According to a national high school coaches directory, last season there were 15,675 high school football coaches (public and private) and all of them were males. That is about to change. On Friday, Natalie Randolph will be named the head football coach at Coolidge High School in Washington, DC. This is great news! Randolph has [...]
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I’ve always had mixed feelings about this. For a long time, many women’s college basketball teams have used men as “practice players.” The University of Tennessee’s Pat Summitt (the most successful coach ever in college basketball—women or men) is generally considered as the originator, and biggest proponent, of using male practice players. Many other famous [...]
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Today’s Olympics gold medal women’s hockey game matches Canada against the United States. Everyone had expected the two teams to get here and the game should be exciting. (MSNBC at 6:00 eastern.) However, a blog in Newsweek is speculating that the Olympic committee might look to eliminate women’s hockey from future winter Olympics. (See also [...]
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The 1972 Title IX required schools and colleges receiving federal money to provide the same opportunities for girls as they did for boys. Two new studies provide remarkable conclusions about the impact that Title IX has had on women in the United States. There had already been research showing that Title IX resulted in “lower [...]
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The San Antonio Spurs’ George Hill became the second NBA player within a month to apologize for nude pictures of him that popped up on the internet. Previously, the Portland Trailblazers’ Greg Oden apologized for nude photos of him that he had sent to his girlfriend but got onto the internet. Here is what Hill [...]
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Although the Olympics do not offer equal opportunity for women and men, at least they have been making steady progress in giving female athletes more opportunity. And there is even a rule now that any new sports that are added must have events for women as well as men. (I am not aware of any [...]
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Under the headline of “Tebow’s Super Bowl ad isn’t intolerant; its critics are,” well-respected Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins writes today that she thinks that the CBS’ Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad against choice “is one of the better things to happen to young women in some time.” She also essentially writes that she [...]
Filed under: Abortion, Reproductive Rights, Sports | Tagged: Abortion, Sally Jenkins, Super Bowl, Tim Tebow | 6 Comments »
What hypocrisy by the CBS TV network! As you probably know, CBS is allowing a 30-second anti-choice (I always use “anti-choice” rather than the “anti-abortion” used by many) ad to appear during the Super Bowl. It is expected to show Tim Tebow (an ultra-religious very well-known former Heisman-award-winning college quarterback) and his mother, Pam, saying [...]
Filed under: Abortion, GLBT, Reproductive Rights, Sports | Tagged: Abortion, Focus on the Family, James Dobson, Tim Tebow | 1 Comment »
I’ve been as interested as anyone in the Tiger Woods thing. Who knows what will happen next, but everyone will be waiting to see. Eugene Robinson writes a column for the Washington Post and is one of my favorite columnists. I seldom disagree with what he writes. Below, I provide his latest column in its [...]
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I happened to catch a glimpse of the Today Show this morning. The segment was about Julie Chu, who is expected to be a member of the U.S. women’s hockey team at the Vancouver Winter Olympics starting in February, and who has been one of the highest goal scorers in the world. What I found [...]
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