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Jukin' the Stats: Complaint Alleges UNC Underreported Campus Sexual Assaults
by Title IX Blog
posted January 19, 2013 at 11:30am

In a complaint filed this week with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, a former associate dean at the University of North Carolina reportedly alleged that the university violated Title IX and other laws when the university counsel's of...more

This is not about Lance Armstrong
by After Atalanta
posted January 19, 2013 at 11:25am

OK. OK. I lied. I bullied you into reading this post and expressed a mistruth. This post is indeed about Lance Armstrong. Judge me as you see fit. But it's not some moral diatribe about ethics and truth and sportsmanship, blah, blah, blah.I didn't have a...more

A Letter to Lance Armstrong: A Fellow Pro Athlete’s Plea
by Ask Lauren Fleshman
posted January 18, 2013 at 1:04am

Dear Lance Armstrong, I’ve been in quite a state this week, ever since you announced you were going on Oprah and word got out about your impending confession. I’ve been pacing around the house, my insides at a continuous low boil, and pretty ...more

Everything in Moderation: Do we make good choices about our health?
by The Rabbit Hole
posted January 17, 2013 at 9:53pm

Photo from eurweb.comIt's the beginning of a new year, which means (a) your gym is probably packed with new people who you will see a few times and then never again, or (b) YOU are that person joining a gym. Everyone is talking about health these days, ...more

Financial Inequality, College Sport, and Title IX: Reflections on the NCAA Scholarly Colloquium
by Title IX Blog
posted January 17, 2013 at 9:46pm

I'm just back from the NCAA Convention, where I attended the Scholarly Colloquium for the first time in my capacity as a member of the board charged with running the Convention's annual academic conference. As it turns out, that first time will also be ...more

7 Cs That Make Coaches Happy
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted January 17, 2013 at 9:28am

Over the holiday season, I take a few days to reflect on what my teams and players have achieved (and still need to work on) in this first half of the season. I thought I would share with you the 7Cs that me and my fellow coaches are looking for (and hopi...more

MWIS Writer Shireen Ahmed Selected for The Best of Football Writing in 2012
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted January 16, 2013 at 8:29am

Shireen Ahmed's article "Off-Record but on-Field: Veil, Burka, Babushka or Bedsheet?" is selected as one of the Most Compelling writings on football. Congrats Shireen!Who is Shireen Ahmed: Shireen Ahmed is a frontline worker in Social Servi...more

Salma Hosseini- TaeKwonDo Instructor...in Kabul
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted January 15, 2013 at 7:53pm

BY: SHIREEN AHMEDI came across a wonderful site that presents a "portrait of a city through its working people". Completely normal yet amazing citizens living in Kabul, Afghanistan. Among some of the people chronicled is Salma Hosseini, a TaeKwonDo Instr...more

Easy Butternut Squash Soup Recipe
by Balanced Health and Nutrition
posted January 15, 2013 at 5:43pm

I recently had dinner at a new friend’s house. We met in childbirth class and we have infants about a week apart! Her husband wanted to “impress” me with his healthy culinary skills. (and he did!) Part of the dinner he served was this butternut squ...more

U.S. Olympians Trade Gold Medals For Golden Globes
by A Glam Slam
posted January 15, 2013 at 8:05am

Team USA’s golden girls and guys traded their patriotic threads for designer fashions at last night’s Golden Globe awards. Since the completion of the London Games, several Olympic athletes have remained in the style spotlight. They were covet...more

Middle East soccer associations campaign for women’s right to play
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted January 14, 2013 at 6:40pm

By James M. DorseyMiddle Eastern soccer associations have launched a campaign to put women’s soccer on par with men’s football in a region in which a woman’s right to play and pursue an athletic career remains controversial and at a time...more

University of Texas’s Bev Kearney forced to resign. Did she do wrong?
by carabyrd
posted January 13, 2013 at 10:06am

Whispers and rumors began to surround University of Texas’s women’s track and field coach, Bev Kearney in November when she was placed on administrative leave.  Many questioned what she could have possibly done.  Kearney had led the ...more

Do we have the stomach for football?
by Fair Game News
posted January 12, 2013 at 7:52pm

