The Women’s Professional Soccer league (WPS) held its allocation ceremony yesterday, announcing that 21 U.S. National Team players (the best women in the country) will be distributed among seven teams in the league, scheduled to debut in April. This is great news, and I’m excited for this league to draw some much-needed attention. In fact, [...]
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The Big Lead on Women’s Professional Soccer
Posted in From the blogosphere, Objectification in Sports Blogs, Soccer, Sports Headlines, Sports Journalism, tagged allocation ceremony, attractive, comments, fortitude, Juiced Sports, JuicedSportsblog, misogyny, sports blogs, sports blogs and comments, The Big Lead, U.S. National Team, women, Women's Professional Soccer, WPS on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wendell Wallace, Sports Blog on USA Softball
Posted in Objectification in Sports Blogs, Olympics, Softball, tagged female athletes, sports, sports and looks, sports blogs, sports blogs and women's sports, talent, The Arena, USA Softball, USA Women's Softball team, Wendell Walace, women, women's softball on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I came across and commented on a blog post that pissed me off today. Here we have a guy named Wendell Wallace who writes a blog called The Arena, where he expresses his opinions about sports. Unfortunately, they’re not exactly the opinions everyone wants to hear. Yesterday, Wendell posted about the USA Women’s Softball team, [...]
Another example of sports blogs and athletic misogyny
Posted in Basketball, Feminism, Objectification in Sports Blogs, Softball, Sports Journalism, Swimming, Volleyball, tagged Chen Xiaoli, Darra Torres, hot olympians, hot women, Jenny Finch, Kerry Walsh, misogyny, Misty May-Treanor, olympians, Olympic athletes, racism, sexism, sports blogs, women, women's sports on August 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Thanks for this one, Total Pro Sports. Seems like I’m getting more and more evidence every day. Included on this disgusting list are Jenny Finch, Kerry Walsh, Misty May-Treanor, Dara Torres, Chen Xiaoli. Ok, so all five are stars. Four are from USA. One is randomly from China, and hers has my favorite comment, “Almost [...]
More Proof of What Male Sports Bloggers Only Care About…
Posted in Famous Women in Sports, Feminism, Sports Journalism, tagged athletics, hottest women in sports, sports blogs, sports coverage, Sports Journalism, women, women athletes, women in sports, women's sports on July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
According to The Nutz blog, it seems to be only what we look like, not so much how well we play…
Women’s Football? Apparently so…
Posted in football, Sports Headlines, tagged H-Town Cyclones, James Henry, Lucretia Gray, National Women's Football Association, North, NWFA, Popper, Roxy Griffin, South, sports blogs, West Michigan Mayhem, Women's Football, women's sports on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a bit of news that you wouldn’t find on any mainstream sports blogs… Claiming the 2008 World Championship of Women’s Football, the H-Town Cyclones beat the West Michigan Mayhem 39-10. This is the first time in history the South has won the Women’s Football championship. Rassin McIntosh took home Offensive MVP (first picture, below) [...]
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Roundup: Dumbest things said on sports blogs
Posted in From the blogosphere, Objectification in Sports Blogs, Sports Journalism, tagged Afino, Big Slim Shade, Billie Jean King, Bulgaria, cheerleaders, Deadspin, degrading comments, dumb, dumb comments, dumb people, Kings girls, Kings tryouts, Laker girls, Larry Brown Sports, men, On 205th, Pay Gray, sports blogs, Title IX, Your Eyes Will Bleed on September 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
When the passion strikes me, I will occasionally be providing you with a roundup of some of the dumbest things I see on sports blogs. Apparently, some men feel the need to make degrading comments about women online. What’s even more entertaining (to me) is how much money they’re making off of content such as [...]
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