Her Sports Rounds: The best of women’s sports

Each week, I will be featuring Her Sports Rounds, a blog round-up of the best postings on women’s sports. From stories of the best athletes to funny YouTube videos and Presidential nominees’ comments on Title IX, the women’s sports blogosphere brought a lot of great information to the table this week! Sheila Weaver over at [...]

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Do female athletes prefer male coaches?

A study was recently conducted about the perceived gender-equity barriers in college coaching and administration. In this study, which will be available on the NCAA website in November, it was found that 51.7 percent of female student-athletes said they would prefer their coach to be a male, with only 40.7 percent preferring their coach to [...]

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V is for Victory… can do better

I’ve been seeing more and more of this V is for Victory campaign flying around the blogosphere. For example, it can be found on one of my favorite bloggers’ sites, Women Like Sports. The Women’s Sports Foundation is sponsoring/pioneering this campaign – which I completely support. (Hell – anything is something, right?) Essentially, these are [...]

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Women Fight for the Right to Wrestle

I came across this interesting article in the New York Times. It turns out wrestling has been a growing sport for women for the last twenty years. Girls are walking out onto the mat everyday across America, standing up, and utilizing their right to wrestle. According to the article, Women Want to Wrestle; Small Colleges [...]

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Florida Gulf Coast University pays $3.4 million to settle Title IX retaliation

Apparently, there was a huge Title IX case settled this week down at Florida Gulf Coast University. So much so – in fact – that you’re reading about it here, and you can find it on the Title IX blog, the Naples News and NBC. Essentially, a group of women including volleyball coach Jaye Flood [...]

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Apparently, I’m a man-hater

So it seems as if I’ve engaged myself in a little bit of a “war” with some proponents of the College Sports Council. To recap, I posted a few days ago on how the College Sports Council et. al. need to get their facts right before trashing Title IX and the recent Women’s Sports Foundation [...]

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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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Roundup: Dumbest things said on sports blogs

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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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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Torres Qualifies for Beijing

Because my most popular post thus far (recieving over 2,000 hits) is that of Dara Torres, I feel compelled to announce that she has achieved what many have deemed impossible: on Sunday, she qualified for her fifth Olympic games, beating American-record holder, Natalie Coughlin by 0.05 for a spot on the Apparently, she rose from [...]

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