I have written before about women’s sports like basketball and soccer. I think it’s a great idea that the U.S. has professional women-only leagues like the WNBA and WPS. As for the youth leagues in those sports, I think it makes sense for girls and boys to play together in their younger years and then [...]
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A few weeks ago, I saw the Roller Derby movie “Whip It.” It wasn’t great, but was fun and poignant. (See this review from the always interesting reviews on Bitch Flicks, from where I obtained this photo.) Today, I saw that Roller Derby is becoming popular in Scotland.
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Tracee Hamilton, a new sports columnist for the Washington Post, wrote a column today, following up on the Erin Andrews case, discussing stalking and victim-blaming. It’s a rather personal column, as she opens up about a stalker who followed her for years, instilling terror and helplessness in her for more years to follow. It’s a [...]
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ESPN reporter Erin Andrews is back in the news again because, last night, she did her first college football sideline reporting since the incident in July when someone took a video of her naked through a hotel room peephole and then posted the video on the internet. (See my previous posts on July 22 and [...]
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Hope Solo is the goalkeeper for the U.S. women’s soccer team. She is the best, or one of the best, in the world. She is probably most known by casual soccer fans for what happened in the 2007 World Cup. She had been the starting keeper during the entire year and the first round games, [...]
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It should come as no shock that another sports personality has admitted to an extra-marital sexual encounter. Apparently, Rick Pitino’s contract with the University of Louisaville has a “morals clause” (“acts of moral depravity“) that, arguably, will allow the University to claim that he has breached the contract and therefore provide easy ground for firing [...]
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Christine Brennan has been covering sports for 28 years. I first followed her when she covered the Washington Redskins for the Washington Post. She now writes for USA Today and, since I don’t read that paper often, I haven’t read much from, or about, her in years. Nevertheless, I have always had a high opinion [...]
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There’s something strange about the way the University of Notre Dame is being silent about the latest controversy related to its football team. The controversy is about University of Hawaii football coach, Greg McMackin, using the term “this little faggot dance” to describe a dance performed by Notre Dame players at a banquet prior to [...]
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