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Play the Game, Call for Papers Deadline May 16, 2011: Themes include "The Gender Challenge to Sport"
by Women in Sport International
posted May 12, 2011 at 12:18am

Play the Game, an international sports governance conference, has extended its call for papers until May 16, 2011.Play the Game is a unique conference, hosted every two years, which addresses the homeless issues in sport. The conference brings together ac...more

Women 100 years ago Exercise Workout Video
by LostCentury
posted May 11, 2011 at 1:53pm

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1899 - Volleyball - The New Game for Girls
by LostCentury
posted May 7, 2011 at 3:39pm

April 23, 1899, Sunday - The San Francisco Call “Volley ball is the game par excellence for girls and young women. It is a new game and meets all the requirements for exercise and physical culture.” So said Miss Walker, instructor in physical tr...more

1892 on Horseback - Where Women Ride Astride
by LostCentury
posted May 3, 2011 at 9:09pm

1892 Harper's Weekly article and illustration - "Where Women Ride Astride" - England...more

Confronting Sexual Abuse and Harassment by Sport Coaches: A Need for a National Effort
by mhueter
posted May 3, 2011 at 1:19pm

This NEW white paper was passed along to us by Donna Lopiano, Ph.D., President of Sports Management Resources. It was developed by members of the "Project to Address Coach-Athlete Sexual Harassment and Abuse", a group of former athletes and sport adm...more

1896 article - "In a Girls' Gymnasium"
by LostCentury
posted May 1, 2011 at 11:10am

1896 article in Munsey's Magazine by Jean Pardee-Clark , "In A Girls' Gymnasium" (excerpts). Illustration by J.M. Gleeson....more

1886 article & illustrations - Swimming for Girls and Women
by LostCentury
posted April 27, 2011 at 8:55pm

1886, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper article and illustration, "Natation for Girls and Women." The article says the artist is a woman but her name is not credited....more

1900 Woman's Physical Development and Emile Zola
by LostCentury
posted April 26, 2011 at 10:30am

1900 Woman's Physical Development magazine cover with motto "Ugliness a Sin, Health is Beauty," and article by Emile Zola, "Why Modern Sports Benefit Woman."...more

1896 article - Regular Exercise for Girls
by LostCentury
posted April 25, 2011 at 10:23am

January 14, 1896 – Harper’s Young People Regularity in bodily training is the “golden rule” of all physicians and gymnasium teachers. “A little exercise every day, taken at a certain time,” is worth more than all the spasmodic exertio...more

1902 article - The Athletic Girl Not Unfeminine
by LostCentury
posted April 24, 2011 at 2:16pm

1902 article published in Outing magazine written by Christine Terhune Herrick...more

Women’s Football (Soccer) over 135 Years Ago
by LostCentury
posted April 24, 2011 at 2:15am

Press reports from 1869-1876 across the country mention women playing football. “American football” had not been invented yet, so “football” meant a soccer-like game. The image was published two months before the first men’s college football game in 1869....more

Watch the video of “The Female Athlete and Concussions”
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted April 20, 2011 at 5:58pm

The video of our Spring 2011 Distinguished Lecture on “The Female Athlete and Concussions” is now available online, free of charge. Featuring Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, Ph.D., Jill Brooks, Ph.D., and Aynsley Smith, Ph.D., R.N. Recen...more

Journalist Verses the News Blogger – An MMA Perspective
by MarQFPR
posted April 20, 2011 at 4:23am

  Information is powerful. So powerful in fact that in the past we had to rely on television, newspapers, and radio to make sure what was going on in our world. Our information streams were relatively clean, with some mistakes and editorial editio...more

Female athletes and concussion
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted April 13, 2011 at 2:57pm

Our Spring Distinguished Lecture Series is tomorrow, Thursday April 14, 7-9pm CST on “The Female Athlete and Concussions.“ Recent research findings in multiple academic disciplines have sparked a much-needed national conversation about the rising...more

Can female sport administrators be “ideal leaders”?
by lcrutch
posted April 12, 2011 at 6:10pm

Research shows that married women with children are less likely to be "ideal leaders" in the sports world....more

A chance to listen: I’m not just a coach, I’m a female coach
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted April 12, 2011 at 12:36pm

Maya Hamilton is an Assistant Swim Coach at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Blog written by Kinesiology graduate student Maya Hamilton. Sometimes the research on the lack of females in coaching and the issues they face seems like a broke...more

New group researching legal equality issues for female athletes launched at Queen's University Faculty of Law
by Women in Sport International
posted April 7, 2011 at 2:55pm

A new research group, The Women in Sport Legal Research Group, is proud to announce that it will conducting important legal  research on gender equality in sport. The group, which has been working in various degrees since 2009, is proud to welco...more

Women's sport and the media
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted April 5, 2011 at 10:24am

"As newsroom staffs shrink and eyeballs measure interest, women’s sports coverage is losing ground it once seemed to be gaining."So, there you have it. We're not just imagining mainstream news outlets don't have room for women's sports, The Nieman Fou...more

Investing in Women -- Why Women Leaders Lead to Success
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted March 30, 2011 at 6:42pm

Author: NACWAA NACWAA believes strongly that advancing women into leadership positions ultimately leads to a more balanced, equitable and successful society. Last week's Forbes.com article by Kathy Caprino, Mandating Women At The Leadership Table: W...more

Do athletes think faster?
by Draft Day Suit
posted March 29, 2011 at 7:22pm

Can playing sports actually help focus your brain? Researchers are starting to think so. An article published in The Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine earlier this month shows research that seems to support the theory that athletes exc...more

Battling Homophobia in Women's Basketball: Helen Carroll
by mhueter
posted March 27, 2011 at 12:47pm

Following is an exclusive interview with Helen Carroll, who leads the Sports Project at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. She is well known in the sports world as an acclaimed national championship basketball coach from the University of North ...more

WSJ reports on brain similarities between adolescents of different sex
by Title IX Blog
posted March 23, 2011 at 8:53pm

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal reported findings of government research that casts doubt on assumptions that male and female brains are significantly different during adolescence. As the article put it: A common stereotype is that boys develop more slo...more

Laura Robinson and Nikki Dryden join Women in Sport International
by Women in Sport International
posted March 20, 2011 at 5:06pm

Women in Sport International is proud to announce that Laura Robinson and Nikki Dryden have joined the blog and will be soon contributing regular blog posts. Laura is an award winning journalist, author and former Canadian national team athlete. Nikki ...more

Women’s MMA & Pro-wrestling Part 1 – The Introduction
by MarQFPR
posted March 15, 2011 at 1:39am

Gian Carano & Cyborg Santos Courtesy Ester Lin/Strikeforce I, like most MMA fans, grew up on pro-wrestling. This was the closest thing we could get to real violence. Then came the UFC, and with it a revolution was born. “This is real wrestlin...more

Curley Center chat evaluates coverage of youth sports
by Sports, Media & Society
posted March 9, 2011 at 9:49pm

Some basic sports rules—including three strikes and you’re out in baseball or 10 yards for a first down in football—apply whether a game is contested among professionals or pre-teens, but accepted and expected conduct of the media when covering thos...more

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