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Ted Stevens Was Guardian Angel of Women in Sports
(WOMENSENEWS)--Published remembrances of my friend and sometime colleague Sen. Ted Stevens, who perished last week in a tragic plane crash in Alaska, haven't said much about his dedicated support of legislation that changed so much for women and girls in ...[Read on]
Women's Hoops Hoopla: UConn Champions, WNBA Draft & more
In case you’ve been living in a hole, here’s an update on what’s been happening in the world of women’s basketball. On Tuesday night, the UConn women finished out their perfect season by beating Louisville 76-54 and capturing the NCAA championshi...[Read on]
LJ, Cappie & Catch dominate All-WNBA team voting
LJ, Cappie & Catch Dominate All-WNBA Team Voting The WNBA today announced the All-WNBA teams, and it was an extremely close race for top vote getter, much like the MVP award itself was. Again, it came down to Seattle Storm star (and MVP winner&...[Read on]
WNBA’s economic struggles
The economy isn’t just hurting the everyday blue- collar workers, it’s also hurting the future of professional women’s basketball. It was brought to my attention by a friend to take a look at an article released on ESPN.com today, in regards to the ...[Read on]
Domestic Violence Week in Memory of Yeardley Love
Yeardley Love’s life was filled with promise. At 22 years old and just weeks away from graduation at the University of Virgina, she seemed to have everything going for her– a bright future with goals of becoming a lawyer, having her own family one day...[Read on]
Getting to know your new WNBA
With the Final Four upon us and the WNBA draft taking place next week, it’s time  to take a look at the new class of professional ballers. Last year was considered the deepest class in WNBA history. This year there isn’t as much depth but with roste...[Read on]
Bright Star – the new film from Jane Campion
Most directors are lucky to make one movie in their lives that moves people beyond words but in my book Jane Campion has made three — An Angel at My Table, The Piano and now Bright Star.  When I first saw An Angel at My Table I remember loving it but n...[Read on]
Player goes from intern to tryout with WNBA’s Sun
Since I’m originally from Connecticut, women’s hoops is a big deal (have you heard of a li’l school called UConn?). Well, I still read the Hartford Courant with some regularity and loved the story I read today about a University of Vermont student...[Read on]
Yeardley Love: An Angel Remembered
Yeardley Reynolds Love, 22, of Cockeysville, Md. and a member of the University of Virginia women’s lacrosse team was found dead in her apartment in Charlottesville, Virginia, early Monday morning, the apparent victim of a homicide. In custody and charg...[Read on]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
One of my latest obsessions has been the books by the late Stieg Larsson which begin with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo which when published in Sweden where Larsson was from was called “Men Who Hate Women.”  The trilogy of books were released after...[Read on]
Kawasaki’s Green Goes Pink
by :  Jenna Goldberg We all love action sports, and sometimes that passion drives us to do challenging and borderline- psychotic things. Take for instance, running a 24-hour motocross marathon, helping riders of all ages to learn to ride a dirt bike, re...[Read on]
Honda Award Winners - Best Female Collegiate Athletes
For the 24th consecutive year, Honda has honored the most outstanding female collegiate athletes in the nation with the Collegiate Women Sports Awards. Winners are selected in each of the 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports by a panel of more than 1,000 NCAA a...[Read on]
Newsflash: Women can direct movies
Lone Scherfig The NY Times takes a look at some of the films generating buzz at Toronto and lo and behold women directors are really making a mark this season.  In general, women directors have a higher presence at film festivals.  Festivals try and ge...[Read on]
Megan Fox on Feminism, Sexuality and How Hollywood Treats Women
I basically dismissed Megan Fox as a pretty, not very smart young woman trading on her sexuality to become a movie star.  I saw the first Transformers film and thought she and the film were terrible.  But I did get interested when she was cast in Jennif...[Read on]
A first hand report from Comic-Con
Abigail Tarttelin attended Comic-Con with Schrodinger’s Girl a film she is in.  Women & Hollywood asked her to write up her impressions of the offerings that we will be seeing on our TV screens this season. Hello Women and Hollywood Readers, This is ...[Read on]
Six screen goddesses who transformed femininity through film
Beautiful. Smart. And sometimes dangerous. These women singlehandedly transformed female roles on the big screen. Who can forget Elizabeth Taylor as the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra or Katharine Hepburn as the British Methodist missionary in “The African ...[Read on]
Painful personal reminder to buckle up and drive safely this summer
August 2, 2010 is the five year anniversary of my son’s car accident. He was driving his Toyota RAV4, lost control on a canyon road and went over the embankment tumbling down 350 feet to the bottom. He came to rest upside down, his 6 foot body cinched ...[Read on]
The Best of the 90’s Chicks
The 1990s were a great decade. Between the fashion trends - The Rachel, anyone? - and the dope tunes, you could say the 90s were all that and a bag of chips (if you so chose to keep circulating that lingo, that is). And there was one nineties staple that ...[Read on]
Spotlight on Tammy Tibbetts: Empowering Liberian Youth
Whether it’s finding the perfect prom dress for a girl that can’t afford one, providing positive advice for girls celebrating their prom or their quinceañeras, fundraising and working towards a tuition-free school in Liberia, or finding ways to conti...[Read on]
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