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Courtney Szto (Resident_Badass)

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Canada

Resident_Badass's Favorite Sports:

Golf, Ice Hockey, Muay Thai, Tennis, Curling, Inline Skating, Kayak, Paintball, Yoga

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The Rabbit Hole

Blogger Courtney Szto is a Master's Student studying the socio-cultural aspects of sport, physical activity and health (or as some call it Physical Cultural Studies). Bachelor's in Sport Management. Former tennis coach & ropes course facilitator.

Can golf courses be sexist?

Photo from Cylex Signs.Dr. Heather Hundley seems to think so. Well not the golf courses themselves, but the people who create them. I came across Dr. Hundley's article, Keeping the Score: The hegemonic everyday practices in golf, a little while ago ...[Read on]

The Heteronormativity of the Nike's Women's Marathon

I was driving to work one morning when I heard on the radio an ad for the Nike Women's Marathon. Not unusual since Nike and running go hand-in-hand. What caught my attention about this particular ad was when the female voiceover said something...[Read on]

You want equality in women's tennis? Give them the last match!

Kim Clijsters & Novak Djokovic. Photo from the Bleacher Report. Women's tennis is supposedly the world's premier professional sport for women, and in a lot of ways it is. The women get to play on the same courts, in the same stadiums, with th...[Read on]

Fair Ball: The Orientalism of Canada going to Uganda to play baseball

Photo from the Toronto Star. Recently, Sportsnet aired a 30 minute documentary about the Canadian little league team flying to Uganda to play a World Series game that never occurred called Fair Ball. The documentary and the team were sponsored by R...[Read on]

Golfing Undercover: What men really think of women on the course

Photo from Golf DigestIn this month's issue of Golf Digest, "Woman Undercover" details an interesting social experiment conducted with professional LPGA player, Kim Hall, and Golf Digest writer, Peter Finch. The two of them golfed at five different ...[Read on]

CrossFit: A total institution?

"Our speciality is not specializing." Photo from Fit-Zaang. Exercise, at its roots, was created as a form of discipline. To discipline the human body, to protect and defend one's nation. Disciplined to be a productive citizen. Disciplined in order...[Read on]

Mountain bikes for those with disabilities

Tara Llanes and her new wheels. Photo from CBC. It is not often that I get to write about something that actually brings a smile to my face on this blog so I relish those opportunities when they arise. Yesterday morning, while watching the news I...[Read on]

Black Athletes: Pawns in a White-man's game?

This post is a book review inspired by Dr. Earl Smith's book, Race, Sport and the American Dream (2007).Race, Sport and the American Dream argues two overarching points:1.) that the American Dream of hard work leading to fame and fortune has been extremel...[Read on]

How the gym space stifles physical activity

Image: addhelium.com A couple of weeks ago, I walked past the window of my gym and saw every treadmill in use, every runner synchronized with the next, and all of their senses consumed by the iPod-television combination. It was unnatural. It was ...[Read on]

Football in no clothing is not football

Photo from culturemob. It's a sideshow! I thought that I had written all I had wanted to write about the Lingerie Football League in my inaugural post, The Lingerie Football League - Are you freakin kidding me?, but now that a LFL team has popped up in m...[Read on]

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Today on the Women's Sports Calendar:

NCAA Tennis Championships May 17 - 28: Dan Magill Tennis Complex	NCAA Golf Championships May 22 - 25: Vanderbilt Legends Club
WNBA Games May 22: 200 S Denver Ave Tulsa, OK 74103-5019

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