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Slam W: Women’s Basketball and a Unique Double Standard
by SLAM Online -W
posted September 21, 2011 at 7:45pm

by Ben York / @bjyork People know me as a pretty easy-going dude. I tend to go with the flow and am about as laid-back a person as you’ll ever meet. I do a lot of volunteering, have been a Big Brother for almost a decade, and have been involved with ma...more

Our Cat Named Princess, What Was I Thinking?
by CPS8910
posted September 16, 2011 at 3:29pm

Our cat is named Princess. My family has had the pleasure of having one cat named Princess for the last 10 years. How she was named is something that I find a little humorous. You have to understand where I was in my life when she came to our home....more

Is Red Bull ignoring women?
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted September 15, 2011 at 12:18pm

Easkey Britton for Red Bulletin 2010 It cracks me up that Red Bull sponsor so many extreme or action sports events. Strikes me the last thing you need as you pump your heart full of adrenaline is a few shots of that stuff swirling around in the mix. A l...more

No X Games Vert – The Alliance Respond
by SkaterGirl
posted September 14, 2011 at 1:17pm

It may have crossed your mind that when the X Games recently decided to cancel the womens vert event, this went against everything that The Alliance had campaigned so long and hard (and successfully) for a few years back? Had all their work been undone? W...more

14-year-old girl asks "Why aren't there any girls in the NHL video game?" and gets her answer
by The Rabbit Hole
posted September 14, 2011 at 10:45am

This week the Globe and Mail published an article about 14 year old Lexi Peters and the significant change she has created for women in sports...and gaming. Hockey is attracting more female players, but when young skaters like Lexi turned to the leading...more

Where are the women football broadcasters?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 13, 2011 at 5:18pm

Familiar voices just delivered the first full week of the NFL regular season to massive television audiences. And they were all male voices in broadcast booths. So why are there no women doing play-by-play in the NFL and so few in college football?It’s ...more

Vote, Run, Lead
by RunLikeAGirl
posted September 10, 2011 at 10:16am

what politics and sports have in common......more

Girls Sports vs Pinkification
by CPS8910
posted September 1, 2011 at 1:55pm

jocks. Now days, when little girls first start their sports, you can find all sorts of little girly pink items that help identify them as girl athletes. How many of you have seen things like pink baseball bats, pink soccer balls, pink basketballs, pink b...more

Turkish volleyball player verbally and physically attacked in Istanbul bus‏ for wearing shorts
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted August 31, 2011 at 1:25pm

Nineteen-year-old Turkish volleyball player, Nurcan İbrahimoğlu, has confessed that she was verbally and physically attacked in Istanbul last July 28th inside a bus because she was wearing basketball shorts. Following this, on 13th of August, A gr...more

Women's Sports Sell Without Sexual Objectification
by Sports, Media & Society
posted August 27, 2011 at 6:32pm

This summer, I experienced one of those typical 21st century moments in my apartment in Serbia when talking on Skype while simultaneously chatting on Facebook and watching the Women’s Soccer World Cup on TV. My computer activities stopped when I vaguely...more

Women's Basketball League formed in New Orleans in 1894
by LostCentury
posted August 25, 2011 at 4:21pm

1894 Newspaper article announces the formation of a women's basketball league in New Orleans, Louisiana....more

"Playing like a girl" - A call to men
by The Rabbit Hole
posted August 24, 2011 at 6:18pm

I was playing some social club tennis today and came home to immediately blog about my experience. I have played at this particular tennis club since I was 14 years old. I am a 4.5 singles player and 5.0 doubles player and for non-tennis aficionados all y...more

New York World report of the First Women's Intercollegiate Basketball Game in 1896
by LostCentury
posted August 20, 2011 at 3:39pm

College Girls Play Ball in Bloomers, article and illustraiton from The World: New York, August 16, 1896, about the first women's intercollegiate baseketball game between Stanford and California, Berkeley, in San Francisco....more

Utah Pioneer of Women’s College Basketball Opens Campus Athletic Fields to Women in 1897
by LostCentury
posted August 17, 2011 at 1:06am

Lucile Hewett of Utah pioneered women's college basketball and led a movement to open campus athletic fields to women. Article and images from The Salt Lake Herald, May 17, 1897...more

Hoosier Hysteria in 1897 - The Women's Basketball Tournament in Ft. Wayne, Indiana
by LostCentury
posted August 12, 2011 at 4:03pm

March 31, 1897 article from The Fort Wayne News describes two exciting games in a women's basketball tournament, including fine dribbling, shooting and teamwork....more

Women's Basketball in Iowa in 1897
by LostCentury
posted August 11, 2011 at 5:15pm

June 11, 1897 article describes the introduction of women's basketball in the State of Iowa....more

Texas High School Girls’ Basketball Team Formed in 1897
by LostCentury
posted August 10, 2011 at 1:05pm

Galveston Daily News reports formation of a girls' high school basketball team, October 31, 1897, Ball High School...more

Six Feet of Girl and No Candy - Basketball Practice in 1898
by LostCentury
posted August 9, 2011 at 11:56am

March 25, 1898 article from San Francisco Call describes training methods and practice for women's basketball team....more

Refuting “Sex Sells” Women’s Sport
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted August 8, 2011 at 3:44pm

The Nation magazine just published a special issue on the role and impact of sport on U.S. culture. Mary Jo Kane, sport media scholar and the Director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota, was aske...more

Penguins Ice Crew: Brrr...it's cold in here...
by After Atalanta
posted August 8, 2011 at 2:20pm

...there must be some sexism in the atmosphere.I think I perhaps knew something about scantily clad young women (note that they are always referred to as girls) on ice skates who come out during NHL games for various reasons. But I don't watch much profes...more

Co-ed Basketball in 1897 led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Daughter
by LostCentury
posted August 8, 2011 at 1:23am

Article from New York Sun, March 7, 1897, Girls and Boys share basketball court. Co-educational movement led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton's daughter....more

Sex And Selling Women’s Sports
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted August 5, 2011 at 4:49pm

The Nation magazine has a special issue on the role and impact of sport on U.S. culture edited by Dave Zirin. One of the articles in this issue is “Sex Sells Sex, Not Women’s Sports” by University of Minnesota sport scholar Mary Jo Kane. Kane has co...more

Lingerie--not just for football players anymore
by After Atalanta
posted August 3, 2011 at 4:34pm

While I certainly do not support the concept and execution of the Lingerie Football League, I see why it exists. It plays on a variety of sexual fetishes and, of course, makes these female athletes far less threatening because of the sexualization and bec...more

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