"game" Articles & Blogs:
Q & A with Girls in the Game
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Girls in the Game is a leading girls' health and fitness organization in Chicago that provides and promotes sports & fitness opportunities, nutrition & health education, and leadership development to enhance the overall health an...[Read on] |
Social networking is getting socailly conscious!
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According to a new game on Facebook, American 2049, social networking can be socially conscious! The new game is centered on such topics as forced sex work and prostitution, racial profiling, segregation, abortion issues, LGBTQ injustic...[Read on] |
Mackenzie Brown tells why girls who love baseball should ignore critics — and what she was thinking when she threw out the first pitch at a Mets game
| On April 21, Bayone, N.J. Little Leaguer Mackenzie Brown pitched a perfect game, retiring all 18 boys who got up to bat; she was invited to throw out the first pitch a Met’s game a few days later.
By Mackenzie Brown
I started playing baseball for the ...[Read on] |
Women's Sports: What's wrong with being a cause?
| Almost passed over yet another article about the bad economy and the effects on women's sports. You know, the one that invokes almost immediately the folding of the Houston Comets and the shaky pitch the WPS finds itself on.Though much later in the articl...[Read on] |
President Obama becomes first sitting president to attend WNBA game
| U.S. President Barack Obama, his daughter Sasha, and Shelia Johnson, owner
of the Washington Mystics, attend a Women’s National Basketball Association
(WNBA) game between the Washington Mystics and the Tulsa Shock in
Washington on August 1, 2010...[Read on] |
It's Not Over: U.S. Women Still Die Giving Birth
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(WOMENSENEWS)--When I was a kid, my family and I used to make a parlor game out of the question, "What would life have been like if we had lived a century ago?"
It always made for an interesting game, so long as we skipped over the fact that mo...[Read on] |
Marketing Sports: “Wine & Pampering” v. “Beer & Back Waxing”
| So after posting my last blog “Are Women Sport Fans?” I had a couple conversations with colleagues about female sport fans and how we “market” sport to women which spurred some additional thoughts. As I mentioned previously, females comprise 53% o...[Read on] |
A Dame with Game: Helen Mirren Plays Beer Pong with Jimmy Fallon
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BUST cover woman Helen Mirren promoted more than just her upcoming film, "Red", when she went on NBC's show "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" recently. Fallon challenged our Dame to the popular college game of beer-pong, and she proved to be a great sport as...[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] |
Valerie Plame on Fair Game: I Am Really Good with an AK-47
| If Tuesday’s election didn’t sate your thirst for back-stabbing politics and blatant public deceit, then the cineplex has just the thing for you this weekend: Fair Game. With the gritty, hyperkinetic sensibility that he demonstrated in The Bourne Iden...[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] |
Natalie Gulbis throws out first pitch at A’s game
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We’ve written about a lot of ladies throwing out the first pitch this baseball season. LA Sol Soccer player Marta, golfer Michelle Wie, and Sparks players Delisha Milton Jones and Tina Thompson graced the blue carpet by throwing out the first pitc...[Read on] |
Women breaking barriers: A milestone
| From the Association for Women in Sports Media: Today marks the 35th anniversary of Robin Herman and Marcel St. Cyr becoming the first female sports reporters to enter a locker room for post-game interviews.Herman was a reporter at The New York Times and ...[Read on] |
Superbowl XLV: Running a football pool
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Now we’re not suggesting that you actually bet on the Superbowl game, but football pools can make watching the game a lot more fun. There are a variety of ways to set up the pool and to pick winners but we’ll tell you how the simplest and most common ...[Read on] |
Sports or romance? That is the question
| Listen up
guys, this one’s for you…
There are
tons of female sports fanatics out there, but even the craziest fans have a
soft spot for romance. Many ladies would argue that a date to a football game
or a proposal on the jumbotron are far from romant...[Read on] |
USC women’s soccer defeats UCLA
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Playing in front of 8,527 fans at the Los Angeles Coliseum, a new NCAA Women’s Soccer regular season record, the USC Trojans defeated the UCLA Bruins by a score of 1-0. USC had not beaten UCLA in the regular season since 1998. Still, USC’s win over UC...[Read on] |
In case you missed the Women's World Baseball Cup...this might be why.
| ...like I did. The Women's World Baseball Cup was held last month in Venezuela. The tournament gained attention (again not mine--I missed this whole thing; though I did read that there was very little media coverage; regular Sports Center watchers might b...[Read on] |
Women’s pro soccer league to allow in-game ‘tweets’
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I admit it - I’m addicted to Twitter.
So it comes as good news that while in-game Twitter posts might be a technical foul of sorts in the NBA, at least one sports league is embracing the idea of having players use the social networking Web site during ...[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] |
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] |
LIVE’S High Heel-a-thon
| The 2010 Regis and Kelly LIVE! High Heel-A-Thon is set to take place on Wednesday, September 22nd. The High Heel-A-Thon is a fun 150-yard dash in support of The Heart Truth®. Although this is simply a fun event in heels, a lot of serious athletes als...[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] |
Holm V. Hernandez: Women boxers talk smack!
| Ok, this is just fun. On October 20th in Albuquerque, NM the world’s top female welterweight Holly Holm (25-1-3, 7 KO) and her challenger Melissa “Hurracan” Hernandez (11-1-2, 4 KO) were present for a press conference to announce the...[Read on] |
My first Final Four
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Generally when I go to a women’s sporting event, I’m sitting on press row reporting on the competition or on the sidelines taking photographs. Rarely do I get to attend a game – no less a championship game – as a fan. Well I got that chance last w...[Read on] |
Female fandom: Study says they don't like the pros
| A study out of Canada about the gendered nature of fandom reveals that women are not huge fans of professional sports. Not a shocker despite the plethora of popular media accounts of women forming fan clubs and becoming the latest target demographic for f...[Read on] |
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