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"ESPN: Pardon the Interruption co-host Tony Kornheiser suspended two weeks for Hannah Storm comments"
by Swish Appeal
posted February 24, 2010 at 1:50pm

"ESPN: Pardon the Interruption co-host Tony Kornheiser suspended two weeks for Hannah Storm comments" In case you didn't hear about what got Tony Kornheiser suspended, here are his comments about ESPN broadcaster Hannah Storm (via Fanhouse): "Hannah St...more

Should ESPN’s Kornheiser be fired?
by One Sport Voice
posted February 24, 2010 at 12:43pm

View This Poll Amidst the Olympic fanfare, last week ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser made comments about the attire of colleague Hannah Storm, ESPN SportsCenter co-anchor, on his Washington radio show. Kornheiser, opined that Storm was wearing a “ho...more

A legal victory for women in sports
by Womenstake
posted February 19, 2010 at 8:41pm

by Dina Lassow, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center The Ninth Circuit recently issued a great opinion reversing a district court decision that would have greatly complicated Title IX athletics cases by imposing new requirements on athletes w...more

NBC: World's best "girls" give it their all in the women's downhill
by Sports, Media & Society
posted February 19, 2010 at 3:23pm

As Julia Mancuso whipped around the gates during the women’s downhill at the Vancouver Olympics, the NBC announcers noted the icy and difficult conditions. “She likes a course that is rough and bumpy,” said analyst Christin Cooper. “She says that ...more

NBC: World's best "girls" give it their all in the women's downhill
by Sports, Media & Society
posted February 18, 2010 at 9:18pm

As Julia Mancuso whipped around the gates during the women’s downhill at the Vancouver Olympics, the NBC announcers noted the icy and difficult conditions. “She likes a course that is rough and bumpy,” said analyst Christin Cooper. “She says that ...more

Domestic violence and media: How portrayal and reporting of crime changes when athletes are involved
by Women Undefined
posted February 18, 2010 at 11:19am

I woke up this morning to this headline: "Oregon Football: LaMichael James arrested" So what happened? Why was he arrested? Oregon running back LaMichael James was booked into Lane County Jail on Wednesday morning on domestic violence charges, contin...more

Answer to DeFord: Why we're likely not to notice a women's basketball team excel
by Sports, Media & Society
posted February 17, 2010 at 9:09pm

NPR commentator Frank DeFord today asked why women in individual sports more often get widespread public attention (and favorable media coverage) than do women in team sports. Deford contrasted the recent hype around Olympian Lindsay Vonn, tennis star Ser...more

Luge: "I would rather die than be called a woman"
by After Atalanta
posted February 17, 2010 at 12:42pm

That's the message I am getting after the start of the men's single luge competition was moved farther down the track in an attempt to temper the high speeds that seemed to result in the death of Georgian luger, Nodar Kumaritashvili,* during a training ru...more

Olympic Ski Jumping: You're outraged now?
by After Atalanta
posted February 15, 2010 at 9:21pm

Initially when I read this column at the Huffington Post by Michele Morris about the story of the missing female ski jumpers in Vancouver, I had another one of those where have you been moments. It's a good column that outlines the whole contentious histo...more

Sarcasm over, SI: time for real pics of female athletes
by Fair Game News
posted February 13, 2010 at 6:06pm

By Laura Pappano OK, I’ve learned something valuable: My effort at a tongue-in-cheek fan letter to SI for their “un-coverage” of female athletes was not clearly tongue-in-cheek to many readers on this site or the Women Talk Sports network site. Fi...more

NOT the same: Vonn v. Kitt Sports Illustrated covers
by One Sport Voice
posted February 13, 2010 at 12:29pm

Sports Illustrated Covers of Olympic Skiers In rebuttal to the “Vonn Watch” Sports Illlustrated cover blog post I made, many people commented and pointed out that A.J. Kitt was similarly posed in 1992 and no one called it sexual. I don&rsqu...;more

"Politics is culture is politics": Mayer, Social Media, and the Narcissistic Cult of Self
by Swish Appeal
posted February 11, 2010 at 7:12pm

I don't actually care about John Mayer one way or the other -- anybody trying this hard to get attention should simply be ignored because any publicity is good publicity, right? Of course, I found his controversial comments abhorrent, but sadly not a ...more

Good thing she knows how to pose in a bathing suit
by After Atalanta
posted February 11, 2010 at 7:07pm

