"games" Articles & Blogs:
Video games give girls "life lessons" on how to achieve their social beauty standards
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Check out Wired's take on new games for girls released in 2009, in which all but one ("The Daring Game for Girls") is about fashion, boys, princesses, modeling, and more fashion. Well, there is a detective game, but you solve mysteries using your "femin...[Read on] |
X-Games 16 Girls Day August 1st
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We are experiencing technical difficulties with the online registration, fear not. If you want to reserve a spot, email courtney.gro@gmail.com or call 812-322-5254 with the following information:
Participant’s Full Name
Participant’s Age
Skat...[Read on] |
X Games 16 Women’s Vert Finals
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The X Games 16 Women’s Vert Finals took place at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles Friday afternoon. The podium looked similar to last year – only the order of the top three winners varied.
Recent high school grad Gaby Ponce took home the gold, defe...[Read on] |
Iran OKs Female for Games; Vancouver Fails T-Test
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(WOMENSENEWS)--
Cheers
For the first time in Winter Olympics history, an Iranian woman will compete for her country, reported CNN on Feb. 10. Marjan Kalhor, 21, will head the Iranian team in Vancouver, Canada, as the Olympics kicked off Feb. 12.
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Ashley Fiolek wins gold at X Games
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For the last two years, Jessica Patterson has been so close to getting an X Games gold medal that she could almost taste it. Last year after leading almost every lap in the Moto X Super X, JP narrowly lost to teen phenom Ashley Fiolek.
This year, Jessica...[Read on] |
Field set for the 2010 NCAA Women’s College World Series
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Super Regional action is over and the field is now set for the 2010 NCAA Women’s College World Series.
The biggest upset came in the Tuscaloosa Super Regional, where No. 16 Hawaii recorded a pair of one-run wins to eliminate No. 1 Alabama in three ga...[Read on] |
Iranian President, clerics disagree over women’s sports
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Iranian athletes had fine performances in China’s southern city of Guangzhou where the 16th edition of the Asian Games, Asiad, recently wrapped.
But a senior Muslim cleric has denounced the participation of Iranian women in the Asian Games, calling i...[Read on] |
X Games Street: Marisa Dal Santo reclaims gold
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X Games gold medalist Marisa Dal Santo
There were two women’s X finals today. But unless you were there in person, you’d probably have trouble finding any footage of it. Fortunately, I was there (straight from an early morning flight from N...[Read on] |
Lindsey Vonn's Life in the Fast Lane
| Lindsey Vonn training on a Super G race course in Vail, Colorado, on November 23, 2009. Photographs by Jack Affleck, Vail Mountain, Colorado. Some Olympic moments are unforgettable: When U.S. swimmer Jason Lezak chased down Frenchman Alain Bernard in the ...[Read on] |
Think video games are for lazy bums? These will get you in shape
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Working out can be the dullest and most frustrating activity on the face of the earth. It is necessary to be active to keep our lovely figures fit and trim, but sometimes getting started can be downright impossible.The prospect of running on a treadmill o...[Read on] |
Kelly Clark makes history with 1080 at Winter X Games
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The women’s Superpipe finals at Winter X Games 15 were jaw-dropping to say the least The highlight, of course, was when Vermont native Kelly Clark‘s became the first woman to successfully land a 1080 in competition. That’s THREE full rotations t...[Read on] |
Olympic pricing: Equality? Economics? Gender?
| What equality is remains contextual and questionable. I don't know much about economics. And gender continues to present so many interesting issues with which to contend.Hence all the questions in the title of this post.But what I really want to talk abou...[Read on] |
Preparing for X Games. A journey through the mind of an athlete.
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by Kimmy Fasani Preparation for X Games is always a little bit intimidating because the expectations are typically so much higher than at any other contest. The jumps are bigger, the crowds are bigger, all the sponsors are there and to top it off it’s a...[Read on] |
Female ski jumpers lose 2010 Olympic battle
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Female ski jumper Lindsey Van
We’ve written a lot over the past year about the battle waged by 15 former and current women ski jumpers who have argued about their right to participate in the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.
For some background, chec...[Read on] |
March Madness Online: Thank you, ESPN, for promoting women
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Ok, so March Madness has officially begun.
It’s my favorite time of the year!!
This year, I actually decided to participate (shocking) by filling out brackets and starting Women Talk Sports groups) for both the Men’s NCAA Championships (via CBS Spor...[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] |
No-tech games offer summer amusement
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Wanna be ballers may be interested in this summer’s reignited passion for neighborhood sports that may make you reminiscence for an era before cellphones:
Handball: Nothing screams ‘New York City in the summer’ more than a game of handball. Althou...[Read on] |
Iran, North Korea Playing Diplomatic Games With American Journalists?
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Roxana Saberi’s dad says she is ‘pretty suicidal’ in Iran’s Evin Prison, while some say North Korea will use Al Gore’s Current TV journos as bargaining chipsJournalists Detained in Iran, North Korea | Today 9:50 am
Iran and...[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] |
Vera Wang takes the ice
| Many of us know Vera Wang as an American designer whose
trademark fashion is the bridal gown. But before she entered the fashion
industry, Wang was a figure skater who competed at the 1968 U.S. Figure Skating
Championships. When her skating dreams failed ...[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] |
Women to Watch in the Olympics: All the Figure Skaters
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Figure skating is one of those Olympic sports that draws a huge viewership. As such, it leads to a sense of rivalry in the fans (I still feel Michelle Kwan was robbed by Tara Lipinski in the ’98 Games, but that’s neither here nor there) but th...[Read on] |
X Games: Ashley Fiolek wins women’s moto X
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X Games Women's Moto Medalists: Elizabeth Bash, Ashley Fiolek, Jessica Patterson
If it seems like the X Games are all about testosterone driven events, that may be changing. With riders like Ashley Fiolek, Jessica Patterson and Elizabeth Bash taking to...[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] |
Visa Honors Winter Olympian Julia Mancuso
| Longtime U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding partner Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), a Worldwide Olympic Partner for more than two decades, Thursday released a special edition television commercial celebrating Team Visa athlete Julia Mancuso’s second silve...[Read on] |
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