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Women who highlighted my 2010
by alilee05
posted December 29, 2010 at 11:46pm

Please add your comments at the bottom of this post or else re-tweet this page with the hash tags: #WomenTalkSports Thanks for your support on my first blog post. Here are my favourites in no particular order: Luciana Aymar Known as “the magi...more

Bringing Changes to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games
by nerdbarry
posted November 30, 2010 at 12:38pm

The United States Olympic Committee USOC is not only looking to further the athletic accomplishments but make sustainable environmental changes to the Winter Games. And with the bid for the 2022 games being award in 2015, they must move fast with their ef...more

Boys playing field hockey
by Title IX Blog
posted November 2, 2010 at 6:18pm

Boys playing high school field hockey on historically all-girls' teams has caused the occasional flare-up in the gender equity/Title IX discourse.I came across this article about a not-quite-a flare-up last month. I probably wouldn't have paid too much at...more

OCR concludes investigation of Catawba College
by Title IX Blog
posted October 24, 2010 at 9:47pm

When Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., cut its women's field hockey team last year, Kris concluded that this decision likely violated Title IX, as it served to exacerbate the College's existing disparities between men's and women's athletic opportunitie...more

Wistful memories of an Indian sporting legend
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted October 8, 2010 at 1:39pm

The hottest sport in India these days is cricket, with plenty of flash, dazzle and allegations of scandal that befits the modern sporting age. Not that many years ago, however, India was a field hockey powerhouse with the legendary Dhyan Chand, who’s b...more

No Offense, It's Just Business
by amber2jewel
posted June 12, 2010 at 8:41pm

Marie Hardin recently posted a WTS blog in response to Eric Deggens' column regarding a study confirming that while participation in women's sports has increased with Title IX, media coverage itself is stagnant, if not decreasing (see "Why the Apathy...more

Zimbabwean field hockey player gets a Rhodes
by Women's Sports Blog
posted January 6, 2010 at 2:32pm

The American winners were announced on November 22, but it took a little longer for the international results to come in. IU is bursting at the seams with the news that its own Mutsa Mutembwa was awarded one of the prizes and will study at Oxford. Sin...more

DII field hockey team in NC cut
by Title IX Blog
posted November 13, 2009 at 12:12pm

It's never good news when I pull out my calculator and head to the Department of Education's Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool. And this time it's bad news for Catawba College in North Carolina. According to a very brief piece in USA Today, t...more

2009 D-I Field Hockey bracket released
by Pretty Tough
posted November 11, 2009 at 2:53pm

Defending champ Maryland hasn’t lost this year, going 20-0 en route to an ACC title. Tonight, the Terps and 15 others learned their fates in the D-I Selection Show. Five conferences were awarded automatic qualification. In addition, six conferences com...more

Connecticut boy calls state field hockey policy into question
by Title IX Blog
posted November 3, 2009 at 6:10pm

The Hartford Courant recently profiled a middle school field hockey player in Avon, Connecticut, named Blake Armistead. Though he has been allowed to play on the girls' team in middle school, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference does not a...more

Banning boy from field hockey underscores discrimination and stereotypes against girls
by Title IX Blog
posted July 8, 2009 at 12:50pm

A Waynesboro, PA high school principal's decision to prohibit a male student from trying out for field hockey is being decried by some as "reverse discrimination." Reverse discrimination? Invoking Title IX, the principal told Mat Levine that (1) his pre...more

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