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Olympic Boxing – Shields Heads to Gold Medal Match; Esparza Takes Bronze
by Wombat Sports
posted August 8, 2012 at 8:39pm

Shields Courtesy AP Team USA’s Claressa Shields has been steamrolling through her competition; and is now one win away from being the USA’s first gold medalist in women’s boxing. Shields won a 29-15 decision over Marina Volnova ...more

Judge's ruling on cheerleading raises key issues
by Sports, Media & Society
posted August 8, 2012 at 8:31pm

Is cheerleading a sport? According to a federal judge, the answer is no for Title IX purposes. Quinnipiac University tried to argue that it could swap its women’s volleyball team for a competitive cheerleading squad. Competitive cheerleading &...more

Quinnipiac ruling upheld
by Title IX Blog
posted August 8, 2012 at 8:28pm

The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision issued by federal Judge Stefan Underhill in 2010 which stated the Quinnipiac University could not count competitive cheerleading as a sport for Title IX compliance purposes. The decision is no...more

USWNT: Record Crowd Expected at Wembley
by Sarah Hallett
posted August 8, 2012 at 5:22pm

The U.S. women will play Japan in the gold medal match tomorrow night at Wembley Stadium before a record crowd for a women's soccer match in the UK....more

NPF Week 9 full of hits and home runs along with dominate pitching performances
by anngaff
posted August 8, 2012 at 5:21pm

via release (Photo, left: Monica Abbott of the Chicago Bandits - credit Dina Kwit) This past weekend was another typical weekend in the NPF. Pitchers kept the scores low, but the hits still came. Over the weekend, three different hitters hit two...more

40 City Post Olympic Gymnastics Tour Scheduled
by Sports Girls Play
posted August 8, 2012 at 3:37pm

2008 Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin and members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team will kick-off the Kellogg’s®Tour of Gymnastics Champions on Sept. 9 in Ontario, Calif. The 40-city tour runs through Nov. 18 and will make stops in ...more

Two close games in quarterfinals madness
by They're Playing Basketball
posted August 8, 2012 at 2:37pm

1. The USA got things rolling today with a 91-48 whomping of Canada. It's their 39th consecutive win.Diana Taurasi lead four other players in double figures.Game quotes.Photo gallery.Dominant Team USA is playing hard and having fun.Sue Bird directs the te...more

Female Olympians fight back against shamers and haters
by Caitlin Constantine
posted August 8, 2012 at 1:29pm

The Olympics may have provided us with a global exhibition of some seriously retrograde ideas about athletes and femininity, but they have also provided us with something even more important, and that's the sight of female athletes fighting back....more

Storm All-Star Lauren Jackson makes Olympic scoring history
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted August 8, 2012 at 6:15am

Storm All-Star Lauren Jackson waltzed into the history books on Tuesday. It just wasn't the mark she wanted to leave at the 2012 London Olympic Games. With a turnaround jumper in the fourth quarter of a win against China, the Australian set the all-time ...more

All In, All Out: a note on the amazing Megan Rapinoe
by From A Left Wing
posted August 8, 2012 at 6:07am

In two interviews, four years apart, two different USWNT players casually identified themselves as gay to reporters. Neither did so with the solemn declaration, "I'm a lesbian." Both players answered a reporter's question in a way that snuffed out the pr...more

Olympic gold closer for Mary Kom and Katie Taylor
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted August 8, 2012 at 5:57am

When 83-year-old Barbara Buttrick took the microphone in the Excel Centre yesterday, the world tilted just a little. She told us how she’d fought about one thousand exhibition bouts against men in 1940s England because there weren’t any women ...more

AWK’s 2012 NCAA Soccer Preview – Wisconsin-Milwaukee – New Start, Same Success?
by All White Kit
posted August 8, 2012 at 5:52am

Busiest Combat Day in the 2012 Olympics Happen Wednesday
by Wombat Sports
posted August 8, 2012 at 5:48am

Chun Three women’s combat sports will all be competing on the same day Wednesday for the London 2012 Olympics. Besides the boxing semi-fianls featuring Team USA’s Marlen Esparza, and Claressa Sheilds; wrestling and taekwondo will start the...more

Olympic Track and Field Day 6 Preview
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted August 8, 2012 at 5:37am

Each day I’ll be doing a fairly extensive but “just the facts, ma’am” preview. For something a little more narrative, head on over to Flotrack. Some notes: names in gold, silver or bronze are the medal position predicted by Track ...more

Anum Bandey breaks Pak record in London
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted August 7, 2012 at 7:27pm

By Alam Zeb Safi KARACHI: Pakistan’s England-born swimmer Anum Bandey on Saturday bettered her own national record when she clocked 5:34.64 in the opening heat of the 400m Individual Medley event of women’s swimming at London 2012 Olympi...more

Carissa Westlund Talks Debut at Steel Fist Fights
by Wombat Sports
posted August 7, 2012 at 6:56pm

Steel Fist Fights has up the ante as they will feature four female fights at their 10th event this Saturday in Salt Lake City. Among them is the debuting Carissa Westlund , who will take on fellow debuting fighter Palen Cornell. We talked to We...more

FIFA Women’s Com-Unity Seminar in St. Lucia
by Soccer Science
posted August 7, 2012 at 6:51pm

St. Lucia, a tropical island in the Eastern Caribbean, is an absolutely breathtaking, scenic place with incredibly friendly people. The country has a small population of about 160,000 people, and every single person I passed by – whether in the F...more

Olympic Women's 800 meter preview
by PeterGambaccini
posted August 7, 2012 at 6:45pm

By Peter Gambaccini...more

What they wrote about USA-Canada (Soccer)
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted August 7, 2012 at 3:41pm

Tweet Since I can’t come up with anything terribly profound to say after Monday’s women’s Olympic soccer epic between the U.S. and Canada, I’ll link here this morning to those who were there and had the daunting duty of putting to...more

NCAA moves forward with raised GPA requirements
by They're Playing Basketball
posted August 7, 2012 at 3:36pm

The NCAA is moving forward with their plan to increase grade point average requirements for students who plan to play at Division I schools. This year's ncoming high school freshmen must have a minimum 2.3 grade point average - up from a 2.0 - to be eligi...more

AWK’s 2012 NCAA Soccer Preview – UC Irvine – Transition Year Also An NCAA Tournament Year?
by All White Kit
posted August 7, 2012 at 3:32pm

Olympic 100 meter hurdles Preview
by carabyrd
posted August 7, 2012 at 11:51am

As of right now, we do not know who will be in the 100 meter hurdle finals. The semi-finals will take a few hours earlier. The favorite is Australia’s Sally Pearson. Pearson is the reigning world champion and holds the fastest performance in...more

Olympics – What We Learned: U.S.-Canada – Sorry Canadians, But “Tuff S***”
by All White Kit
posted August 7, 2012 at 7:00am

SamuelLJackson: “Don’t know enuf about Soccer refs to know, but TV dude says he’s never SEEN that call made! Wow….we ll… TUFF S***!” Yup, that’s what Samuel L. Jackson (indeed, that’s the same guy...more

Alex Morgan is a Beast – USWNT Moves on to Gold Medal Match
by Pretty Tough
posted August 7, 2012 at 6:50am

Nails were bitten to the quick. Voices hoarse from yelling. Heart palpitations no doubt sent soccer fans reaching for their chests. The United States vs. Canada women’s soccer semifinal in Manchester, England on Monday was about as thrilling a...more

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