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Coach Sharp to lead Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund
| Great news from the WBCA! We've landed a great leader to guide the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.ATLANTA -The Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund®, in partnership with The V Foundation for Cancer Research, announces Marsha Sharp, avid women’s basketball pioneer, as th...[Read on] |
Nancy Lieberman talks about her new job
| Nancy Lieberman Talks About Her New Job
Great piece from Scott on Nancy's ground breaking new job as the head coach of the new D-league team from Texas.
Hopefully, this signals more cross pollination and coordination between the D-league and WNBA. That ...[Read on] |
Bridget Sloan and Kyla Ross Crowned USA Gymnastics National Champions
| Post Olympic year national championships are always interesting. Will a new star emerge? Will someone who was in the shadows of previous stars claim the spotlight? Or will the whole event be, well, uneventful? When it comes to the 2009 Visa National Champ...[Read on] |
Tragic loss for a young player in San Antonio, South Texas Hoyas spearhead support
| While the nation’s top women’s basketball teams prepare for a showcase at San Antonio’s AT&T;Center, a young player in the city is coping with the lost her biggest fan.
Saturday morning, the mother of an 11 year-old player for the South Texas Hoyas...[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] |
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] |
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] |
White House Dog to Come Tuesday -- And It's a Kennedy
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The dog the Obamas will be getting is from the same lineage as the Kennedy dogs, reports entertainment website TMZBow Watch | 04/10/2009 8:40 pm
Expect the First Family dog to grace the White House lawn on Tuesday — and according to the entertainm...[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] |
Whip-It Rocks
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I needed a pick me up yesterday after way too much depressing reading on the Roman Polanski situation and as soon as I arrived at the theatre to see a bunch of awesome women on roller blades with names like Fisty Cuffs and Beatrix Strange skating around o...[Read on] |
Was media criticism of Brittney Griner’s duo of dunks unfair?
| With not even half of her first college season under her belt, Baylor freshman Brittney Griner is in the record books for multiple feats. One of the most recent includes last Saturday night’s duo of dunks in a blowout game against Texas State. It...[Read on] |
Equality Watch: Girls in the Band
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Baskery
I’m no musical expert (my taste tend to run to folky girl singers), but I found this post (that came through a bunch of different women’s sites including feministing,) where one woman counted how many female musical groups were included in th...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin, American Gossip Girl
| Photo illustration by Hamish Robertson. “My young, crushed spirit learned a lesson about guys that day: even the good ones can act like jerks.” Quick, which book is this quote from: Cecily von Ziegesar’s blockbuster novel, Gossip Girl, or Sarah Pali...[Read on] |
Japan women’s soccer cancels trip to United States due to swine flu
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This one made me laugh out loud in my chair.
A headline on USA Today reads Japan cancels games against U.S. women due to swine flu.
Japan was scheduled to play the U.S. team in Texas on May 20, and in Utah on May 23,. The team was also scheduled to t...[Read on] |
Chiney Ogwumike chosen as Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year
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The biggest names in high school and professional sports convened in Los Angeles today as Gatorade honored the top prep male and female athletes with the eighth annual High School Athlete of the Year awards. Just yards from L.A. Live’s Nokia Theatre a...[Read on] |
Women in Motorsports Blog Carnival - Indy Roundup
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A wave of women hit the grid this past weekend in Indianapolis, marking the first time four females have ever started the race.
AskPatty.com rounds up the news to see how our fierce, fast females fared last weekend.
After hearing another smattering of ...[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] |
Dara Torres does it again
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Dara Torres
Dara Torres continues to defy age and expectations when it comes to her performance in the pool.
In a world record time trial attempt in the women’s 50 fly, Torres raced to a 25.50. The performance gave her a third-straight progression o...[Read on] |
Bipartisanship Lives, At Least When It Comes to Protecting Child Support
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Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security, National Women's Law Center
Yesterday, the Child Support Protection Act of 2009, S. 1859, was introduced by Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). The bill would permanently restore fun...[Read on] |
Friday Night Lights takes on abortion
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Popular entertainment rarely deals with abortion. Often when characters on TV get pregnant "the A word" isn't even spoken out loud - FOX won't even let "abortion" be said by a character on their network. Abortion is rarely a real consideration. Then there...[Read on] |
The Buy vs. Lease Debate - What do you need to know?
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Differences Between Buying and LeasingThe main difference between buying and leasing an automobile is when you buy an auto, you own it and get to keep the vehicle once the contract is fulfilled. When you lease an automobile, you are borrowing the vehicl...[Read on] |
Roe v. Wade – What’s in a Name?
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By Lauren Robbins, Intern for Health and Reproductive RightsNational Women’s Law Center
This past Halloween I saw a woman on the street carrying what looked like an oversized paddle and rowing her way down 14th Street, sans boat and, for that matter, w...[Read on] |
Honda Award Winners - Best Female Collegiate Athletes
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For the 24th consecutive year, Honda has honored the most outstanding female collegiate athletes in the nation with the Collegiate Women Sports Awards.
Winners are selected in each of the 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports by a panel of more than 1,000 NCAA a...[Read on] |
Great offer for Women & Hollywood readers to attend Let Me Down Easy by Anna Deveare Smith
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I had the chance to check out Anna Deveare Smith’s play on health care issues courtesy of the folks at Second Stage Theatre. If you have never seen Anna on stage doing her interpretations you are really missing out. Her Ann Richards’ piece was ama...[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] |
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