You might know from some of my posts that I’m a fan of women’s (and men’s) sports. But it’s always been frustrating for me to find the results of women’s events. CNN.com is my primary source for sports but there is almost no women’s coverage there. On its main sports page, CNN has these tab [...]
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Politics and sports and women. Again we have the intermingling of the powerful men in a world sports organization with women athletes and politics. Last week, in an Olympic qualifying round in Amman, Jordan, FIFA (the world soccer governing body) officials refused to allow the Iranian national women’s team to compete in a match with [...]
Filed under: Burqa and Other Veils, International, Race/Ethnicity, Religion, Sports | Tagged: Burqa, FIFA, Football, Iran, Soccer | 5 Comments »
Many people have been following the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Kim Clijsters won the women’s single title and Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are playing for the men’s title today. But there was another singles title awarded yesterday. It was to Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands, who won her fifth U.S Open [...]
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Karen Cunagin Sypher was found guilty of attempting to extort money from University of Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino after the two had a sexual encounter in a Louisville restaurant in 2003. Although Sypher had claimed that Pitino raped her, no charges were ever brought against Pitino. Pitino is married and the father of [...]
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What I’m about to say will fall into the “typical feminist buzzkill” stereotype– but, hey, it wouldn’t be the first time: While most of you are undoubtedly watching the World Cup US v. Ghana game, think about the following: During one typical 90 minute game, 317 women in South Africa will be raped. It isn’t [...]
Filed under: International, Sports, Violence | Tagged: Rape, sexual assault, south africa, world cup | 4 Comments »
As I’m sure you know, ESPN sets the tone for sports highlights with its daily Sports Center program. In fact, you could probably say that Sports Center is ESPN since each day the show runs for 14 hours (live and reruns) and the catch-calls of its announcers become famous. You would think that it could [...]
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In March, the Women’s Rights section of change.org had an article about the decades-old pattern of male swim coaches molesting female swimmers. The article said that: A suit filed in California alleges that the the governing body of U.S. competitive swimming has failed to address widespread sexual abuse of young girls at swim clubs across [...]
Filed under: Harassment, Law, Sports, Violence | Tagged: Deena Deardurff Schmidt, Everett Uchiyama, Swimming, USA Swimming | Leave a Comment »
Title IX, passed by Congress in 1972, prohibited gender discrimination in educational programs and activities receiving federal financing. The biggest impact was on sports in high schools and colleges. The law requires that universities perform multiple steps to determine whether women are being provided with equal opportunities to participate in sports at the university. One [...]
Filed under: Education, Sports | Tagged: Arne Duncan, Joe Biden, Title IX | 1 Comment »
There have been some interesting reports lately about women and sports. The Asian Football Confederation (the governing body sanctioned by FIFA to control soccer in the Asia region), has ruled that the Iran girls’ soccer team cannot compete in the six-nation soccer tournament in Singapore that is part of the 3,600 athlete Youth Olympics. The [...]
Filed under: Sports | Tagged: Burka, Burqa and Other Veils, Elaine Joyce, Football, Golf, Hijab, Iran, Martha Burk, Soccer, Tiger Woods | Leave a Comment »
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