WomenTalkSports.com is an online network that connects the very best blogs relating to women's sports. http://womentalksports.com/items/category/49 Wed, 16 May 2012 18:03:05 -0400 ...http://www.womentalksports.com/displayitem.php?item_id=1341006Tue, 08 May 2012 18:44:29 -0400 ...http://www.womentalksports.com/displayitem.php?item_id=1340301Tue, 08 May 2012 01:14:39 -0400 ...http://www.womentalksports.com/displayitem.php?item_id=1310270Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:47:33 -0400All sports have inherent danger, some more than others. And then you have extreme sports which are attractive due to the inherent risk factors. There is something for everyone. Regardless of the sport at some point you will face fear.  The question is not about when you will face fear but how to respond to fear once you are faced with it. Danica Patrick, a former Indy car driver, has moved over to NASCAR in a big way. After a horrific crash which totaled her car during a qualifying race for the Indy 500, she walked away with minor injuries. As you know, fear is an individual thing. The secret to how fear is created has to do with your emotions. Your response to an event determines whether, or not, you experience fear. Watching video of Danica’s crash is telling. She was probably driving 200mph when her car slammed into a safe barrier wall. The cam view inside her car revealed a matter-of-fact trained response. Crashing at high speeds happens. From previous experience she...http://www.womentalksports.com/items/read/1179/1296297Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:33:49 -0500 ...http://www.womentalksports.com/displayitem.php?item_id=1295664Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:56:09 -0500Tweet My favorite heroines — sports or otherwise — aren’t women who succumb to the cookie-cutter ideal of  being “role models” but who relish instead stepping outside acceptable boundaries to discover the world as it is, and reshape it, even a small bit, to their ambitions and will. Sally Jenkins on Danica Patrick: “I’ve always liked Patrick a lot, because she owns herself. Her image and sexuality belong to no one. They are nobody’s property but hers, to do with as she pleases, and she reserves the right to play bait-and-switch with them. She’s an expert self-promoter, with as much control in that area as she has over a car. For all of the discussion about her risque Go-Daddy commercials, they are all suggestion and little exposure, with a lot of zipper sounds but not a lot of skin. Off camera, she’s firmly married and very private. Good for her. “As an athlete, she has no political or social agenda, she’s...http://www.womentalksports.com/items/read/964/1293707Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:38:00 -0500 ...http://www.womentalksports.com/displayitem.php?item_id=1293718Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:40:00 -0500 ...http://www.womentalksports.com/displayitem.php?item_id=1292422Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:37:58 -0500The 54th running of the Daytona 500 kicks off the 2012 Sprint Cup series and the start of a new season of stock-car racing.  Forty-three of the top drivers in the world will compete in “The Great American Race,” NASCAR’s biggest, richest and most prestigious event. While the Daytona 500 is a huge motor racing event on its own, it is made even larger this year because of the debut of Danica Patrick, the country’s most popular female race driver, who becomes just the third woman to take the green flag. It might seem intimidating to have the eyes of the world watching, but Patrick knows a bit about life in the fast lane. Over the past seven years, the diminutive driver has become one of the biggest brands in motor racing. In her rookie year in the IndyCar Series, she finished fourth in the Indianapolis 500, open-wheel racing’s premier event, and even held the lead late in that race. After racing full-time in the IndyCar Series, Patrick now makes the swi...http://www.womentalksports.com/items/read/5/1290513Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:46:00 -0500 ...http://www.womentalksports.com/displayitem.php?item_id=1284168Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:07:27 -0500