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Alaskan softball players cite inequities
by Title IX Blog
posted October 1, 2009 at 3:12pm

Can't believe Sarah Palin who, during her vice-presidential campaign, espoused the benefits of Title IX, let her home town get away with inequitable treatment of female student-athletes.But the Mat-Su School District, which includes the town of Wasilla, i...more

Lower court dismisses former AD's case against Lafayette College
by Title IX Blog
posted September 30, 2009 at 11:38am

Eve Atkinson sued Lafayette College in 2001, arguing that the college terminated her from the athletic director position, which she had held since 1989, in retaliation for her advocacy on behalf of women's athletics and Title IX. A federal court initiall...more

Are we dressing our girls out of sports?
by Fair Game News
posted September 28, 2009 at 6:46pm

By Katie Culver At the playground the other day a girl struggled to climb up a curved ladder after my son. She was wearing sandals. Her feet kept getting tangled in her dress. Another day, a brother and sister at the park with their grandparents were ...more

Will Maryland be the next to cut sports?
by Title IX Blog
posted September 27, 2009 at 8:24pm

Hopefully not, says athletic director Deborah Yow. But despite early predictions that the recession is over, the University of Maryland is exploring all scenarios that would enable to survive the current economic crisis.A recent report has outlined possib...more

Muslim angered by "unjust" headscarf sport ban
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted September 27, 2009 at 2:26pm

Apparently, the veil becomes the most symbolic issue when it comes to "Muslim Women" even in sports news. I am not very comfortable with this situation as it makes the unveiled Muslim women less and less visible. -SSK A Muslim basketball player is set to ...more

Gender: Your chance to learn more
by After Atalanta
posted September 25, 2009 at 12:04pm

Since the issue of intersexed individuals has arisen lately, I thought I would share these two opportunities to learn more. Especially because the Caster Semenya situation revealed just how little people seem to know. Granted, because intersex is an umbre...more

Does ‘New Media’ Bring New Attitudes Toward Women’s Sports?
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted September 24, 2009 at 4:19pm

Marie Hardin, Ph.D., is the associate director for research in the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State University and will be a panelist for the Tucker Center Distinguished Lecture Series on social media and women’s sport. Do...more

Acosta & Carpenter on why it’s nonsense-talk that females want male coaches, why women’s teams shouldn’t be the Lady (fill in the blank) — and more
by Fair Game News
posted September 24, 2009 at 1:22pm

By Laura Pappano and Lauren Taylor R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter, professors emerita at the City University of New York’s Brooklyn College and co-authors of a book on Title IX, have collected data on women’s roles on – and off – the f...more

Stats that Matter: Counting Women’s Access to Play and Power
by Fair Game News
posted September 23, 2009 at 3:16pm

By Laura Pappano In a sports culture in which OBP, ERA, PR, SOG, QB Ratings (among others) rule the landscape, Linda Jean Carpenter and R. Vivian Acosta track stats you won’t catch among box scores, but that have served a generation: Women’s access...more

Focus: Women's sports and social media
by Sports, Media & Society
posted September 23, 2009 at 1:05pm

Research in the Curley Center has recently turned to sports and social media -- especially in relationship to the opportunities and challenges for coverage of women's sports. The Tucker Center at the University of Minnesota is also focusing on this import...more

Movie review: License to Thrive
by Title IX Blog
posted September 23, 2009 at 12:41pm

The people at Women Makes Movies very kindly sent us a copy of License to Thrive: Title IX at 35. Despite our best intentions, we had not been able to catch a viewing of it when the documentary was making the rounds in New England last year.A lot of inter...more

No clear answer from IOC for women ski jumpers
by Pretty Tough
posted September 22, 2009 at 12:37pm

The fight to include women’s ski jumping has been going on for a while. After all the controversy, it seems the IOC has a responsibility to help this sport grow and with minimal effort and cost they can do it. Many sports have been added to the Olympi...more

Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Title IX (Part 1)
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted September 21, 2009 at 10:10pm

