"pick-up" Articles & Blogs:
Connecticut and Minnesota swap draft picks, Trade Montgomery and Whalen
| The big news in the WNBA is that Connecticut and Minnesota have traded first-round draft picks. Previously, Minnesota had the #1 Draft Pick and Connecticut had the #2 overall pick.Trade:to Connecticut: Minnesota's first round draft pick (#1 overall&...[Read on] |
What was Pepsi thinking?
| WTF? No exactly sure what they were thinking, but Pepsi recently created an iPhone application called "AMP UP Before You Score" -- aimed at helping men "score" with women -- to promote its AMP energy drink.
The application provides pick-up lines and othe...[Read on] |
Senate Confirms Sotomayor
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Awesome.
Sotomayor would not have been my first pick for a Supreme Court justice for a lot of reasons — chief among them her disturbing deference to law enforcement and her lack of regard for privacy rights. But she is undoubtedly a highly-quali...[Read on] |
Obama to Tap Kathleen Sebelius for HHS Post; Abortion Issue Rears Head
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Anti-abortion groups are up in arms over reports that President Obama will name the Kansas governor to head Health and Human ServicesPost | Today 9:35 am
President Barack Obama will announce Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his pick for Health and Human...[Read on] |
2010 Gift Guide: Literary Classics
| This year, Vanity Fair is checking its holiday wish list twice. Check back each day for a favorite pick from Punch Hutton’s Hot Gifts. Penguin Classics has introduced a set of eight classic novels with beautifully reinterpreted covers: Cranford, Great E...[Read on] |
Betsy Dennigan: A Powerful Advocate for Women’s Health
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This post was submitted by Megan Foster, WCF Foundation Research Fellow.
This Tuesday, voters in Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District will go to the polls to pick the Democratic nominee for the...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Po...[Read on] |
Musical Mondays: Insatiable Banshees
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This is a weekly installment I’ll be doing, well, weekly! It’s easy and fun, and works like so:
Pick the book you’re currently reading, then think of a song or album that best matches the book. Even hitting shuffle on your musical player will do th...[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] |
Women's Hoops Hoopla: UConn Champions, WNBA Draft & more
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In case you’ve been living in a hole, here’s an update on what’s been happening in the world of women’s basketball.
On Tuesday night, the UConn women finished out their perfect season by beating Louisville 76-54 and capturing the NCAA championshi...[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] |
Player goes from intern to tryout with WNBA’s Sun
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Since I’m originally from Connecticut, women’s hoops is a big deal (have you heard of a li’l school called UConn?). Well, I still read the Hartford Courant with some regularity and loved the story I read today about a University of Vermont student...[Read on] |
ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue - Are my interests prurient?
| I have to say that the more I read about ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue the more I am looking forward to its release next week. And I am not the only one.I think many are intrigued by whether and how this naked stars/serious message thing is going to work...[Read on] |
What's in Obama's Proposed 2010 Budget for You?
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We here at wOw have gone through the huge budget documents to pick out what parts of the $355 trillion plan may affect womenPost | Today 1:50 pm
We understand the logistics of President Obama’s recently revealed $3.55 trillion budget can be a bit ...[Read on] |
How a girl picks her 2010 World Cup brackets
| Okay, I’m a game late to the party here, the opening match was this morning. But I figured I better jump on the bandwagon and put my predictions on the line… it just makes the tournament that much more fun!
Here’s are the rosters, for reference: h...[Read on] |
Musical Mondays: Superstition Time
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So what’s “Musical Monday”? Just pick the book you’re currently reading, then think of a song or album that best matches the book. Even hitting shuffle on your musical player will do the trick. I don’t know about you, but songs pop into my head ...[Read on] |
10 Facts About Diane Wood, Potential Supreme Court Justice Pick
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Hon. Diane P. Wood is believed to be one of the women on President
Barack Obama’s short list of Supreme Court justices. Tell us what you
know about herPost | Today 3:24 pm
President Barack Obama is beginning interviews with prospective replacement...[Read on] |
Musical Mondays: Wild Love
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So what’s “Musical Monday”? Just pick the book you’re currently reading, then think of a song or album that best matches the book. Even hitting shuffle on your musical player will do the trick. I don’t know about you, but songs pop into my head ...[Read on] |
After the WNBA draft: Who's ballin' now?
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After a weekend of festivities, media training and photo ops, the WNBA draft was held Monday at the ESPN headquarters in Connecticut. Girls who have been dreaming of this day since they first dribbled a basketball in a school gym were a bundle of nerves...[Read on] |
Celebrating all the women nominated for Academy Awards
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Check out this great trailer from my friends at the Women’s Media Center.
It’s a great pick me up.
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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] |
A Warning: The 2011 True E-Book Challenge Story
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Thanks to Juju at Tales of Whimsy, I’ve joined a challenge! If you haven’t heard of it (or more rightly, guessed) it’s the 2011 E-Book Challenge which is totally right up my alley.
A lot of the freebies on Amazon are romance novels. And I personal...[Read on] |
Will Oprah Be Like Howard Stern or the Yankees?
| Oprah Winfrey in New York, December 8, 2008. Photo courtesy of Patrick McMullan Company, Inc. Although she has not yet said so explicitly, it’s pretty obvious what Oprah Winfrey has in mind. She announced today that she will end her syndicated daytime p...[Read on] |
Musical Mondays: Head Baker
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So what’s “Musical Monday”? Just pick the book you’re currently reading (or just finished), then think of a song or album that best matches the book. Even hitting shuffle on your musical player will do the trick. I don’t know about you, but song...[Read on] |
New hosts for At the Movies- Another couple of guys
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Fired critics Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz
What’s wrong with these pictures?
One of the remaining movie review shows which peaked years ago when it starred Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert is At the Movies. Before last season they replaced Ebert and Sisk...[Read on] |
Holiday Movie Preview- Lots for and about women
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I love when I get my Entertainment Weekly preview issues. Just love them. This year’s holiday movie preview just arrived and lo and behold it looks like it could be a pretty decent season for us women.
The season has already begun with Oscar frontr...[Read on] |
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