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Conference Secures Broadcast of HS Girls' Basketball Tournament Selection Show
by Title IX Blog
posted April 13, 2009 at 9:41am

Title IX and women's sports advocates frequently bemoan gender disparities in media's coverage of high school and college sports. So it was nice to read about a high school athletic conference (upstate New York's Section III) that leveraged its broadcast...more

Court Approves MHSAA's Agreement for Payment of Damages Award
by Title IX Blog
posted April 12, 2009 at 11:30am

The Michigan High School Athletic Association is on the hook for $6 million dollars after federal courts determined that its scheduling of girls' sports in the nontraditional seasons violated Title IX and the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. MHSAA...more

Court Dismisses Department of Education as Defendant in Single-Sex Education Suit
by Title IX Blog
posted April 11, 2009 at 6:36pm

As you may recall from this prior post, some parents in Kentucky are challenging the legality of the Department of Education's regulations that allow schools to offer single-sex education. The parents (represented by the ACLU) sued the Breckinridge Count...more

New York High School Sued Over Antigay Harassment
by Title IX Blog
posted April 11, 2009 at 12:17pm

Lambda Legal has filed suit against Indian River High School (in upstate New York) on behalf of Charlie Pratt and his sister, Ashley Petranchuk. The lawsuit alleges that Charlie suffered harassment and abuse at the hands of his peers while school officia...more

Virginia Madsen teams up for female ski jumper doc
by Pretty Tough
posted April 10, 2009 at 7:24pm

Actress Virginia Madsen (Sideways, Prairie Home Companion, The Haunting) and Title IX Productions, the film company she formed last year, are taking on a good fight - the right for women ski jumpers to compete in the Olympic games. Titled “Fighting Gr...more

Athlete or sex symbol? A false dichotomy
by Athletic Women Blog
posted April 10, 2009 at 12:51pm

WNBA star Chantelle Anderson has shared her thoughts about a much-debated topic: "Can a woman realistically expect [to] be seen as a great athlete AND a sex symbol?" Often I find that what she says agrees with my own views; and ultimately, we arrive at pr...more

Bigotry Is Irrational
by Women's Sports Blog
posted April 10, 2009 at 12:50pm

In a review of "Training Rules," the new documentary about Rene Portland's reign of terror at Penn State, David Hiltbrand of the Philadelphia Inquirer takes the film to task for not delving further into the 'causes' of Portland's homophobia. Because it ...more

Gender gap in outlook toward homophobia
by Sports, Media & Society
posted April 10, 2009 at 11:17am

A recent study by the Center for Sports Journalism, published in the Winter 2009 issue of the Newspaper Research Journal, found that most sports reporters believe homophobia is a problem in sports -- and more of a problem in men's sports than women's. Mos...more

If You Succeed…Don’t Try, Try Again…Coach Men!
by One Sport Voice
posted April 9, 2009 at 1:03pm

When a coach excels in coaching, for example women’s basketball, why are they “encouraged” or “challenged” to try their hand at coaching men? This pattern of comparison has happened a few times this year, ironically to two of the most succes...more

Title IX Blog in the news
by Title IX Blog
posted April 9, 2009 at 12:00pm

Ebuz--and the blog--got some press the other day in an article out of Birmingham that delved into what exactly President Obama was going to do with Title IX.No one knows of course. Most suspect he will not weaken the legislation as his predecessor did. An...more

What Makes an Effective Coach?….It’s NOT Gender!
by One Sport Voice
posted April 9, 2009 at 1:26am

Ok, ok so there were two male head coaches vying for the NCAA-I Women’s Basketball Championship in 2009—the first time since 1988. Kudos to Geno Auriemma and Jeff Walz, obviously they are effective coaches. Why was this media worthy? The media’s ...more

Challenges for girls playing HS baseball
by Women's Sports Nation
posted April 8, 2009 at 9:42pm

This article in the New York Times on girls participating in high school baseball was my inspiration for April's book, Stolen Bases. What's interesting about the article is the general assumption that baseball is for boys and softball is for girls. The sp...more

