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2010 Women’s Professional Soccer Draft
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The Women’s Professional Soccer draft takes place next week, on January 15th in Philadelphia at the NSCAA National Convention.
The folks at WPS have done a great job keeping fans in the loop and as we countdown to the big day, they’ve polled a number...[Read on] |
WPS fans: Mom’s the word this weekend
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The WPS is gearing up to celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend.
Saint Louis and Los Angeles are both marking the occasion with special ticket deals. The Athletica are giving ‘moms’ a free gift, even though they play on Saturday, while in ...[Read on] |
PUMA launches Project Pink
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On the heels of the biggest soccer event in the world (do you remember a little tournament in South Africa this summer called the World Cup?), sports brand PUMA is excited to announce a new initiative that links women’s soccer with a well-deserving caus...[Read on] |
WPS fans: Mom’s the word this weekend
| The WPS is gearing up to celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend.
Saint Louis and Los Angeles are both marking the occasion with special ticket deals. The Athletica are giving ‘moms’ a free gift, even though they play on Saturday, while in California t...[Read on] |
Who is a real fan? Try little girls with wash-off tattoos (and player stats at the ready)
| By Lindsay Rico
The game was over. Tied. But the excitement was just beginning. About 100 fans (and parents) leaned over steel barriers holding out soccer balls, jerseys, t-shirts—anything that would take ink —eager for the Boston Breakers an...[Read on] |
Our Game Magazine published by women soccer players
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A new women’s soccer pub, Our Game Magazine, was launched with some fanfare this week. Founded by Khaled El-Ahmad, Our Game is a women’s soccer magazine created by current and past players for players and fans all around the world.
With the mission ...[Read on] |
SWAN Day - Support Women Artists Now- is Tomorrow
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Tomorrow is the second annual SWAN (Support Women Arists Now) Day. The whole point of the day is to recognize and support women artists. Women & Hollywood will be supporting women artists tomorrow at the Boston screening of Hounddog.
The event is a pro...[Read on] |
Party like it’s 1999
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The year was 1999. A team of inspired women and a tournament of historic proportions captured the hearts and minds of an entire nation. I was just a young girl (well not that young) and one of 90,000 fans at the Rose Bowl watching the epic final and...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Lauren Tracy
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Lauren is a 21-year-old young director and has started a film fund for female filmmakers called X-Factor Filmmakers. Her next step is to launch a contest: The Best Female Directed Picture where you can win a netflix subscription to make people aware o...[Read on] |
Who Will Be the Next Wonder Woman?
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Lynda Carter made television history when she played Wonder Woman from 1975-1979. Can such an iconic portrayal ever be lived up to? It will have to be, because word is out that David E. Kelley, creator of "The Practice", "Ally McBeal", and "Bo...[Read on] |
The running world's elites come together to create a live a silent auction to benefit the Jenny Crain Make it Happen Fund
| Jenny Crain was, in the not to distant past, one of the top female runners in the country. Boasting personal bests of 32:30 for 10,000m, 1:15:05 for the half-marathon and 2:37:36 for the marathon, she was the top American finisher in the 2004 ING New York...[Read on] |
Naked Nike!
| Check out this "mockumentary" just released by Nike. They even got some pretty high-profile runners to participate. That's Lauren Fleshman, sub-15 minute 5000m runner, naked behind a guitar. And at the end, that's Adam and Kara Goucher, ...[Read on] |
Kara Goucher post-Boston: “I wanted to be the one that won for everybody”
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Kara Goucher was in tears. As soon as she hit the finish line. She had given it everything she had on that day and on the hundreds of days leading up to it: the tough training, the sacrifices, the tweaks in nutrition, the meticulous planning of each and e...[Read on] |
WPS surpasses 200,000 followers on Twitter
| I’m pretty sure this is the first WPS Press Release I’ve posted on my website, but, well…. this one’s at least worth a quickee cuz I’m stinkin’ proud!
WPS Surpasses 200,000 Followers on Twitter
League to Provide Behind the Scenes 2010 WPS Dr...[Read on] |
Mo'Nique's Spreads The Love With New Comedy Tour
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Mo'Nique doesn't stop! After winning a number of awards (including a SAG Award, a Golden Globe and the Washington, DC, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York Film Critics Award) being nominated for an Academy Award, and hosting a successful...[Read on] |
The Town's Rebecca Hall on Crying, Screaming, and Going Crazy
| Rebecca Hall and Ben Affleck in The Town. Photograph by Claire Folger. � 2010 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Legendary Pictures. Ben Affleck’s second film as a director is The Town, in which he also stars, playing a bank robber who, thanks to...[Read on] |
USWNT to play Sweden In Omaha, Nebraska Tuesday, July 13
| This will be the first of two matches between the WNT and Sweden in four days with the other occurring July 17 in East Hartford. Counting the upcoming match against Germany this Saturday, this will be also the third friendly within the next two months....[Read on] |
NCAA Women’s Soccer Final Four Determined
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The NCAA women’s soccer playoffs are coming to an end with just the last four teams standing after a somewhat predictable quarter final round. Stanford defeated Florida 5-0, Notre Dame and Ohio State both shut out their opponents, Oklahoma State and Geo...[Read on] |
13 year old Casie Cathrea makes a hole-in-one at LPGA Challenge
| Casie Cathrea, a 13 year old golfer from California, shot a hole-in-one at the CVS/pharmacy LPGA Challenge in Danville, Calif. on Thursday. In the opening round – her first on the tour, she made a hole-in-one on the 155-yard 12th hole. AMAZING! Her sc...[Read on] |
Girls, Grunts and Ground Strokes OR Ladies, Loud Noises and Lobs (Take Your Pick)
| An article in the Boston Globe yesterday discussed the possibility that the ever so proper tennis establishment is contemplating a new rule banning grunting among the women players. Not among the men mind you, just the women. It would be called a “nois...[Read on] |
A 300,000 Square-Foot Room of One’s Own: Scientology Buys a Production Studio
| A Scientology center in Boston. Photo by “Cryptic C62”/Wikipedia.
The Church of Scientology, the historically litigious and totally normal and non-scandalous religious organization, has purchased a 300,000 square-foot studio on Sunset Boulevard, in Lo...[Read on] |
Hounddog Screening in Boston
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I’m going to be moderating a q&a with Deborah Kampmeier the writer/director of Hounddog, Saturday night, March 28th as part of the Women Action Media conference. The screening is free.
Saturday March 28th
6:00 PM
MIT
Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
Room...[Read on] |
Top Female Celebrity Sports Fans
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Jack Nicholson, recently rated the No. 1 fan for his rabid following of the LA Lakers by the Bleacher Report, is to Spike Lee and the NY Knicks what Courtney Cox and the Lakers is to Carrie Underwood and the Dallas Cowboys. Or what Condoleezza Rice and th...[Read on] |
NFLPA concern for “regular people”…Don’t forget hotel maids!
| By Laura Pappano
Obviously, it sounds like negotiation hoopla.
Members of the NFL Players Association charged with forging a deal with the league (NFL owners last year voted to opt out of the present collective bargaining agreement) insist they ...[Read on] |
Rest in Peace Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Founder of Special Olympics
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Kennedys and Shrivers gathered at Special Olympics founder’s bedside, many recalling the heroic deeds done by JFK’s sisterEunice Shriver Dies | Today 9:05 am
UPDATED: 8:05 AM Tuesday: Eunice Kennedy Shriver has died at the age of 88.
Shriver died...[Read on] |
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