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From the archives: The gap between sports and art
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted August 8, 2014 at 4:27pm

While I’m taking a summer break from the blog, I’m reposting and updating selected links from the archive. * * * * * * * * Sports art exhibits are not uncommon, but they’re not talked or written about all that much either. Despite som...more

From the archives: A half-century of SI swimsuits
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted August 7, 2014 at 8:02pm

While I’m taking a summer break from the blog, I’m reposting and updating selected links from the archive. * * * * * * * * * The usual furor over the Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit issue didn’t materialize much this winter. That wa...more

From the archives: The Web and longform sports
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted August 6, 2014 at 4:58pm

While I’m taking a summer break from the blog, I’m reposting and updating selected links from the archive. * * * * * * * * When I posted “The Web’s longform longform sports evolution continues” in September 2012, I had no ...more

From the archives: Baseball and the Romantics
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted August 4, 2014 at 5:57pm

While I’m taking a summer break from the blog, I’m reposting and updating selected links from the archive. * * * * * * * * With another Baseball Hall of Fame Class having been inducted into Cooperstown, I thought I’d dig into the XCs v...more

PEN/ESPN honors Anderson; BASW 2014 lineup announced
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted August 2, 2014 at 2:02pm

Tweet When hearing the news this week that he had been awarded the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, Dave Anderson said, ”I’d put that right on the same level as the Pulitzer Prize.” Anderson, a colu...more

Midweek Books: The odyssey of golf in China
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted July 30, 2014 at 3:52pm

  On Wednesday I highlight noteworthy new sports books, with links to reviews, interviews and other information about the subject and/or author. * * * * * * * * Golf was outlawed in China until 1984. Now there are believed to be several million ...more

Summer Readings: Roger Angell and ‘An Angel or the Devil’
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted July 29, 2014 at 2:53pm

Richard Sandomir writes about Roger Angell of The New Yorker, the J.G. Taylor Spink honoree into the Baseball Hall of Fame for his writing. Now 93, Angell joins the company of Ring Lardner, Red Smith, Shirley Povich and Dick Young. His baseball essays fo...more

Book Review: A History of Women's Boxing
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted July 14, 2014 at 5:11pm

Have you ever wondered about the women who came before you, the women who fought and pushed the boundaries of women’s fighting to make space for you?  American Malissa Smith has, and she’s now answered many of our questions in a fascinati...more

Make @Warrior Accountable: A social media campaign against sexism in sport
by The Rabbit Hole
posted July 11, 2014 at 9:31pm

It was brought to my attention today that Warrior is a horrifically sexist and misogynistic company.  This was very disappointing to learn since I am a consumer of Warrior of equipment.  I tried out a bunch of sticks when I switched to a one-pie...more

The paradox of sports journalists online
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted June 19, 2014 at 9:09pm

Tweet On Tuesday I write about developments in sports media, and occasionally step back in time to a different era in sports journalism. * * * * * * * * When I first got the hang of Twitter — and discovered how much of a magnificent time vampire ...more

WNBA players to be featured on ABC show "Bachelorette" show
by They're Playing Basketball
posted June 2, 2014 at 9:27pm

From WNBA HQ:ON-COURT DRAMA TURNS INTO OFF-COURT FIREWORKS, AS FIRST, 11 MEN GO TOE-TO-TOE WITH WNBA SUPERSTARS AND THEN, ANDI’S FAIRYTALE GOES AWRY, ON “THE BACHELORETTE”THE TWO-NIGHT “BACHELORETTE” SPECIAL EVENT CONCLUDES M...more

Sports History Files: A new blog for American games
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted May 29, 2014 at 9:40pm

Tweet Earlier this month a group of academics (a number of them Ph.D. candidates) launched a blog devoted to American sports history that they’ve titled, appropriately enough, “Sport in American History.” The blog also has a Twitter ac...more

Kickstarting a global sports website launch
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted May 19, 2014 at 9:21pm

Tweet Nearly three years ago one of the rare independent additions to the growing online sports magazine set was launched via Kickstarter. Now, some of the people and contributors behind The Classical are involved in another Kickstarter effort to begin ...more

