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Do you know your ideal success blueprint
by Loren Fogelman
posted March 11, 2011 at 11:09am

Did you know that 95% of all athletes have not clearly defined their goals? Defined is to the essential qualities necessary to reach your goal. Focused, single-minded intention about your goals directly affects your success. A well-defined goal connects...more

Who's afraid of ("feminine") Tom Brady?
by After Atalanta
posted March 10, 2011 at 10:08pm

Wow--I mean wow. This attention to Tom Brady's hair has reached shocking levels of outrage. And it's also reached those subtle (and not-so-subtle I would imagine in conversations among fans--and enemies) levels of homophobia. Because Tom Brady has been sp...more

Jen Hilton on all-male American Football team in Great Britain
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted March 1, 2011 at 9:23am

Coventry JetsThere is an on-going debate between fans of American football and rugby as to which sport is better. We'll leave that to someone else to decide but one thing everyone agrees on is that both sets of athletes are tough, tough and well, tough.So...more

Vonn concussion race: NFL players aren’t the only athletes who deserve better protection
by Fair Game News
posted February 16, 2011 at 12:38pm

By Laura Pappano It’s February and Lindsey Vonn is in the news. Again. Unlike last year, when we debated whether or not she was exploited by an SI swimsuit spread, this year she has just won the silver medal in the downhill world championships in Garm...more

What Clay Matthews should've worn to the Grammys
by A Glam Slam
posted February 14, 2011 at 10:47pm

Aaron Rodgers went to Disneyland. Clay Matthews went to the Grammys. One week after the Green Bay Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers to win Super Bowl XLV, Packers linebacker Clay Matthews was a presenter during music’s biggest night of the year....more

Mega-events offer outlet for against-the-grain analysis & critique
by Sports, Media & Society
posted February 8, 2011 at 3:03pm

Sports mega-events like the Super Bowl, the World Cup, and the Olympics offer grand stages for the participants (athletes & others), organizations, and institutions associated with each; these mega-events also provide an opportune stage for analysis a...more

Bleeding Green & Gold :)
by Jenny on the Run
posted February 7, 2011 at 9:37pm

In case you haven’t heard, the Green Bay Packers are World Champions. What an awesome win it was last night against the Steelers to become the Champs… and bring the Lombardi Trophy back to where it’s truly meant to be! As I’m down here in Flo...more

Super Bowl edition: Why is football so special?
by Fair Game News
posted February 3, 2011 at 9:13am

By Laura Pappano More people will watch Super Bowl XLV this Sunday than tuned in for the President’s State of the Union address last week. It’s not even close (42.8 million watched President Barack Obama vs. an expected 110 million). That’s no dis...more

Glee’s Lea Michele tackles “America the Beautiful” at Super Bowl XLV
by Pretty Tough
posted January 29, 2011 at 1:56am

Access Hollywood has confirmed that Lea Michele, the 24-year-old Broadway ingenue-turned-breakout star of “Glee,” will be singing “America the Beautiful” prior to the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers showdown in Super Bowl XLV. Pas...more

Steelers: Bigger than Ben Roethlisberger
by Draft Day Suit
posted January 26, 2011 at 4:46pm

Tweets about evil quarterbacks and home team love were running rampant during Sunday night’s AFC championship game between the Steelers and Jets. Some chimed in about never forgiving Michael Vick, a position I support with every fiber of my being. As a ...more

Not a good week for UConn athletics
by After Atalanta
posted January 26, 2011 at 1:11pm

The smaller problem: the women's basketball team is losing freshman forward Samarie Walker. Walker was number 10 in her recruiting class--the number forward in the country coming out of high school (in Ohio).But apparently there was discontent from the st...more

Packers v. Steelers in Super Bowl XLV
by Draft Day Suit
posted January 25, 2011 at 1:23am

It’s the Pack and the Stillers in the Super Bowl, dudes. The Jets crashed and burned (You should believe me when I say that that pun was totally unintended. Weird.) and the Bears resembled a cast of men trying out for Friday Night Lights, which made it...more

An NCAA Rant: USC Appeal Saturday & I Have THOUGHTS
by Draft Day Suit
posted January 23, 2011 at 11:23am

A guest post from Amy Lamare at GridironGoddess.net. Well fellow USC fans, this is it. Right now the USC contingent is in Indianapolis getting ready to plead our case to the NCAA on Saturday. I am sure you, like me, are doing every good juju, good mojo,...more

Emptying the coach's closet
by A Glam Slam
posted January 17, 2011 at 8:12pm

When former University of Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez was fired on January 5th, it prompted this tweet from A Glam Slam: We know that when a team loses a championship game, their pre-made winning gear is typically shipped off to Thir...more

One Team, One Dream
by PrincessPunish
posted January 17, 2011 at 5:48pm

Always the Underdogs...more

WNBA's Candace Parker and Cathrine Kraayeveld talk NFL
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted January 15, 2011 at 8:44pm

Sorry for posting so late, but here's the link with Los Angeles star Candace Parker and Seattle native Cathrine Kraayeveld talking about Sunday's matchup between the Chicago Bears and Seahawks. Parker, who was born in Illinois, is a lifelong Bears fan. K...more

WNBA players trash talk about NFL playoffs
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted January 13, 2011 at 5:10pm

Most Storm fans should know by now that free agent Swin Cash is a die-hard Pittsburgh Steelers fan (enter groan here). The All-Star SF makes sure all know that frantic towel waving originates with the "Terrible Towels" and nowhere else. With the NFL playo...more

I must root for my better
by Draft Day Suit
posted January 12, 2011 at 1:08pm

My grandfather used to say, “If you can’t root for your own team, you must root for your better.” This is possibly the most painful piece of sage advice I’ve ever suffered through. Have you ever TRIED to root for your better? To root for the tea...more

Oregon wins the BCS style showdown
by A Glam Slam
posted January 11, 2011 at 1:25pm

Apparently Nike fooled us all. In early December they had released photos of Oregon's BCS title game uniforms and the white-on-white look was not too well-received. As the visiting team, the Ducks would have to wear white jerseys but white pants too? No...more

Female celebs will dominate Super Bowl ads
by A Glam Slam
posted January 10, 2011 at 3:44pm

Last year, funny lady Betty White dominated the Super Bowl commercial chatter with this humorous Snickers ad. This year's Big Game spots will feature yet another crop of high-profile female celebs and a series of "powerful" ads to match. Race car drive...more

Favre and Jets sued by massage therapists
by Draft Day Suit
posted January 5, 2011 at 8:49pm

Brett Favre and the Jets are being sued by two former massage therapists who claim they lost their part-time jobs with the Jets due to complaints they made when skeevy Brett Favre was in hot pursuit. And if you remember correctly, turning Brett down might...more

Does the LFL brawl like it plays football?
by Athletic Women Blog
posted December 22, 2010 at 12:08am

I hadn't paid much attention to the Lingerie Football League before recently. I had seen just enough about it to know that I wasn't that interested. But over the last few weeks the controversy that it engenders has become increasingly difficult to avoid. ...more

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