…Because I Played Sports

Last weekend, the NCAA held a student leadership conference in La Jolla, CA (The athletes who attended are so lucky!).
It seems as if the NCAA is taking extra strides to get student feedback on NCAA services and support (good move!).
Below is a video from their conference. Also, check out this Double-A Zone blog post about [...]

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The Women’s Sports Foundation came out with an incredibly interesting report yesterday, which could be the most accurate description of college sports’ participation patterns to date.
The report even made The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, indicating its overall importance to society.
While more women are participating in recent years than ever, the report, entitled Who’s Playing [...]

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This morning, I read on Marie Hardin’s Sports, Media and Society blog that sports writer Mary Garber died over the weekend at the age of 92.
As far as can be determined, she was the first full-time woman sportswriter at a daily newspaper in the country, and she certainly had the longest career.
Mary Garber is  well-known [...]

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In today’s issue of USA Today, we earned an entire section of the paper. Its title: “Women in Sports.”
I almost jumped out of my chair when I started reading. Seven complete pages of content and photos of women who have completed milestones in sport.
The cover article is particularly interesting.
Heather Tucker published a groudbreaking article in [...]

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Check this out - found it on Women Like Sports blog.
As part of its Pan-European ‘Here I am’ campaign, in which Nike strives to inspire a new generation of women to experience the impact of sports on life, Nike is launching a series of animated films featuring five young female European athletes. Each film shows [...]

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About a week ago, Erica Ortiz e-mailed me to let me know that she picked me as one of her top 5 favorite blogs for Blog Day 2008. I was honored and thanked her for reading my blog.
Interested in her career, I checked out her site, Horsepower and Heels, and was immediately impressed at her [...]

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I came across and commented on a blog post that pissed me off today. Here we have a guy named Wendell Wallace who writes a blog called The Arena, where he expresses his opinions about sports. Unfortunately, they’re not exactly the opinions everyone wants to hear.
Yesterday, Wendell posted about the USA Women’s Softball team, who [...]

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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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Check out the size difference between ESPY winners Candace Parker and David Beckham. Parker was awarded “Best Female Athlete” and Beckham was awarded “Best Male Athlete.”
I thought this picture from a recent USA Today article was priceless. Special thanks to Rob Mars from Athletic Women Blog for calling attention to it.
I seriously wish that in [...]

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A junior basketball star from Houston Texas is turning heads in the sports arena. At only 16 years of age, Brittney Griner is leading her area in scoring, blocked shots, dunks, and being tall (she stands at 6′8″). Her dunks and blocks have virally exploded on the internet; you easily find videos of her posted [...]

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