"college-basketball" Articles & Blogs:
Take a Knee: Teen Girls Talk B-Ball, Leadership, Life
| By Laura Pappano
Because we can all benefit from hearing serious young female athlete voices, we connected with three talented basketball players who just finished nine days at the summer academy run by the non-profit SportsChallenge Leadership & Edu...[Read on] |
"Just your average college girl who's played ball with the President" - Glamour
| Maya Moore was named to Glamour’s Top Ten College Women list. Although they describe the 10 women as “amazing women you haven’t heard of yet” and I’ve obviously heard of her, that’s a pretty cool honor!
Here’s what they had to say about...[Read on] |
Women and (March) Madness
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It's that time of year. Yes, the birds are starting to chirp and the crocuses are peeking their little colorful heads up through the dry, brittle grass. This, I am very excited about. But what has me even more excited at this exact moment is a different k...[Read on] |
Confessions of a new fan, or "How I learned to stop worrying and love women's basketball"
| Confession time.
I have never played a game of basketball.
I have never even shot a basketball.
And had you asked me a year ago about basketball, I would have looked at you blankly and asked, "Doesn't it stop like, every five minutes?" or tried to comp...[Read on] |
College Hoops: It’s The Girls’ Turn
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Who’s in? Who’s out? The NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament field was announced this evening as 64 teams waited to hear where they’ll be playing their first round games starting March 21.
March Madness & Final Four is a phenomenon that grips the ...[Read on] |
Female athletes outperform their male counterparts in college
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College athletes are still setting records and dispelling myths — in the classroom.
The NCAA’s latest graduation numbers show nearly four out of five student-athletes earn their diplomas on time, an all-time high, and federal statistics show athletes...[Read on] |
Title IX: Celebrating opportunity for all
| It was a particularly lackluster practice and in typical fashion our basketball coach threw a bit of a fit. He went on a verbal rampage trying desperately to explain to this group of high school girls the possibilities that existed for them in sport.
He ...[Read on] |
Obama welcomes UConn women’s team to White House
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President Barack Obama welcomed the University of Connecticut’s national champion women’s basketball team to the White House Monday, and it was a reunion for many of the players and the Prez.
The UConn women won their second straight NCAA championsh...[Read on] |
Mel Greenberg says goodbye to the Inquirer but not to women’s basketball
| Twitpic from @jtannenwald: Farewell party for @womhoopsguru
He is known as the Guru. He is a walking encyclopedia of women’s basketball history, mostly because he witnessed, chronicled and helped shape it for four decades.
I first met Mel Greenber...[Read on] |
UConn women’s basketball champions visit White House
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The benefits of being the best. Win a national championship and you, too, could go to the White House.
A championship ceremony at the White House is standard for many national sports teams. But shooting hoops with the president, now that’s something e...[Read on] |
Basketball teammates help girl with amnesia
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Just saw this story on ABC’s World News. It’s a good one. Good enough to share it with you.
It’s about a girl named Kayla Hutchinson, who, at the age of 19 as a student-athlete at Walla Walla Community College, collided with a teammate during a bas...[Read on] |
Women's Equality
| Equality
Going to the polls to vote, or stepping out on the court to play a basketball game, I realize that I have a voice. My voice stands for all women. Women who were not and still cannot vote for anything. For women who cannot participate in sports a...[Read on] |
Violence, girls and sports
| The popular reading of violence in women’s sports is that (a) part of the growth into the big-time arena and (b) bad for women’s sports in general.
Last weekend, an article on violence in women’s sports ran in the New York Times, co...[Read on] |
Are Females Interested in Supporting Women's Sports?
| NPR writer Frank Deford opens his article by highlighting all of the recent media attention given to female athletes. From Lindsey Vonn and Danica Patrick to Serena Williams, the media has taken notice. But, there seems to be a distinct divide where indiv...[Read on] |
Critique of March Madness Sports Illustrated Cover
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Sports Illustrated 2010 March Madness Cover
I love March Madness. Every year I wait for the March Madness cover of Sports Illustrated. Every year I do a critique of the cover. Now that I have a blog, I can post the critique for the first time as ...[Read on] |
Hartford paper rethinks idea to publish Auriemma’s daughter
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I grew up in Connecticut where women’s basketball rules.
Long before other women’s college teams got exposure and respect, the public TV station broadcast the UConn games. In fact, CPTV began its coverage of the university women during the 1993-94 ...[Read on] |
"In one generation, young girls have gone from hoping there's a team to hoping they can make the team." -Mary Jo Kane
| In America, we’re all about the scores, the highlights, and the numbers…. So let’s take a look at some Title IX numbers:
In 1972, the average number of women’s sports teams offered per school was about 2… now, 38 years lat...[Read on] |
WNBA’s Sky to host celebrity team in battle of the sexes
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The Chicago Sky will host the first-ever Basketball Battle of the Sexes game when it takes on an all-male team from the Entertainment League in a June exhibition contest.
The game, at 7 p.m. June 2 p.m. at the UIC Pavilion, will be played with WNBA offic...[Read on] |
Hard Targets: Sport & Art at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio
| The Wexner Center, on the campus of Ohio State University, is hosting Hard Targets, a gorgeous exhibit of contemporary art centered on images of men and sport curated by Christopher Bedford (who gives me a run for the money in terms of fanaticism)...[Read on] |
No Offense, It's Just Business
| Marie Hardin recently posted a WTS blog in response to Eric Deggens' column regarding a study confirming that while participation in women's sports has increased with Title IX, media coverage itself is stagnant, if not decreasing (see "Why the Apathy...[Read on] |
Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day!
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Today, I’m celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day by actually playing. I’ve got a rec game scheduled for tonight at 7pm, and play with a community of women who live in NYC and have played competitive basketball at some point in their lives...[Read on] |
First fruits of a beautiful labor: Andre Agassi Prepatory Academy graduates inaugural class
| Andre Agassi and one of the first graduates from the Andre Agassi Prepatory Academy on Saturday, June 13, during the graduation ceremony.(All Photos by Wireimage)by Kyle Hansen for the Las Vegas SuncontactLas Vegas, Saturday, June 13 -- The first ...[Read on] |
The Evolution of the WNBA
| Efficiency, Pace, and Points
The WNBA crossed an important milestone this season. It was the first time the league averaged more than 1 point per possession. After being fairly flat for several years, the WNBA had it's most efficient offensive season...[Read on] |
On the Continuum: Women’s Sports
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I went to a lunch earlier this week where Donna Orender, the President of the WNBA was the speaker. It was a small group of women from a diversity of professions. She talked about her life and how she has gotten to where she is now.
A little backgrou...[Read on] |
Iraqi girls live the dream at in Lady Vols’ basketball camp
| An Iraqi girls’ basketball team took part in a Tennessee Lady Vols basketball camp last week as part of a program promoting peace and cultural understanding through sports.
Under Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi National Women’s Basketball Team was dismantl...[Read on] |
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