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Panel Discusses State of Women's MMA; Issues Parallel Those of Most Women's Sports
by anngaff
posted May 1, 2009 at 2:57am

The conversation then turns to the not only the state of women's MMA but women's sports in general and how the pay scale is so different in each sport between the genders (except for tennis and golf, maybe), making it difficult for women to make it...more

Gender Verification Foolishness Over - Sarah Gronert Cleared To Play
by Black Tennis Pro's
posted May 1, 2009 at 12:00am

Sarah Gronert, GermanyAccording to the Metro.co.uk, Sarah Gronert, who was born with both male and female genitalia, has been cleared to compete as a woman.I honestly thought that this was one of the most extreme gender cases that I've heard in awhile. ...more

First Base...Person
by Women's Sports Blog
posted April 30, 2009 at 11:54am

Pursuit of Harpyness has an interesting discussion about gendered language in baseball.Although the post is semi-confined to the exclusionary nature of that language in male-dominatedfields, if you watch a lot of softball or women's basketball you will no...more

The Athlete as Role Model
by Pretty Tough
posted April 29, 2009 at 10:41pm

New York may be the hub of the publishing industry but each April, Los Angeles shows off its literary stuff at the LA Times Festival of Books. People of all ages flock to the sprawling UCLA campus to attend author events, panel discussions, storytelli...more

Delaware State cuts wrestling
by Title IX Blog
posted April 29, 2009 at 1:52pm

DSU announced yesterday that it is cutting its wrestling team due to economic issues, gender equity concerns, and issues around the team's academic performance.The last is a problem plaguing several DSU teams and will likely result in some NCAA sanctions....more

Equal Pay Day…not for female youth sport coaches!
by One Sport Voice
posted April 29, 2009 at 10:23am

The following information is taken from the National Women’s Law Center’s Campaign for Fair Pay. April 28, Equal Pay Day, marks the day in 2009 when the average woman’s wages will finally catch up with those paid to the average man in 2008. In the...more

Female Coaches in Youth Sport: You Gotta Be Tough
by One Sport Voice
posted April 28, 2009 at 6:18pm

I thought a triad of blogs about female coaches in youth sport was appropriate given the amount of emails I received and blogs written in response to this topic. It seems like there is a need to continue the conversation. To that end, the video of Mic...more

Fair pay and athletics: The gender disparities continue to loom
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted April 28, 2009 at 4:45pm

This post is part of an initiative by the National Women’s Law Center in honor of Equal Pay Day — “voices are rising up across the web in support of fair pay for women.” All day, they’ll be promoting blog posts about fair pay and tweets with the...more

News: some you need, some you don't
by Athletic Women Blog
posted April 28, 2009 at 1:28pm

Janet Raloff of Science News reports on the recent findings concerning oral contraceptives and female athletes. To some of you, her account may be more intelligible than the one I referenced last week. If so, it's worth more space here to direct attention...more

Sportscasters Ignore Women’s Golf
by Ladies on the Tee
posted April 28, 2009 at 11:35am

(and Other Women’s Sports) This article has been a long time in the making. I have been stewing on this for months, if not years! The more I think about it the more I need to vent. What is it? IT is the abysmal amount of TV and print media coverage for...more

Saudis clamp down on women's gyms
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted April 27, 2009 at 7:49pm

Many women-only sports clubs and gyms in Saudi Arabia face closure under a government clampdown on unlicensed premises, Saudi media have reported.Women's gyms have become popular in the ultra-conservative Muslim country where the sexes are heavily segrega...more

Maine cuts two sports
by Title IX Blog
posted April 27, 2009 at 5:39pm

The University of Maine is cutting two varsity sports this year: women's volleyball and men's soccer. Economic woes are behind the cuts. Losing these two programs will save the department, which is being required to participate in its share of the school'...more

When Athletes Speak, Fans Will Listen…and Talk Back
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted April 27, 2009 at 1:27pm

