Detroit Shock headed to WNBA finals

The Detroit Shock defeated the New York Liberty tonight, 75-73 in game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals. According to the AP article, Deanna Nolan scored 21 points and Taj McWilliams-Franklin put in 19 to help the Detroit Shock reach the WNBA finals for the third straight season. This was definately an exciting game. The [...]

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Diversity in College Sports: WSF Report is “most accurate description to date”

The Women’s Sports Foundation came out with an incredibly interesting report yesterday, which could be the most accurate description of college sports’ participation patterns to date. The report even made The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, indicating its overall importance to society. While more women are participating in recent years than ever, the report, entitled [...]

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Jersey Shore’s Rampone Leads Women’s Soccer

This morning, Christie Rampone, captain of the U.S. Women’s Soccer team, led our country’s finest soccer players to compete in the preliminaries against Norway at 7:45am ET. But back in 1997, Christie Rampone was not the leader of Team USA. In fact, she was a senior at Monmouth University facing a very difficult decision. Before [...]

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Suspensions Handed Out for WNBA Fight

The wrath has been disclosed in response to Tuesday night’s mayhem fight in the WBNA. Detroit Shock assistant coach Rick Mahorn as well as 10 players were suspended for contributing to the fight that made headlines across the world. In total, four were ejected from the game on Tuesday night, and now eleven people received [...]

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Best Athlete: Show Her The Money!

Check out the size difference between ESPY winners Candace Parker and David Beckham. Parker was awarded “Best Female Athlete” and Beckham was awarded “Best Male Athlete.” I thought this picture from a recent USA Today article was priceless. Special thanks to Rob Mars from Athletic Women Blog for calling attention to it. I seriously wish [...]

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What Happened to Sports Illustrated (for Women)?

When I was younger, I was an avid reader of Sports Illustrated for Women. To my recent surprise, I visited the SI for Women Web site and was shocked at what I found. This message from the editor: “It is with especially deep sadness that we tell you the bad news: The December 2002 issue [...]

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Women Over 30: It’s Not Over

Once an athlete, always an athlete. You never lose it. Your entire life, you have certain values ingrained in you that make you who you are. Teamwork, goal-setting, discipline, competitiveness, leadership, fair play… we all know how it works. So when a friend of mine sent me a link for a feature by Curve magazine [...]

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Recent Grads: For Fitness and Fun, Play Rec Sports!

If you’re just out of college and you’re trying to get in shape but can’t seem to motivate yourself to get to the gym every day, I’ve got an answer for you. Try rec sports. As a former athlete, I didn’t really know what to do with myself when I realized it was all over. [...]

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Athletes: The Stress of College Decisions

The process of finding a place for you spend the next four years of your life can be incredibly overwhelming for a 17-year-old. The late junior/early senior years of high school and accompanying college application process is very stressful. The demands they put on the kids to not only have “honor-level” grades and top-notch SAT [...]

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My Decision to Save Women’s Sports

I’m just another not-so-typical-20-something just-out-of-college overly altruistic and obnoxious about it pretentious individual… who has no idea what tomorrow will bring. I moved about a year ago – three hours from home to the beautiful greater Washington, DC metropolitan area. I came to this place of one-too-many cocktails, suits and high heels because I wanted [...]

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