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Arizona State Edges Washington 57-53
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted January 29, 2012 at 12:21am

Image: GoHuskies.com HUSKIES LOSE: In an entertaining matchup, missed shots and missed FTs hurt the Huskies, losing 57-53 on Saturday. "In general, I thought our halfcourt defense wasn't good enough," McGuff said of his team allowing ASU to shoot 46.8 pe...more

Notre Dame's Big Stars and Big Plays Too Much For St. John's
by Swish Appeal
posted January 29, 2012 at 12:17am

Image: Kathy Kmonicek/AP Just the Facts, Ma'am: Devereaux Peters had 18 points, 15 rebounds, and five blocks, and Notre Dame withstood several Red Storm runs to knock off St. John's, 71-56. Skylar Diggins led all scorers with 24. For St. John's, Shen...more

Buffalo Girls - Child Boxers
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted January 28, 2012 at 10:12pm

How young is too young to fight?  Director Todd Kellstein says: "Their faces beam with youthful innocence. Like other young girls, they laugh and play, in spite of their hardscrabble existence. But on Saturday nights in rural villages throughout cen...more

Spotlight on the Anita White Foundation
by Women in Sport International
posted January 28, 2012 at 7:01pm

Tweet This morning I stumbled across another ground breaking women's sports group thanks to twitter. The Anita While Foudnation ("AWF") is a newly established organization based at the University of Chichester. According to their website, the aims of...more

Big Saturday Ahead in College Hoops
by They're Playing Basketball
posted January 28, 2012 at 6:55pm

One of today's 116 games is the "battle of the Bay," featuring surging Cal at #4 Stanford. The Bears were the last conference team to defeat the Cardinal, five years ago. Can they do it again?In other Pac-12 action, Oregon's civil war will play out its fi...more

Bodybuilding: A Facade of Strength
by The Rabbit Hole
posted January 28, 2012 at 6:51pm

Bodybuilder, Jasyln Hewitt. Photo from Courier Mail, Australia. Last year at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport I attended a presentation by Mike Maciejewski from the University of Iowa on the hyperreality of (male) bodybuilding cont...more

Stanford Cardinal vs. California Golden Bears Statistical Preview: How Can Cal Pull Off An Upset?
by Swish Appeal
posted January 28, 2012 at 6:47pm

C&R of the Stanford Women's Basketball Blog and Norcalnick of California Golden Blogs have already done a great job of previewing this afternoon's Cal - Stanford game with their two-part Q&A (Part 1 | Part 2). The Big Game is obviously a big game...more

National Girls and Women in Sports Day- February 1, 2012 - Go out and support women's sport!
by Women in Sport International
posted January 28, 2012 at 6:36pm

Tweet Don't you think it is time to celebrate women in sport? The National Association for Girls and Women in Sport ("NAGWS") is working hard to promote the 26th annual celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day in the United States schedule...more

Stanford-Cal Preview, Q & A Part II
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted January 28, 2012 at 3:03am

And now, here is NorcalNick from Cal Golden Blogs with his answers to C and R’s Q’s:  (Oh, check out his blog with his questions about Cal-Stanford WBB and our answers plus Scott from Stanford’s Rule of Tree. Very informative. And R...more

Stanford-Cal Preview, Q & A Part I
by Swish Appeal
posted January 28, 2012 at 3:02am

And now, in honor of the Big Game, C and R present the 158th annual Q & A with Nick from SB Nation's California Golden Blogs. He asks the Q’s, C and R answer them. (Secretly, we think he just wants our Stanford blog to mention his Cal blog, hop...more

Where is the Dominance in Women's Tennis?
by Sarah Hallett
posted January 28, 2012 at 2:57am

A new #1 or just more reshuffling?...more

Bowling Green State University Coach Curt Miller has mild stroke
by They're Playing Basketball
posted January 28, 2012 at 2:55am

Image: Jetta Fraser/Toledo Blade Scary - and during a game:The episode occurred late in the Falcons' 70-54 win over Eastern Michigan at the Stroh Center Sunday. Miller spoke with EMS workers at the game following the win, his 250th career victory at BG, ...more

Lifetime Lines Up Figure Skating Reality Series
by Pretty Tough
posted January 28, 2012 at 2:51am

