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Laura Pappano (FGN)


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Seeking equality on -- and off -- the field. The strong connection between organized athletics and power (political, economic, social) means sports have consequences far beyond the game. FairGameNews.com aims to challenge sex-stereotyped assumptions and practices that dominate sports -- and recognize that sports can be a tool for seeking equal treatment and fair play.

Mortarboard moment: Sharing advice I got from Gail Marquis, Olympic superstar and Wall Street success
By Ashleigh Sargent Gail Marquis is a powerful woman in sports, business, and volunteer foundation work.  She won a silver medal as a part of the 1976 U.S. Women’s Basketball Olympic Team and played basketball professionally in Europe, before ...[Read on]
Good surprise: Final Four basketball not just for top seeds anymore
        By Ashleigh Sargent and Mariah Philips What does it mean for a #5 seed team like Louisville to be in the Final Four? That favorite Baylor was out early? Women’s college basketball fans seldom get to watch a re...[Read on]
Women’s NCAA Basketball Bracket: Vote with your pen and then talk about it
By Laura Pappano It’s March Madness and that means one thing: Time to vote with your pen, and rehearse your friendly trash-talking zingers. The brackets are not just about the games, of course, but about the culture we create around the games. The...[Read on]
Women’s Review of Books is 30 (and more relevant than ever)
By Laura Pappano In the introduction to the 30th anniversary issue of The Women’s Review of Books, editor Amy Hoffman makes that point that — yes — this many  years later we still need a forum for thoughtful, intellectual, politica...[Read on]
NWSL seems to be learning from predecessors
By Laura Pappano It’s draft day for the National Women’s Soccer League. Don’t bother turning on your TV or tuning into sports radio.  Don’t expect NFL-style high drama. Thanks to the rise of cheap media, though, you can catc...[Read on]
Do we have the stomach for football?
By Laura Pappano News that NFL veteran Junior Seau, who committed suicide last year, suffered from degenerative brain disease was hardly a revelation. We paused, saddened, on Thursday when the National Institutes of Health announced that Seau’s br...[Read on]
Warm-up playlist: Time to get pumped up without being put down
By Ashleigh Sargent and Mariah Philips Get ready, it’s game day!!!!! As you prepare mentally and physically, you want help getting into your zone. Which songs pop up on the warm-up playlist? Chances are, messages of female empowerment and gender e...[Read on]
There’s sport in politics: College athlete to campaign operative
Rachael Goldenberg at campaign HQ   By Rachael Goldenberg Politics is often spoken about in sports metaphors. This election cycle, however, I found that the comparison not only fits, but is key to being a successful political...[Read on]
How would Lindsey Vonn fare against men? (Pretty well, I calculate)
By Laura Pappano When the International Ski Federation turned down Lindsey Vonn’s request to compete in the men’s downhill World Cup the explanation was wearily familiar – there are races for guys and races for women and they’re s...[Read on]
Nothing doing with the net: Lowering hoops 7″ is backwards idea
By Ashleigh Sargent UConn Women’s Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma believes the women’s hoops should be lowered seven inches from the standard 10-foot height (or 7.2 inches for 1972 when Title IX passed). Why? He says lower rims would yield gr...[Read on]