm

By Laura Pappano As long as we’re sharing old softball photos, here’s one of me playing at Yale in 1985. Q: What does it tell you? A: Probably not much (except that I’m a righty and played 1B). The firestorm over the photo of Elena Kagan playi...more

Who says “blue” must be male? Female baseball umpire Perry Barber wants more women making the calls.
by Fair Game News
posted May 13, 2010 at 6:55pm

By Megan Wood When umpire Perry Barber steps behind the catcher, fans often do a double-take when they glimpse the ponytail resting on the back of her uniform. Female umpires are not only rare, but practically unheard of. Barber is one of only eight ...more

In the shadow of the World Cup: ESPN covers the rape of South African soccer players
by From A Left Wing
posted May 13, 2010 at 4:02pm

ESPN has done a story on the frequency with which South African women soccer players are raped, targeted as lesbians. (Female athletes often targets for rape) It is a good thing that a media outlet with ESPN's resources decided to cover this story. But ...more

Supreme Court Nominees, Lesbians and Softball
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted May 13, 2010 at 1:11pm

When the Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch’s right wing mouthpiece) published an article yesterday about Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, they printed a picture of Kagan playing softball with the article. She is at bat....more

Cheating, violent men still sell shoes
by After Atalanta
posted May 11, 2010 at 12:53pm

...and apparel and equipment and a lifestyle.It's the last part that seems a little off when we think about--or when Christine Brennan makes us think about--Nike continuing to sponsor Tiger Woods, Ben Roethlisberger, and Kobe Bryant. Sure "image is everyt...more

You Don’t Often See This!: Sexualized Male Athletes
by One Sport Voice
posted May 4, 2010 at 2:58pm

Vanity Fair layout of World Cup players Today a student (thanks A.N.!) sent me a link to a Vanity Fair piece on the upcoming men’s soccer 2010 World Cup being held in South Africa this summer. The title of the story, The World Cup’s Stars Wear Thei...more

Should Men and Women Compete On The Basketball Court?
by Draft Day Suit
posted March 27, 2010 at 6:27pm

Are women going to be playing on men’s basketball teams? Oh dear God, I hope not. Is that harsh? Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl told Dan Patrick he thinks that women are good enough to play on men’s teams. He did say that he doesn’t think we need to...more

Sweetheart, are you in the right race?
by Alison M. Starnes Blog
posted March 22, 2010 at 10:03am

Bike racing gives you fitness right? Yes, we want to enter bike racing with fitness, but we also gain fitness along the way. It was another fun weekend of racing with the boys, then the girls… On Saturday, I raced with the men for their 50mile road ...more

Must there be a gun (okay, we mean rifle) Battle of the Sexes?
by Fair Game News
posted March 18, 2010 at 6:22pm

By Laura Pappano When Jonathan Hall captured the air-rifle individual title at the NCAA Rifle Championships, held at Texas Christian University last weekend, he realized what a big deal it was. “I had to represent the men,” said Hall, according to an...more

You can’t always win, but you can learn. Best lesson: Annika or Danica?
by Fair Game News
posted March 12, 2010 at 6:31pm

By Laura Pappano Obviously Danica Patrick struggled in her NASCAR debut. After finishing 6th in the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200, a race to “get comfortable,” she crashed at the Daytona International Speedway (finishing 35 out of 43 drivers), finished 3...more

A hodge podge of sport-related stuff
by One Sport Voice
posted March 9, 2010 at 9:22pm

This will be a random blog post and as I can’t find a common link except to apply a critical lens to each issue. Here are five interesting pieces to check out: 1. A parody Got No Game with Paul Mecurio: Race in Sports (HBO) brings to life race and ge...more

Hot Babes: So many issues, so little...
by After Atalanta
posted March 3, 2010 at 5:51pm

...energy. You thought I was going to say time, right? But no, this column from the Toronto Star highlighting the 10 hottest "babes" of the Vancouver Olympics raises so many issues and I just don't have the energy to address all the hackneyed arguments ab...more

Good Huffington Post article on the NCAA decision to pull FOTF ads
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted March 3, 2010 at 4:19pm

Here is a great article in the Huffington Post that recognizes the NCAA for pulling the FOTF ads and articulates the reasons why ads from organizations espousing controversial or extreme political views are a big mistake for the NCAA far better than I can...more

NCAA & Focus on the Family: You can and you should...
by After Atalanta
posted March 3, 2010 at 2:03pm

...be keeping pressure on the NCAA to keep itself disentangled from Focus on the Family. As noted last week, the ads on NCAA.org have been removed but there is still the possibility that television ads will run during the men's NCAA tournament on CBS whic...more

Chapter 7 of "Challenging Identities: Muslim Women In Australia" on Sports
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted March 1, 2010 at 10:06pm

Chapter 7—The Identity of the ‘Australian Muslim Woman’ in Sport and Recreation Helen McCue & Fatima Kourouche Recreation and sport in Australia remain contested areas for women and even more so for Muslim Australian women. This chapter explores t...more

Post mort for IOC: Why are the Olympics so sexist?!?
by Fair Game News
posted March 1, 2010 at 8:47pm

By Laura Pappano The closing ceremonies in Vancouver are finished, so let’s reflect: Why does a tremendous sport festival whose aim is to foster political goodwill remain so darned sexist? Events for women are typically lesser or shorter (or in the ca...more

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