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Ashley Fiolek Rides In Red Bull Ad
by Girls Riders Organization, Inc.
posted April 24, 2011 at 7:41pm

Red Bull has a new commercial featuring Ashley Fiolek. If that is not enough you can check out The World Of Ashley Fiolek. ...more

National Pro Fastpitch launches unique 20 for 2020 fundraising campaign!
by Women in Sport International
posted April 24, 2011 at 7:36pm

National Pro Fastpitch, the premier and only women's professional fastball league in the United States, has launched a unique fundraising campaign that is designed to raise vital league funding from individual donars. The league features the best women's ...more

1902 article - The Athletic Girl Not Unfeminine
by LostCentury
posted April 24, 2011 at 2:16pm

1902 article published in Outing magazine written by Christine Terhune Herrick...more

Girl skateboarder games everywhere
by Girls Riders Organization, Inc.
posted April 24, 2011 at 1:13pm

Two more online girl skater dress up games just went up. Interesting the recent increase of these. (Editor's Note: What kind of message do you think these games send to girls?) ...more

Women’s Football (Soccer) over 135 Years Ago
by LostCentury
posted April 24, 2011 at 2:15am

Press reports from 1869-1876 across the country mention women playing football. “American football” had not been invented yet, so “football” meant a soccer-like game. The image was published two months before the first men’s college football game in 1869....more

First 20 miler since pregnancy. 8 weeks out from marathon debut
by Meggan's Running Blog
posted April 24, 2011 at 1:25am

This week:Sunday:60minutes at a snail paceMonday: 73 minutesTuesday: 2 mile w/u, 4X60/45/30/15 sec @5:10-5:15 pace, max of 60 sec recovery. + 20 minutes marathon tempo (6:20, 6:21, 6:20)Wednesday: 60 minutes on the trainer & abs (achilles)Thursday: AM...more

Delaware athletes file Office of Civil Rights complaint
by Title IX Blog
posted April 23, 2011 at 2:49pm

There has been a lot of press about the cutting of men's outdoor track and cross country at University of Delaware since the announcement was made in January. We haven't commented on it because it has been the usual blame game: blame on Title IX mostly, b...more

Three ways Laurel Richie's Girl Scouts experience bodes well for her new role as WNBA President
by Swish Appeal
posted April 23, 2011 at 2:17pm

Laurel Richie at the 2010 Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas' State of the Girl event. It's obvious by now that Laurel J. Richie's business acumen was among the primary reasons she got the job as WNBA president to succeed Donna Orender. Perhaps equally ob...more

Law article seeks Title IX's application to transgender student harassment
by Title IX Blog
posted April 23, 2011 at 2:14pm

A law student's article in the Texas Review of Law and Politics Journal seeks to leverage Title IX's prohibition on sex discrimination to offer fully protection against harassment to transgender students. Citing statistics from GLSEN, the author, Tina S...more

Violent injury: just ‘part of the game’?
by Off The Court
posted April 23, 2011 at 2:03pm

‘This is a barbaric game, this game is not for the weak. You play football, you understand that.’ Former gridiron player Marshall Faulk is blunt in his assessment of the violence involved in American football.This year, for the first time, AFL players...more

Earth Day inspired home detox
by Run Granola Run- Musings of a Gluten Free Runner
posted April 23, 2011 at 1:22pm

The sun was shining brightly today in Portland. It was definitely the nicest day in a long time and actually really felt like Spring. Unfortunately, that meant allergies for me and a trip to the pharmacy to get a refill inhaler, something I haven’...more

Rails-to-Trails Workout
by Running Rebecca
posted April 23, 2011 at 1:46am

Last week we ventured out to Alexandria to workout on the Lower rail trail. The drive down 45 with all the beautiful farmland complete with Pennsylvania’s picturesque stone farm houses and rustic barns is always a treat. As we get closer we drive al...more

Hitting the wall: Why have women’s marathon times stalled?
by Fair Game News
posted April 23, 2011 at 1:25am

