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Sharapova partners with TAG Heuer on sunglass collection
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Tennis star Maria Sharapova is internationally known for her flawless tennis swing and impeccable sense of style, on and off the tennis court. Now TAG Heuer Eyewear and Sharapova have collaborated to design a new collection of sunglasses that deliver bo...[Read on] |
Sharapova sparkles with Gehry-designed Tiffany
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Last spring, Maria Sharapova and Tiffany & Co. launched a two year partnership. The Fifth Avenue jeweler announced they would outfit the top-ranked player in different pairs of earrings over a series of Grand Slam tennis events, beginning with last summ...[Read on] |
Tennis star Maria Sharapova celebrates her birthday in the Bahamas
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Maria Sharapova celebrated her 24th birthday with a three-tiered “pretty in pink” birthday cake at Atlantis in Paradise Island in the Bahamas last weekend.
“I want to thank all my fans for all their Happy Birthday wishes,” the tennis champ wrote...[Read on] |
Maria Sharapova signs record-breaking contract with Nike
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If you’re an up and coming sports superstar, you may be interested to know a bit about the business of sports.
This week it was announced that Russian tennis champ Maria Sharapova has renewed her sponsorship agreement with Nike for $70 million (yikes) ...[Read on] |
Is Maria Verchenova the Maria Sharapova of Golf?
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Generally I’m not a fan of labels or comparisons. But Maria Verchenova, a young female golfer from Moscow, is being compared to her compatriot Maria Sharapova. These comparisons, not surprisingly, are based as much on Verchenova’s beauty as he...[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] |
'Child of Alzheimer's' Maria Shriver Talks About 'Alzheimer's Project'
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California First Lady Maria Shriver, whose dad Sargent Shriver has Alzheimer’s Disease, says
that there is nothing to be ashamed aboutThe Alzheimer's Project | 05/06/2009 2:45 pm
California’s First Lady Maria Shriver calls herself a "ch...[Read on] |
Michelle Obama's Top Fashion Designers Defend J. Crew Cardigans, Lanvin Shoes, Sleeveless and More
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Maria Cornejo, Thakoon Panichgul and Narciso Rodriguez became household names after First Lady donned their designsPost | Today 7:00 am
Four days after Michelle Obama’s 100 first days in office, three of her favorite designers — Maria Cornej...[Read on] |
Against the odds: Girls in urban areas face unique challenges in playing sports
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.Katie Thomas has written two parts of a series for the New York Times looking at the unique challenges facing urban girls who want to play sports
Her first piece, about a middle school basketball team in Brooklyn, highlights challenges facing the gir...[Read on] |
Social Media & Sport Apologies
| Discussion in the Tucker Center this morning was very lively around the topic of Serena Williams’ U.S. Open semifinal outburst, fine, and subsequent apology via her blog and Twitter account (also see picture here).
I have a few other thoughts o...[Read on] |
Top power female athletes of 2011
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Apparently Bloomberg BusinessWeek creates an annual Sports Power list by choosing the 100 most powerful athletes on and off the field. This year's Power Sports 100 was pretty disappointing in regards to the number of women that were selected.
In fact, ...[Read on] |
Women dominate top of the Forbes celebrity list
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Two African American women — Oprah and Beyonce — are the two top celebrities according to Forbes. Awesome. They are followed by James Cameron who made a pot of money off Avatar and Lady Gaga who has had a serious breakout year. Other women in ...[Read on] |
Eunice Shriver in Critical Condition; Special Olympians Wish Her Well
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As Kennedys and Shrivers gather at Special Olympics founder’s bedside, many are recalling the heroic deeds done by JFK’s sisterEunice Shriver | Today 10:00 am
Special Olympians around the country are sending well wishes to Eunice Kennedy Shr...[Read on] |
U.S. Open players step up the fashion game
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The U.S. Open tennis tournament kicks off next week, and the competition is going to be fierce— both on the court and on the fashion front.
Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova are collaborating with Nike on their respective clothing lines, and this yea...[Read on] |
Venus Williams stops traffic in Miami
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Three-time Sony Ericsson champion Venus Williams and British number one Andy Murray kicked off the 2009 Sony Ericsson Open with a little “Traffic Tennis” atop two SUV’s on Miami’s Ocean Drive.
Thankfully for both stars, the game was only promotio...[Read on] |
Polo Ralph Lauren debuts U.S. Open Tennis Collection
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Polo Ralph Lauren for the U.S. Open
With the U.S. Open tennis tournament quickly approaching (competition begins at the end of August), a number of questions are being lobbed around: Will defending champion Serena Williams make another run for the Gran...[Read on] |
Tribeca 2010 – Monica and David
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I was able to take in a couple of films at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. I wish I could have seen more, but that’s life. The three films I saw were all female directed: Cairo Time by Ruba Nadda; Monica and David by Ali Codina; and Joan Rivers -...[Read on] |
Mad Men women writers part whatever
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I don’t know why this is one of my bugaboos but every since Mad Men put all its female writers out in the Wall Street Journal before last year’s premiere and declared the show was basically written by women I’ve been watching the women writers on ...[Read on] |
Gotta Have Heart – The Best Sports Couples
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Have you ever noticed how singers and actors always to seem to hook up with each other? There’s Gwen and Gavin, Brad and Angelina… the list goes on and on. Well in sports, it’s no different. In honor of Valentine’s Day, here’s a look at some of ...[Read on] |
The world’s most powerful celebrities are women
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Forbes has published another one of its lists this time the world’s most powerful celebrities. Since it’s a celebrity list and is (as they say) “a measure of power based on money and fame,” I’m not surprised that women dominate the top of the ...[Read on] |
Double Standard: SATC 2 v. Grown-ups
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Here’s what bothers me. The women of Sex and the City 2 get skewered for being not mature, and self-centered and out of touch and the thousand other things that were used to put down that film, but Grown-Ups a movie that celebrates the lack of male ...[Read on] |
The Girl Effect in Africa.
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Last week was the World Economic Forum on Africa with a critical focus on the role of girls in the economic development of Africa. The World Economic Forums are a series of convenings led by a Swiss non-profit of the same name. Their platform focuses on t...[Read on] |
Legendary Pinup Jane Russell’s 1948 Vanity Fair Cover
| From the Everett Collection.
Jane Russell died Monday of respiratory failure at her Santa Maria, Calif., home, surrounded by family—she was 89 years old. And 63 years ago this month, Russell appeared as the face of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue—prom...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood: Women to Watch
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What a great idea. The people who run the Cultural Leadership Programme in the UK know that there is a leadership disparity between men and women in the arts. Lots of times the issue is that the women are just not visible enough in order to get that n...[Read on] |
Mending bumps & bruises: The objectification of female athletes
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“Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It’s about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.” — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Okay, so the first image that comes to your mind...[Read on] |
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