Wow, talk about using women as accessories. The ones with the Bryan brothers are super awkward. I wo...more
posted 05/17/12 at 2:40am
on Olympic Hopefuls Hope Solo, Ryan Lochte & Serena Williams Cover Vogue Magazine
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.
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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"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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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