By Laura Pappano Whether or not the IAAF decides to recognize as a new world record Geoffrey Mutai’s win in the Boston Marathon, crossing in 2:03:02 – 57 seconds faster than Haile Gebreselassie’s 2008 record of 2:03:59 – is, in some ways, immater...more

Betsy Johnson's Barbie-inspired Derby hat
by A Glam Slam
posted April 22, 2011 at 9:12pm

The Kentucky Derby is still weeks away but a tremendous amount of time and effort has already gone into preparing Derby day headwear. Betsy Johnson, a designer known for her funky, over-the-top fashions, will partake in the festivities with some clever cr...more

Green Olympics for London?
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted April 22, 2011 at 7:30pm

Happy Earth Day everyone! Just noticed the animated Google-logo for today, very cute. But of more relevance to us are the plans to Green-Up for the London Olympics next year. From reading this BBC story, it looks like eco-plans were part of the scheme fr...more

The NBA’s first (and only) female scout
by One Sport Voice
posted April 22, 2011 at 7:12pm

Bonnie Jill Laflin Okay…here you go readers…. A graduate student sent me breaking news this morning (thanks EH!) about a picture and article of the first and only female NBA scout. She is pictured here in a PETA ad. I’m not 100% certain, but I�...more

Minnesota's Mankato cutting sports
by Title IX Blog
posted April 22, 2011 at 2:38pm

Somehow it flew under our radar last fall that Minnesota State University Mankato was planning on cutting four sports: men's swimming/diving, women's bowling, and men's and women's tennis.But they indeed were. And then the student-athletes and their suppo...more

How to make sure we keep our athletes first
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted April 22, 2011 at 2:14pm

source Students on our college campuses aren’t learning. That’s a very general summation of a study called, “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning On College Campuses”. Since I see myself as part of the teaching stratosphere at my institution...more

Pondering big bucks and womens coaches, part 2
by They're Playing Basketball
posted April 22, 2011 at 2:41am

Wendy Parker contemplates the discrepancies between what women's basketball coaches are - more and more - making versus the revenue the sport pulls in.Do the athletic directors have any plans to market women's hoops? It's a great question:Perhaps the grow...more

The WNBA has its new President: Laurel Richie
by They're Playing Basketball
posted April 22, 2011 at 1:09am

She's Lauren J. Richie, and she's a marketing veteran. She comes from Girl Scouts USA, where she's been the chief marketing officer and senior vice president for three years. More on Richie from hoopfeed. And from Sports Illustrated. ...more

NCAA Women's Basketball Coaching: Why Developing Expertise At Mid-Majors Is Best For The Game
by Swish Appeal
posted April 22, 2011 at 1:08am

Brian McCormick, author of Cross Over: The New Model of Youth Basketball Development who writes at Brian McCormick Basketball (developyourbballiq.com), is an experienced coach and development expert whose basketball insights about everything from yout...more

Mountain running trips for Easter
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted April 21, 2011 at 9:42pm

When I talked with Irish mountain-runner Moire O Sullivan a few weeks back, she gave me some tips for her favourite places to run when she at home in Ireland. Tibradden, Ireland"To start off, I’d head straight to the Phoenix Park in Dublin. Having visit...more

LA Lakers do a PSA on name-calling (Kobe Apology Part 3)
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted April 21, 2011 at 9:34pm

Okay, I hope this will be my last post about Kobe Bryant’s anti-gay slur. The LA Lakers have made a public service announcement featuring Kobe and several other players condemning name-calling of any kind. You can see it here.Good for the Lakers for do...more

Florida State's Cori Close to coach UCLA
by They're Playing Basketball
posted April 21, 2011 at 9:05pm

ESPN is reporting that UCLA is set to name Cori Close as UCLA's new coach within a half hour.Close has been associate head coach at Florida State for the past seven years. She is characterized as "one of the best offensive minds in the country."Before tha...more

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