By Laura Pappano News that NFL veteran Junior Seau, who committed suicide last year, suffered from degenerative brain disease was hardly a revelation. We paused, saddened, on Thursday when the National Institutes of Health announced that Seau’s br...more

Title IX Law Review Scholarship Roundup
by Title IX Blog
posted January 12, 2013 at 7:39pm

Several law review articles related to Title IX have been published in recent weeks. Here is a summary.In the recent issue of the Williamette Sports Law Journal, author Zachary Anderson examines the University of Nebraska-Omaha's recent decision to drop i...more

A Glam Slam’s 2012 Fashion “Hits” & “Misses” In Sports
by A Glam Slam
posted January 12, 2013 at 7:18pm

There has long been a close connection between fashion and sports. Both genres continually borrow from one another as evident in the team uniform updates, runway trends and athlete/designer relationships that emerge each year. In 2012, special events like...more

Notre Dame recruit's younger brother collapses during basketball game, passes away
by They're Playing Basketball
posted January 12, 2013 at 10:53am

Twelve-year-old Jeremy Nelson collapsed during a basketball game in suburban Atlanta Saturday night, and later died. He is the younger brother of Notre Dame signee Kristina Nelson.Numerous college and high school basketball players have expressed shock, s...more

The Biggest Choosers? Individual choice and the bio-power of the 'obesity epidemic'
by The Rabbit Hole
posted January 11, 2013 at 9:31am

In his seminal text Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault introduced the notion of disciplinary confinement as a form of power in society.  This way of using power has been gradually evolving since the eighteenth century when power became less perso...more

Promotions & Additions to Start New Year (@NACWAA blog)
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted January 11, 2013 at 9:21am

Author:  NACWAA Brandi Guerinot has been promoted from assistant director for compliance to associate director for compliance at Boston College.  Keri Thoman has been promoted to assistant athletic director, student-athlete...more

Court Says Duke's Response to Student Rape Was Not Deliberate Indifference
by Title IX Blog
posted January 10, 2013 at 7:41pm

Last month a federal district court in North Carolina dismissed a Title IX claim against Duke University, which stemmed from the 2007 rape of a female student by a non-student that occurred at an off-campus party hosted by other students.  The plaint...more

Resort Review: Cypress Mountain
by Westbound Boarder
posted January 10, 2013 at 5:55pm

If you followed the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC at all, you’d know that many of the ski/snowboard events took place at Cypress Mountain.  Given that I’m an Olympic junkie (I covered the 2010 Winter Olympics extensively on Westbo...more

My Resolutions Made Easier with My Fitness Pal
by Pretty Tough
posted January 10, 2013 at 3:55pm

The My Fitness Pal “Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker” app is an easy and efficient way to keep ambitious New Year’s resolutions in check. The app is available on iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Android, and Windows 7 devices. The best part? I...more

Don't you dare complain!
by Title IX Blog
posted January 9, 2013 at 10:35pm

We mumble and grumble--sometimes more loudly than at other times--when schools get praised by the community and media outlets for taking some action that appears to be making a situation better for female student-athletes (new softball field, addition of ...more

Plan to Attend 2013 Binge Eating Disorder Conference in March
by Balanced Health and Nutrition
posted January 9, 2013 at 10:31pm

The Binge Eating Disorder 2013 National Conference will be coming to Bethesda, Maryland this March 8-10, 2013. Binge eating disorder affects more than 8 million people — more than anorexia and bulimia combined. It’s often not talked about so many...more

Musburger ramblings
by After Atalanta
posted January 9, 2013 at 10:19pm

I was compelled by the lure of being in the NYT to think critically about the comments play-by-play announcer Brent Musburger made about the girlfriend of Alabama QB AJ McCarron during the BCS Championship earlier this week. But since my comments didn't q...more

Moving Meditation (Byline to Finishline blog)
by Byline to Finish Line
posted January 9, 2013 at 7:50pm

Sitting in the stillness of the gratitude meditation, we were guided through some questions, including what we wanted to bring to the group. Silliness popped into my head. Yes. Silliness. It’s the only way I could describe what I would bring to a mo...more

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