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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Her Sports Rounds: The best of women’s sports
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogosphere, Faces in the Crowd, Her Sports Rounds, Jane Schonberger, Joe McKeown, Kris, Lorena Ochoa, Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, Media Day, Presidential nominee, Pretty Tough, Sara Hall, Senator McCain, She Loves Sports, Sheila Weaver, Stanford University, The Final Sprint, The Trouble with Emily Dickinson, Title IX, Title IX blog, V is for victory, Women Like Sports, Women's Hoops Blog, Women's Sports Foundation on October 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
V is for Victory… can do better
Posted in Campaigns, Feminism, From the blogosphere, Marketing and Advertising, Sports Programs, Title IX, tagged contest, creativity, Title IX, transparency, URL, V is for victory, victory, Vis4victory, Women Like Sports, Women's Sports Foundation, WSF, YouTube, YouTube channel on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Celebrate Columbus Day at the Sports Museum
Posted in Events, Famous Women in Sports, Softball, Special offers, Sports Headlines, tagged autographs, basketball clinic, Billie Jean King, Columbus Day, fans, Jennie Finch, Jessica Mendoza, John Starks, Kym Hampton, New York Knicks, Sports Museum, USA Softball Team, Women's Sports Foundation, Women's Sports Hall of Fame on October 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Jennie Finch, Jessica Mendoza and the USA softball team will be at the Sports Museum in New York city this Monday. They will be meeting sports fans and signing autographs from 11am-1pm. This is a unique opportunity, so if you’re in the area and have off on Columbus day (or even if you don’t) you [...]
College Sports Council: SIT DOWN!
Posted in Sports Headlines, Sports Programs, tagged bias, College Sports Council, CSC, Eric Pearson, female athletes, gender, gender and sports, John Cheslock, male athletes, men, opposition, participation, research, sports, Title IX, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal Law, women, Women's Sports Foundation on September 25, 2008 | 8 Comments »
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 [...]
WSF Sportswoman of the Year Contest
Posted in Contests, Famous Women in Sports, Sports Headlines, Sportsmanship, Uncategorized, tagged Allison Fisher, Anastasia Davydova, Anastasia Ermakova, Ashley Fiolek, Candace Parker, Hannah Nielsen, Hayley Wickenheiser, individual, Jessica Mendoza, Kerri Walsh, Lindsey Vonn, Lorena Ochoa, Mao Asada, Marta Vieira da Silva, Misty May-Treanor, Nastia Liukin, Natalie Coughlin, New York City, Patty Cisneros, Rebecca Ward, Sandra Kiriasis, Sportswoman of the Year, team, Venus and Serena Williams, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Waldorf-Astoria, Women's Sports Foundation, Yelena Isinbayeva on August 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Women’s Sports Foundation is holding a poll/contest on their Web site to select two champion athletes (one team, one individual) for their Sportswoman of the Year Award. Award winners will be announced on October 14, 2008, and honored at the Annual Salute to Women in Sports Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York [...]
Women’s Sports: “Future Lies In Digital Universe”
Posted in Sports Headlines, Sports Journalism, tagged CEO, digital universe, Donna Lopiano, media coverage, sports, Sports Journalism, women's sports, Women's Sports Foundation, WSF on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
41-Year-Old Torres Attempts Fifth Olympic Qualifier
Posted in Famous Women in Sports, Sports Headlines, Swimming, tagged 41-year-old, age, bionic woman, Dara Torres, drug tests, freestyle, gender, Olympic gold medal, Olympic qualifier, Olympics, swimmer, Swimming, Wendy Lewellen, Women's Sports Foundation on June 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It has been studied and confirmed over and over again: age and gender each have a significant impact on the cardiac response to exercise. But for some reason, it doesn’t seem to apply to Dara Torres, a 41-year-old mother who is attempting to qualify for her fifth Olympic Games on June 29-July 6 at the [...]
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