The Swish Appeal Podcast, Episode 3: Featuring Holly Warlick, Essence Carson, Dr. Nicholas Gallucci, and Michael Cooper
by Swish Appeal
posted April 29, 2014 at 9:48pm

Here's our latest podcast, featuring four guests. Hi everyone, We've decided to move our podcast to Mondays! Here are the guests on today's show: 1. Holly Warlick, Head Coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols Basketball Team (Twitter | Official Bio) ...more

Gender in MMA: Female fighters expected to walk a fine line
by Women's MMA Roundup
posted April 29, 2014 at 2:19pm

UFC Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey recently referred to Cris "Cyborg" Santos an "it" because of all the steroids she allegedly has taken.  Women's MMA Roundup discusses this insult as it relates to gender, specifically in the world of mixed ma...more

Pac-12 Networks announces new all-access show: Tara VanDerveer: Life in a Season
by anngaff
posted February 28, 2014 at 6:53pm

Stanford Coach Tara VanDerveer has won 920 games to date, third-most in NCAA women’s basketball history, lead Stanford to two national championships and 25 Conference titles, and earn a spot in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Her proven p...more

Women Owning The Game of Business Golf
by HeraeaMarketing
posted February 27, 2014 at 9:04am

Don’t worry about breaking into the boy’s club; break into the Professional Corporate Female Athlete Club...more

Podcast – MMA Fighter and Boxer Jen Tate
by Wombat Sports
posted January 16, 2014 at 9:37pm

Starting he MMA career in 2006 and one of the cast of the reality show “Fight Girls”, Jennifer Tate went 6-1 in MMA until she decided to take some time off in 2010 to start a family. In 2012, she took a trip to Thailand to train Muay Thai and ...more

New January sports books: Wooden, Beckham and athletes’ minds
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted January 6, 2014 at 7:08pm

Tweet A good variety of newly published sports books will be out this month, and here’s a quick look at some of the leading titles. • John Wooden: A Coach’s Life, by Seth Davis — Davis, of Sports Illustrated and CBS Sports, went i...more

Backtracking 2013: The best of Sports History Files
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted January 1, 2014 at 7:53pm

Tweet On Monday, I wrote about the marvelous longform sportswriting that continues to proliferate on the Web, despite some crabbiness to the contrary. Today I’m linking to posts I wrote in the past year about sports history, one of the foundation...more

Podcast – Polish MMA Sensation Agnieszka Niedzwiedz
by Wombat Sports
posted December 18, 2013 at 9:35pm

At only 18 years of age and still in high school, Agnieszka Niedzwiedz is undefeated as a professional MMA fighter, gaining her fourth win in her Cage Warriors debut earlier this month. We will talk to Niedzwiedz about her recent win, how she g...more

The Red Bulletin covers women in sport ... again
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted December 13, 2013 at 6:49pm

An actual athlete!I haven't chucked 'The Red Bulletin' straight into the bin two months in a row, is this a record? Cover story is skier Lindsay Vonn and inside you've got football goalie Emma Byrne - two pages - and sprinter Jodie Williams - five pages...more

Professional Barrel Racer Christina Dusendang Signs with Impact Gel Corporation
by HeraeaMarketing
posted December 10, 2013 at 8:11pm

Arizona - December 10, 2013 -Christina Dusendang and her horse Bug Ya for Moolah sign with Impact Gel Corporation.    Impact Gel saddles have been used by more world champions than any other saddle company in the past decade (impactgel.com). Th...more

Glena Avila Documentary Accepted to SlamDance Film Festival
by Wombat Sports
posted December 4, 2013 at 9:03am

The long awaited documentary about Oregon MMA fighter Glena Avila has been accepted as an entry into the prestigious SlamDance Film Festival. Emmy award winning filmmaker Allan Luebke and producer Josh Leake followed Avila for two years as she was&n...;more

Women in Sport blogs and websites
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted December 3, 2013 at 10:25pm

Time again for a round-up of some great blogs and websites promoting women in sport: PIC: Re Wikstrom - from her Tumblr. (Click photo to go there)ShredBetties Getting ready for the Winter Olympics in February next year? This snowboarding mag wil...more

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