Photo credit: Combined logos of Facebook.com, Myspace.com, Twitter.com So another assignment for the class that I’m taking is to post at least once/week about my experiences with groups, conversations, and other opportunities on MySpace, Facebook and...more

New Brunswick girls’ ice hockey team says no to homophobia
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted September 21, 2009 at 2:37pm

Here is a great story about a high school girls’ ice hockey team in New Brunswick, Canada. Two members of the team came out as lesbians to the rest of the team. The team supported them. However, as word spread around the league, the team received taun...more

Recession, health care, and roller derby
by After Atalanta
posted September 21, 2009 at 2:20pm

I was just talking to a friend the other day about how roller derby is such a hot topic in sport studies because it's a great venue for examining gender roles, subversion, aggression, alternative sport, sexuality, and a host of other things.And of course ...more

Weekend Gender Observations
by One Sport Voice
posted September 21, 2009 at 1:58pm

This past weekend I traveled back to Notre Dame (ND) for the Michigan State football game. I go back every other year to catch a game and see former colleagues. While I was there I observed a few things I had to share related to how females are marginal...more

NFLPA concern for “regular people”…Don’t forget hotel maids!
by Fair Game News
posted September 18, 2009 at 4:32pm

By Laura Pappano Obviously, it sounds like negotiation hoopla. Members of the NFL Players Association charged with forging a deal with the league (NFL owners last year voted to opt out of the present collective bargaining agreement) insist they are no...more

Myles Brand, 1942-2009
by Title IX Blog
posted September 17, 2009 at 6:40pm

Sadly, NCAA president Myles Brand died yesterday of pancreatic cancer. Christine Brennan has a nice tribute to him. Brand will hopefully be remembered for ensuring academic standards and civil and gender rights in intercollegiate athletics. He pressured s...more

Women's Sports News: Some follow-ups
by After Atalanta
posted September 17, 2009 at 2:59pm

In the wake of the leak to the press about some findings from the medical examination of Caster Semenya, Dave Zirin and Sherry Wolf (I am going to hear her talk tonight!) have another Nation column about the situation. They take to task the IAAF of course...more

Champion of diversity and academic reform: NCAA President Myles Brand dies at 67
by HoopFeed.com
posted September 16, 2009 at 6:42pm

Myles Brand, the first university president to head the NCAA and a champion of academic reform died Wednesday after battling pancreatic cancer this past year. Brand, a former Indiana University President, championed academic reform, fiscal responsibil...more

Criticisms of Serena turn racist
by Women's Sports Blog
posted September 15, 2009 at 3:01pm

That didn't take long. Don't blow any sanity-watchers points reading fan reaction to the Serena situation. Serious overreaction time is upon us, and The Big Scary Black Woman is at fault. Her behavior was truly shocking, yet it's unlikely that the s...more

Female jumpers: Whatcha talkin' about, Rogge?
by After Atalanta
posted September 15, 2009 at 11:47am

Well they put it much more politely, of course. But here is the letter by female ski jumpers basically asking for explicit answers as to why they have been excluded from the forthcoming winter Olympics.In addition to citing the human rights laws of Canada...more

California HS improves softball field after Title IX complaint
by Title IX Blog
posted September 15, 2009 at 11:23am

A reader sent me this good news out of California: the Torrance Unified School District has improved the softball fields at West High School after a Title IX complaint filed last fall cited the district with 20 possible violations. The district settled t...more

Social Media & Sport Apologies
by One Sport Voice
posted September 14, 2009 at 9:32pm

Discussion in the Tucker Center this morning was very lively around the topic of Serena Williams’ U.S. Open semifinal outburst, fine, and subsequent apology via her blog and Twitter account (also see picture here). I have a few other thoughts on Wi...more

Professor Semenya
by Athletic Women Blog
posted September 14, 2009 at 9:03pm

We have been getting an education of late; a new understanding, for some at least, of gender's equivocalness. Unfortunately, this has all come at the expense of Caster Semenya: a woman who is guilty of nothing (unless you consider running too fast a crime...more

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