"upset" Articles & Blogs:
Kim Mulkey: Class Act
| Coach Kim hits all the right notes in discussing her program's upset of Tennessee, noting that she takes no pleasure in defeating one of the game's legends in Pat Summitt. Also in this same round-up, Geno points out that he doesn't give a damn about the...[Read on] |
Tea Party Women Could Change the Score, Long Term
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(WOMENSENEWS)--It could be the way Republican billionaire Meg Whitman is spending record millions of her own money on her gubernatorial campaign in California and attracting attention to her domestic-worker employment practices.
Or maybe it's the upset v...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: NY Post’s VA Musetto
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It seems that the fact that Abbie Cornish keeps her clothes on in Bright Star has so upset the NY Post so they had to remind readers that she has played other roles where she shows more skin.
If you just have to see the 27-year-old farmer’s daughter in...[Read on] |
Women Talk Sports Weekly Radio Show #3 - Sunday at 6pm ET - Special Guest Gabriele Anderson
| Sunday afternoon, MarQ Piocos and Ann Gaffigan will host the weekly Women Talk Sports Radio Show at 6pm Eastern/3pm Pacific.
They will be discussing:
Bellator 34: Megumi Fujii vs Zoila Frausto - did Frausto pull off an upset against the greatest po...[Read on] |
Archie has Chosen!
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After 67 years, the original fictional love triangle has finally been resolved (or has it?). Archie, the goony, redheaded protagonist of the beloved Archie comic series , proposed to Veronica, the swanky, black-haired bad girl he’s been chasing afte...[Read on] |
Lessons Chicks Should Unlearn
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Our whole lives center around one thing - lessons. In our childhood, we learn how to grow into mature and able adults. In school, we learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. In our social lives, we learn how to function with other people in a civil and pr...[Read on] |
Stuttgart: Girls, Set, Match
| This year’s Porsche Tennis Grand Prix was a special edition – it was the world’s first indoor tournament on clay - and spectators were served world class tennis.
There were many tight and excellent matches. For example, there was the game between S...[Read on] |
Where's Cinderella?
| "Me and Caroline (her sister who is 2 and more into Elmo aka "Mel Mo") like Areil best". So I stood there looking at these plastic toys never having seen any of the movies (I wasn't a deprived kid, we just played more than we sat in front of a...[Read on] |
Elizabeth Lambert Spurs Facebook Interest
| On Friday, we all saw the below video of New Mexico professional soccer player Elizabeth Lambert, who astonishingly displayed unsportsmanlike conduct in a game against Brigham Young University. (She’s since been suspended indefinitely from the leagu...[Read on] |
Can Kathryn Bigelow win the DGA Award on Saturday?
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I’m still bitter over the Golden Globes. I can’t let it go. I really thought that Bigelow would win best director and she, of course, didn’t. I wish that I didn’t care this much but I find the fact that we girls have a horse in the race for ...[Read on] |
Teen Vogue features pregnant covergirl, moral panic ensues
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Seems that some people are upset that one of the models on Teen Vogue's November cover is pregnant.
19 year-old Jourdan Dunn isn't visibly pregnant, but talks about her pregnancy in the magazine.
The cover has raised eyebrows among some parents, teens a...[Read on] |
Movie Review: Made in Dagenham - Striking a blow for women
| I had the chance to attend a screening of Made in Dagenham last night at the Raleigh Studios and recommend it to anyone with a social conscience who might have trouble remembering that women didn't always have equal rights.
In fact the film should be req...[Read on] |
Flying Somewhere? Tips for Healthy In-Flight Travel
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Taking a plane can mean a lot of things: the beginning of an exciting vacation, the means by which you travel home from college, the place where one might run over notes before an out-of-town business meeting.
Whatever flying means to you, it doesn’...[Read on] |
Flying Somewhere? Tips for Healthy In-Flight Travel
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Taking a plane can mean a lot of things: the beginning of an exciting vacation, the means by which you travel home from college, the place where one might run over notes before an out-of-town business meeting.
Whatever flying means to you, it doesn’t h...[Read on] |
UCLA wins Women’s College World Series
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Living in LA, I was naturally rooting for UCLA in the Women’s College World Series – just as I have for the last five years. But this year, they didn’t disappoint.
The tournament began with a series of upsets leaving everyone to wonder who would em...[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] |
TV: Feminist Cop Shows
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Kathryn Morris
I like a good procedural. In fact, I pretty much watch most all the cop shows on TV, even Criminal Minds. But I have been a big fan of Cold Case which has a female detective Lily Rush played by Kathryn Morris at its center. Now I hea...[Read on] |
The Controversy Over Angelina Jolie’s Directorial Debut
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Angelina Jolie has been in Europe over the last couple of months filming her still untitled directorial debut a love story that she wrote about a Bosnian Muslim woman and a Serbian man. Tough stuff to begin with but the shoot has not been easy politic...[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] |
Hugs are better for you than kisses (We’re sad too!)
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I’m sure you can recall how great hugs feel - warmth and security envelop you like no other. Simply put, they’re amazing when they’re the right kind. In relationships, though, it seems that kisses overpower the classic embrace. When your guy comes t...[Read on] |
2010 Olympics: The influence of advertising on quality broadcast journalism
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Imagine yourself as Linsey Vonn yesterday – a native of Saint Paul, Minnesota, who has been working her whole life, since she was 2 years old, to bring home an Olympic gold in women’s downhill skiing.
She finally does it, gives hugs to her family in ...[Read on] |
Why Obama Can’t Make Kids Healthy (a different take on the nutrition bill)
| Pens don’t make change, actions do. A few days ago, President Obama signed a nutrition bill. Also known as the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act 2010. People ooh & awed. Yay! We have ANOTHER bill. This will make the obesity crisis diminish. And we won...[Read on] |
How to Stand Up to the Inevitable Mean Girl
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The wrath of a downright mean girl is not easily avoided. Although you may be tempted to run, there’s no need to hide. You possess the power to rise above the unnecessary vindictiveness of a mean girl.
Recent violence in schools among girls has bro...[Read on] |
Two teen girls transform the tennis world
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Teenagers Melanie Oudin and Yanina Wickmayer were a hit at the U.S. Open in New York last month, arriving as unseeded talents and emerging as legitimate competitors. Wickmayer went deepest in the Open draw but Oudin, sporting the word “Believe” on h...[Read on] |
Thinking about Lombardi on Broadway
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I have had a lot of coaches in my life. I have only recently begun to understand why they matter so much.
Or, not why they matter. Everyone knows why coaches matter – they tell you what to do, they organize teams, teach plays, make judgment calls and a...[Read on] |
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