Lifetime’s successful Dance Moms franchise is not only getting a spinoff with “Dance Moms: Miami,” but, according to THR ,  its also getting a sister show: “Ice Moms.“  With L.A.-based  Collins Avenue, the prod...more

San Diego Torero's Discipline Overwhelms Improving USF Dons Team In 68-50 Win
by Swish Appeal
posted January 28, 2012 at 2:41am

  Image:USDToreros.com Despite the lopsided 68-50 final score, the San Francisco Dons actually played relatively even with the University fo San Diego Toreros in the second half of last night's game at War Memorial Gym. But a persistent problem the...more

Title IX Retaliation Case Filed Against Jackson State
by Title IX Blog
posted January 28, 2012 at 2:37am

Denise Taylor, former women's basketball coach at Jackson State University, has reportedly filed a retaliation suit against the university in federal court. Her suit alleges that she was terminated with two years left on her contract in retaliation for ...more

Pantene Pro-V Teams Up With Olympic Swimmer Natalie Coughlin
by A Glam Slam
posted January 28, 2012 at 2:33am

Michael Phelps joined the P&G family in November when he became the global face of the Head & Shoulders brand. Fellow U.S. Olympic swimmer, Natalie Coughlin, will also go for gold in London with healthy hair in mind. At a press conference in NYC y...more

These Books May Open The Door To Your Team’s Success
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted January 28, 2012 at 2:22am

source I’m the first person to acknowledge that there are lots of folks who know a lot more about success, leadership, goal setting…or whatever thing it is that we try to impart on our teams.  Because of that, I read…a lot. ...more

Washington Easily Rolls Past Arizona 77-48
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted January 28, 2012 at 1:59am

Image:GoHuskies.com HUSKIES WIN: To McGuff, Thursday night was just a matter of UW making shots it didn't hit before. And the Huskies did that, winning 77-48 before 1,789 at Hec Ed. The team was obviously more comfortable playing at home and with the opp...more

Using Intuition to Improve Sports Performance
by Loren Fogelman
posted January 27, 2012 at 3:00pm

Whether you call it an inner sense, gut feeling, hunch, intuition, ESP it does not matter. They are one and the same. Even if you don’t believe in a sixth sense, you have one. You might as well develop it so you can use it to your advantage during crunch...more

To tweet or not to tweet?
by They're Playing Basketball
posted January 27, 2012 at 1:15am

North Carolina Coach Sylvia Hatchell banned twitter use for the Tar Heels. That distraction eliminated, the team has won two in a row.I understand where Hatchell is coming from. I cringe at some of the things I see young people put on twitter.Do you think...more

Winter X Games Underway; Skier Sarah Burke Honored
by Pretty Tough
posted January 27, 2012 at 1:13am

Sarah Burke’s friends took a slow ski down a darkened halfpipe at the Winter X Games on Thursday, saying goodbye to the skier who helped push their sports to the heights they are today. Burke, who would have been the defending champion in Saturda...more

Sudan’s Islamic Fiqh Council bans formation of womens soccer team
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted January 27, 2012 at 1:11am

January 23, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Islamic Fiqh Council in Sudan issued a fatwa (religious order) saying that it is forbidden for the country to create a womens soccer team, deeming it an immoral act.The religious authority said that any request made...more

Banning athletes from Twitter... good or bad strategy?
by HoopFeed.com
posted January 27, 2012 at 1:07am

A commenter on an article about North Carolina women’s basketball ban of Twitter usage provides a counter view: Sylvia Hatchell bans UNC women’s basketball team’s Twitter use By Michael Lananna | The Daily Tar Heel ...more

Top 10 Finalists Announced for College Hoops Senior CLASS Award
by Swish Appeal
posted January 27, 2012 at 1:02am

In November, 30 candidates for this season's Lowe's Senior CLASS Award were released. Now that list is down to 10 and voting began yesterday. Votes from the public count as 1/3 of the player's total score with the remaining 2/3 of the vote going to NCAA...more

Possible Progress In Castle Rock Title IX Complaint
by Title IX Blog
posted January 27, 2012 at 1:00am

This past week's meeting which would have addressed the Title IX complaint against the Castle Rock school district (Washington) was postponed until next month. But administrators say they are taking steps to remedy some of the inequities upon which&n...;more

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