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WNBA To Help Raise Awarness & Funds For Breast Cancer In Final Week Of Regular Season
by Swish Appeal
posted September 18, 2012 at 7:24am

The WNBA's annual Breast Health Awareness Week began yesterday and will continue through September 23, highlighted by two televised games in San Antonio (Sept. 18) and Phoenix (Sept. 23) on ESPN2. But the Indiana Fever got started early, holding their ...more

Trackcenter Top Ten
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 18, 2012 at 7:20am

Your top news links of the day… Weekend results Britain’s Great North Run half marathon: Tirunesh Dibaba won her half marathon debut, and London Marathon champ Wilson Kipsang won a close, thrilling race. Read the IAAF report. At the GNR, o...more

Cappie Pondexter of the New York Liberty and Nneka Ogwumike of the Los Angeles Sparks were named...
by Swish Appeal
posted September 18, 2012 at 7:17am

  Cappie Pondexter of the New York Liberty and Nneka Ogwumike of the Los Angeles Sparks were named the WNBA’s Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week presented by Boost Mobile, respectively, for games played Sept. 10 through Sep. 16...more

This past week's log.
by Meggan's Running Blog
posted September 17, 2012 at 9:01am

Monday: 12 miles on the roads at a good paceTuesday: 20min w/u, 15x 80sec @5:18 pace, 40 sec jog rec., 20min c/d (treadmill)Wednesday: 80 minutesThursday: 80 minutesFriday: 1.5 mile w/u, 14.56 miles at 6:16 pace on hilly road loop...more

Entering.....the last week of the WNBA regular-season play
by They're Playing Basketball
posted September 17, 2012 at 8:58am

Tonight's results:Hey, the Shock won again - defeated the Silver Stars 80-70. And what's up with San Antonio? They seem to be falling apart.The Liberty rallied for a win over the Mystics, 75-68, behind Cappie Pondexter's 30-point explosion. And Trudi Lace...more

Venus Williams Unveils New Collection at Fashion Week
by Pretty Tough
posted September 17, 2012 at 8:54am

Tennis star Venus Williams, straight from the U.S. Open, debuted the latest collection for EleVen at New York Fashion Week – the first time she’s shown her line at such the high profile event. Both Venus and her sister Serena are known for ...more

Video – The Incalculable InvictaFC Promo
by Wombat Sports
posted September 16, 2012 at 8:22pm

Courtesy Ester Lin How can you measure a fight? You can count punches, submission attempts, cage control time; among other stats. When it comes to Invicta, the number grows as to how many people are watching. Come Oct. 6, their fighters want their rec...more

Iranian Female Athletes Find Their Way
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted September 16, 2012 at 8:09pm

By Leila MOURI At this summer's London paralympics, Iran's Zahra Nemati won an archery gold, becoming the first Iranian woman to win a gold medal at any Olympic Games. In an interview with the Tehran Times, Nemati said that the lack of faciliti...more

USWNT: Tour Continues in L.A., Rampone Not Done Yet
by Sarah Hallett
posted September 16, 2012 at 6:21pm

The U.S. women won 2-1 in a tough match against Australia in front of nearly 20,000 fans at the Home Depot Center....more

NCAA Soccer – The First XI for September 16, 2012 – Penn State vs Wisconsin (and Much, Much More)
by All White Kit
posted September 16, 2012 at 1:13pm

  Christine Nairn Will Try To Lead Penn State to A Vital Three Points Against Wisconsin on Sunday Penn State vs Wisconsin – 1:00 PM There’s no love lost between these two rivals, and with a potential Big Ten title on the line between...more

[Video Trailer] Fifteen Love – A Tale of Tennis Playing Twins
by Pretty Tough
posted September 16, 2012 at 1:11pm

(Editor's Note: WTS readers - if you want to see more female athletes as protagonists in popular fiction, please consider supporting this series. ~js) It's back-to-school time and that mean a new Pretty Tough book. Look for Fifteen Love, the latest title...more

Best sports reads and links, Sept. 15
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted September 16, 2012 at 9:43am

  Rounding up some of the most intriguing reads I’ve come across this week, posted on Sports Biblio, my experimental Tumblr companion to this site, or that I have Tweeted and collected elsewhere: Pigskin Progessivism — George Will&rsqu...;more

Last night's quintuple-header
by They're Playing Basketball
posted September 15, 2012 at 9:36pm

Lindsay Whalen delivered in the clutch again, lifting Minnesota over Indiana, 66-64. Here's the photo gallery.The Mystics lost their tenth straight, and the Dream clinched a playoff spot as they took the 82-74 victory. And somehow, Trudi Lacey hasn't been...more

Stephanie Eggink Signs with XFC; Faces Heather Clark Dec. 7
by Wombat Sports
posted September 15, 2012 at 9:34pm

Via Press release A former member of the Unites States National Boxing Team, Stephanie Eggink has signed a multi-fight deal with Xtreme Fighting Championships. Eggink was once the top ranked amateur boxer in the United States and competed on be...more

The Weekend Ahead (Traxk)
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 15, 2012 at 9:30pm

Track is slowing down, cross country and road racing is speeding up. Here is the slate of the weekend’s competitions and viewing options. Upcoming competitions College cross country is ramping up, and the USTFCCCA has all the weekend’s meet...more

Trackcenter Top Twenty
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted September 15, 2012 at 9:24pm

If you’re a regular reader of this space, you may have noticed that the daily top ten links package has gone silent for the last few days. Truly regular readers of this space know that I’m a high school teacher and I coach cross country in th...more

Podcast – Top MMA Fighter Tara LaRosa
by Wombat Sports
posted September 15, 2012 at 9:50am

One of the best flyweights on the planet is ready to take on the next generation of female fighters. After only getting a spattering of fights in the past few years, Tara LaRosa will get her chace to show her high experienced skills at InvictaFC 3 Oct. 6...more

Terrapins Upset #6 Tar Heels, 2-1
by All White Kit
posted September 15, 2012 at 9:48am

  Game-winning goalscorer Hayley Brock heads the ball against Carolina The sixth-ranked University of North Carolina brought three of the heroines of the recently concluded U-20 Women’s World Cup to Ludwig Field: forward Kealia Ohai, defend...more

Sparks over Sky; WNBA and NCAA news
by They're Playing Basketball
posted September 15, 2012 at 9:44am

Last night:Sparks rookie forward Nnemkadi Ogwumike lead her team to an 86-77 victory over the Sky with a career-high 30 points. She also had 11 rebounds, and Delisha Milton-Jones added 19 points. Swin Cash exploded in the second half for Chicago and finis...more

Alana Beard hosts kid's fitness clinic with Jamba Juice
by They're Playing Basketball
posted September 15, 2012 at 9:35am

As part of the “Team Up For a Healthy America” partnership, the WNBA and Jamba Juice hosted a FIT clinic Wednesday at the Santa Monica Boys and Girls Club. Los Angeles Sparks star Alana Beard joined the WNBA FIT team to lead more than 120 loca...more

The WNBA and How Leagues Survive
by Swish Appeal
posted September 15, 2012 at 9:32am

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain On Rebkell and elsewhere, there is some concern about the state of the WNBA. Attendance is down, and in some places markedly so. Some say the season is a bore, with two separate competitio...more

Athletes Invade Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
by A Glam Slam
posted September 15, 2012 at 9:29am

The fusion of fashion and sports was evident throughout Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, with another season marked by sports-influences on the runway and sports stars in attendance. In recent years it has become commonplace to see athletes seated front r...more

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