Because if Lindsey Vonn had a plan to gain Michael Phelps-like fame by winning many medals and becoming a highly decorated American skier, she might have to fall back on her modeling career.I refrained from commenting on the little upsurge in controversy ...more

Thank you, Sports Illustrated!!!!!!!!!!! (From a women’s sports fan)
by Fair Game News
posted February 11, 2010 at 12:31pm

By Laura Pappano As a Sports Illustrated subscriber, I just want to offer a big “Thank You” for all the recent coverage of Lindsey Vonn – or should I say “un”-coverage? If crazy feminists got all in a wad about last week’s cover photo of V...more

Super Bowl 44: Sexism and Misogyny in Society 101
by Women Undefined
posted February 8, 2010 at 3:31pm

Hey Women's Studies majors, no need to take those extra sociology courses - If you watched last night's Super Bowl and the accompanying advertisements, you're an expert in sexism and misogyny! You can now say with confidence and pride: " I aced Sexism an...more

Strikeforce is Going to Have to Shell Out More Dough to Find Someone to Fight Cyborg
by anngaff
posted February 7, 2010 at 2:47am

I just found out after perusing some posts on BloodyElbow.com that Marloes Coenen only made $2,000 getting pummeled by Cyborg at Strikeforce Miami. I don't know what she would have made if she had beaten Cyborg but it certainly wasn't going to be 6 figu...more

Vonn Watch: Sports Illustrated Cover is Predictable
by One Sport Voice
posted February 5, 2010 at 3:44pm

Sports Illustrated February 8, 2010 Cover I’ve thought to myself and predicted out loud that leading up to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics that we would see a LOT of Lindsey Vonn in the media. Vonn is first a GREAT athlete, but she also represents n...more

The SI cover debate
by Byline to Finish Line
posted February 5, 2010 at 11:22am

What does a picture say? If it’s the Sports Illustrated cover of it’s Winter Olympics preview featuring Lindsey Vonn, quite a bit. A brief post critiquing the choice of photo for the cover by Nicole M. LaVoi, a sports psychology and sports sociolog...more

Headscarf Bans: Morally Wrong but also counterproductive
by Women's Sports Blog
posted February 1, 2010 at 12:58pm

Let's, with great sadness, bracket the notion that human beings should be free to express their religious beliefs in public, no matter whether other people disagree with them or not. That idea is a non-starter in many European nations right now because of...more

Sexism Alive & Well, Even in Paintball
by One Sport Voice
posted February 1, 2010 at 12:08am

This will be short post, as you’ve come to learn, sometimes at One Sport Voice pictures tell the story better than I could blog. One of my graduate students (Thanks AN!) found this picture while she was playing paintball this weekend. (Does one “pla...more

And We Wonder Why Some Girls Aren’t Physically Active?
by One Sport Voice
posted January 29, 2010 at 12:09pm

This morning a colleague sent me this article from ESPN.com about another ban on head scarves for Muslim female athletes. When I see this and other stories, it makes me recommit to the work I do at The Tucker Center. It is well documented that female...more

On the eve of the Olympics let's remember...
by After Atalanta
posted January 24, 2010 at 7:01pm

...the female ski jumpers who will not be there, of course, because the IOC's decision to keep ski jumping the only male-only winter sport kept being upheld by varying governing and judicial bodies. I was thinking yesterday when skiing in Vermont about wa...more

Sepp Blatter's moronic statement about Indian Women's Football
by From A Left Wing
posted January 24, 2010 at 12:35pm

I just came across this tidbit in an interview with Sepp Blatter about FIFA's "Win with India in India" program (initiated in 2007): FIFA: Women's football is not very developed in India. Do you feel it is possible to change that situation? SP: Wom...more

IOC shows more ignorance about gender
by Women's Sports Blog
posted January 23, 2010 at 12:27pm

Not content with resting on its laurels in deciding that women can't ski jump, it has declared that it will avoid further disasters like the humiliation and mistreatment of Caster Semenya...by embracing a medical model of intersex. Yeah, that'll fix a s...more

The beauty queen triathlete
by Byline to Finish Line
posted January 21, 2010 at 5:28pm

Normally the phrase “beauty pageant” and the word “triathlon” live in two separate spheres. One is controversial for its portrayal of the stereotypical feminine image and the other is about endurance and strength and peeing in your wetsuit, thin...more

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