WNBA player, Chantelle Anderson, has joined the blogosphere and her blogs often take on some really interesting topics beyond the mundane daily record of personal experiences characteristic of many athlete blogs or Tweets. Rather than shying away from hot...more

MIT cutting 8 sports
by Title IX Blog
posted April 25, 2009 at 1:07pm

MIT announced yesterday that it will cut eight varsity sports from what was once the largest (tied with Harvard at 41 sports) roster of intercollegiate sports in the country.Citing current and forthcoming budget issues (the institution as a whole is looki...more

Inspiration: Dana's Run
by Women's Sports Nation
posted April 21, 2009 at 10:37pm

High School senior Dana Hughes, who will be attending the University of Connecticut on a full softball scholarship, suffered a life threatening brain injury and was unconscious for 3 weeks after a car accident where her good friend Shannon Quail was kille...more

Youth Sport Needs More Female Coaches
by One Sport Voice
posted April 21, 2009 at 1:19pm

A lot of my research is done in youth sport contexts, including examining the barriers that prevent females from entering into youth sport coaching. While the under representation of female coaches at the collegiate level is given attention (See Acosta ...more

(Podcast) WNBA’s Chantelle Anderson: blogging about female athletes, lesbians and her image in the sports industry
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted April 20, 2009 at 5:47pm

On Friday, I conducted one of my favorite interviews - an informed telephone conversation with Chantelle Anderson who plays for the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream. Chantelle touched on many different points in this interview, but this discussion was not cent...more

Stand with women ski jumpers today
by Pretty Tough
posted April 20, 2009 at 12:20pm

Did you know that ski jumping is the only event in the Olympic Winter Games that does not allow women to participate? The International Olympic Committee won’t let these international elite athletes jump in the upcoming Vancouver Games because the IOC ...more

Pakistani girls come to US with goal clearly in sight
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted April 19, 2009 at 4:19pm

Washington - A group of 10 Pakistani girls and young women managed to convince their parents that it would be a good idea to come to the United States to play football. The team members, between the ages of 12 and 21, are in Washington with three coaches ...more

The invisibility of female professional sports
by One Sport Voice
posted April 18, 2009 at 2:36pm

This might seem insignificant to some, but it is another example of how female professional sports are erased. Last night I was at the Sugarland concert at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Near the end of the concert Sugarland played a cover...more

What do online biographies of NCAA coaches tell us?
by One Sport Voice
posted April 17, 2009 at 12:00pm

I’m posting some information on a research project poster that a graduate student, myself and a colleague developed for the Sport, Sexuality, & Culture Symposium held March 18-20, 2009 at Ithaca College. Examining Online Intercollegiate Head Coaches�...more

Quinnipiac Volleyball Sues
by Title IX Blog
posted April 17, 2009 at 11:55am

Quinnipiac University volleyball players are challenging the university's recent decision to cut their sport. Their lawyers at the ACLU filed suit this week in federal court, arguing that the loss of women's volleyball is a clear violation of Title IX b...more

Roundup of Recent Harassment Cases
by Title IX Blog
posted April 15, 2009 at 1:11pm

Here are summaries of the four most recent federal court decisions in cases involving Title IX and sexual harassment. All four are favorable to the plaintiffs. The federal district court in Arkansas denied the Fayetteville School District's motion to d...more

Fired University of Hawaii basketball coach files retaliation suit
by Title IX Blog
posted April 14, 2009 at 12:06pm

Via Helen at WHB I learned that Jim Bolla, the former women's basketball coach at the University of Hawaii, recently filed a lawsuit challenging his termination as unlawful retaliation under Title IX. UH fired Bolla for cause last week after investigatin...more

Got Milk? Dara (I mean Dairy) Torres does.
by One Sport Voice
posted April 13, 2009 at 7:47pm

The ‘Got Milk?’ campaign has a long history of featuring celebrities and athletes who encourage consumers to increase milk consumption for improved health. Athletes for example such as, Diana Taurasi, Steve Nash, Serena Williams, and David Beckham h...more

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