This past week, Billie Jean King was named “Global Mentor For Gender Equality” by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, the world’s leading global sport for women.
According to the Women’s Sports Foundation,
“The appointment of Billie Jean King to the new role brings together the sporting world’s [...]
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Layne Beachley is regarded as the best female professional surfer in history.
I was sad to read on Sporty Sistas that Beachley has felt the unending pressures of body image that her career has placed upon her.
This is big news since this is someone whose ego should be boosted - she’s won the World Championship [...]
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I read something interesting today on a popular male sports blog, With Leather.
This news certainly caught my attention, but this blogger’s opinion left me a bit less than thrilled. (Check out the picture to the right for example A)
According to the Wall Street Journal, because fewer and fewer men are going hunting, the sport has [...]
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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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The Women’s Professional Soccer league (WPS) held its allocation ceremony yesterday, announcing that 21 U.S. National Team players (the best women in the country) will be distributed among seven teams in the league, scheduled to debut in April.
This is great news, and I’m excited for this league to draw some much-needed attention. In fact, WPS [...]
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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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Posted in Olympics, Volleyball on Sep 11th, 2008
I Tivo’d this episode of Ellen last night to catch Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh. Found it on YouTube today.
Something I find particularly interesting is our culture’s obsession with them wearing baithing suits (barely nothing). And Ellen makes a point to bring up that Kerri smacks Misty May on the butt when they do well.
Is [...]
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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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