University of Oklahoma basketball player Courtney Paris is on the cover of Sports Illustrated with men’s player Blake Griffin. Both are named preseason All-Americans.
The headline of Sports Illustrated magazine’s basketball preview is “Double Team” (see to the right).
This is great news, and it’s awesome to see a woman right beside a man in Sports [...]
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According to The Nutz blog, it seems to be only what we look like, not so much how well we play…
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Check out this video of Donna Lopiano, CEO of the Women’s Sports Foundation. In this clip, she explains why media networks do not support women’s sports as much as men’s.
“It has no relation to public interest,” Dr. Lopiano says, “and our only hope lies in the digital universe.”
THANK YOU DONNA!
Like I said before, the only [...]
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Because my most popular post thus far (recieving over 2,000 hits) is that of Dara Torres, I feel compelled to announce that she has achieved what many have deemed impossible: on Sunday, she qualified for her fifth Olympic games, beating American-record holder, Natalie Coughlin by 0.05 for a spot on the
Apparently, she rose from the [...]
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When I was younger, I was an avid reader of Sports Illustrated for Women. To my recent surprise, I visited the SI for Women Web site and was shocked at what I found. This message from the editor:
“It is with especially deep sadness that we tell you the bad news: The December 2002 issue will [...]
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