College Sports Council: SIT DOWN!

I read an interesting article this morning on the Wall Street Journal’s Law page about the Women’s Sports Foundation’s report on gender, money and sports. This WSJ article provides two unique perspectives: one from Title IX’s biggest opposer, the College Sports Council,  and one from an unbiased researcher. The major finding of the WSF report [...]

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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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Mary Garber, Thank you

This morning, I read on Marie Hardin’s Sports, Media and Society blog that sports writer Mary Garber died over the weekend at the age of 92. As far as can be determined, she was the first full-time woman sportswriter at a daily newspaper in the country, and she certainly had the longest career. Mary Garber [...]

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USA Today, female athletes, milestones and progress

In today’s issue of USA Today, we earned an entire section of the paper. Its title: “Women in Sports.” I almost jumped out of my chair when I started reading. Seven complete pages of content and photos of women who have completed milestones in sport. The cover article is particularly interesting. Heather Tucker published a [...]

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Nike “Here I Am” European Commercial

Check this out – found it on Women Like Sports blog. As part of its Pan-European ‘Here I am’ campaign, in which Nike strives to inspire a new generation of women to experience the impact of sports on life, Nike is launching a series of animated films featuring five young female European athletes. Each film [...]

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(Interview) Because She Played… Erica Ortiz, Professional Drag Racer

About a week ago, Erica Ortiz e-mailed me to let me know that she picked me as one of her top 5 favorite blogs for Blog Day 2008. I was honored and thanked her for reading my blog. Interested in her career, I checked out her site, Horsepower and Heels, and was immediately impressed at [...]

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Wendell Wallace, Sports Blog on USA Softball

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, [...]

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Women’s Sports: “Future Lies In Digital Universe”

Check out this video of Donna Lopiano, CEO of the Women’s Sports Foundation. In this clip, she explains why media networks do not support women’s sports as much as men’s. “It has no relation to public interest,” Dr. Lopiano says, “and our only hope lies in the digital universe.” THANK YOU DONNA! Like I said [...]

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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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Could Female Phenom Play in NBA???

A junior basketball star from Houston Texas is turning heads in the sports arena. At only 16 years of age, Brittney Griner is leading her area in scoring, blocked shots, dunks, and being tall (she stands at 6’8″). Her dunks and blocks have virally exploded on the internet; you easily find videos of her posted [...]

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