Thoughts on Training Rules
by Title IX Blog
posted April 8, 2009 at 10:12am

Unfortunately not ours as we have not yet been able to see the recently premiered documentary about former Penn State b-ball coach Rene Portland. (We hear it will be available for distribution this fall.)But Training Rules debuted this past weekend at the...more

Male Coaches
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted April 8, 2009 at 1:01am

I know what you’re thinking, what an odd title for a women’s sports blog! What does it mean to have two male coaches in the women’s final? was featured this afternoon on the NCAA Double-A Zone blog. The article opens restating the statistics r...more

Book Review: Nike is a Goddess
by Women's Sports Nation
posted April 8, 2009 at 12:59am

On Sunday, as I was driving down I-95 to see Sky Blue FC host the Los Angeles Sol in its inaugural WPS match, I was reflecting on all the women who challenged archaic and suppressive notions in the last century regarding athletics. Ten years ago, even co...more

Court Holds CA School District's Athletic Opportunities Violate Title IX
by Title IX Blog
posted April 6, 2009 at 3:48pm

A federal district court in California has ruled in favor of plaintiffs challenging the distribution of athletic opportunities at Castle Park High School in Chula Vista. The court reasoned that the current 6.7 percentage point disparity between the perce...more

NC county trying to comply
by Title IX Blog
posted April 6, 2009 at 11:24am

Not sure how reliable all the facts provided in this article are given that the writer(s?) thought that OCR stands for Office of Civil Review.It's probably true, though, that the county schools of New Hanover have a list of Title IX violations most of whi...more

Training Rules: A Powerful Examination of the “No Lesbian” Era of Penn State Women’s Basketball
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted April 5, 2009 at 11:48pm

Saturday night I attended the premiere of Training Rules, the Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker documentary about the Rene Portland “no lesbian” era of Penn State women’s basketball. The film premiered at the Philadelphia Film Festival to a full house w...more

UConn’s Auriemma Refutes Race Logic in Women’s Basketball
by One Sport Voice
posted April 5, 2009 at 8:36pm

I’m about to watch the Women’s Final Four and I’m looking forward to it. During the last couple weeks I’ve watched a lot of basketball—like many of you. When I watch I can’t help myself but watch with a critical eye. Examining sport with...more

Did Auriemma just bring up race on game day?
by anngaff
posted April 5, 2009 at 5:18pm

Did UConn coach Geno Auriemma just put a hole in UConn's seemingly impenetrable armor? In the video below, Auriemma decides to bring up race when talking about his team's opponent, Stanford. "White kids are always looked upon as being soft. &nb...;more

Congratulations future leaders!
by Title IX Blog
posted April 5, 2009 at 11:12am

We at the Title IX Blog offer our enthusiastic congratulations to our friend and fellow Title IX advocate Amy Wilson, a PhD candidate at University of Iowa. Amy was recently named, by NACWAA (National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics), one of fiv...more

UMass Cuts Skiing
by Title IX Blog
posted April 3, 2009 at 11:45pm

In an attempt to deal with budget woes, University of Massachusetts has cut its men's and women's ski teams. The teams, which did not offer scholarships, will become club teams. Rumors swirled at the Amherst campus that it was baseball in jeopardy. But y...more

A Lesson from the Past
by Athletic Women Blog
posted April 3, 2009 at 11:16am

Search Google for "sports memorabilia" (with the quote marks) and you'll get, as of today, 7,820,000 results. Obviously, there is a substantial market for sports memorabilia. How much of it, though, is dedicated to female athletes? From what I can tell, n...more

Supporting Women in Sport: Vote for your favorite GameChanger by April 15th
by anngaff
posted April 2, 2009 at 4:32pm

Have you heard about this yet? Nike has teamed up with Ashoka's Changemakers to hold a contest called "GameChangers: Changing the Game for Women in Sport" for social entrepreneurs around the world who are tackling the challenges facing women in sport. ...more

Peace Corps’ Jeffrey Chatellier uses social media to share stories of youth sports program in Africa
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted March 29, 2009 at 1:50pm

Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jeffrey Chatellier, a Peace Corps’ volunteer who helps run Ball for All Sport Charities for African women. I was put in contact with Jeffrey through the Sport for Change contest run by Nike and Ashoka. As I'...more

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