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Links Post: Everything That’s Been Sitting in our Inbox Edition
Sometimes we save up articles for a links post and then forget to do one. Sometimes there are news items we discuss writing about but don’t get around to it. Sometimes we’re just busy. Or lazy. This edition of the Links Post is the result of all four. SNY Anchor Kirk Giminez Tweets, Then Deletes [...]
We’ll say it again – IT’S OPENING DAY!!!!
Baseball is FINALLY here, the long cold winter months are over, and happiness simply does not describe how we feel. Because in baseball, things like this happen: And things like this happen: Thank you Earth, for turning on your axis and rotating around the sun so that Opening Day can come and baseball can be [...]
Our Thoughts on Steubenville
This post was written by both of us. We’ve been eyeing the Steubenville rape case for months now, in which two high school students – Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond – were accused of assaulting and raping a female high school student. After a couple of days of trial, the juvenile court judge rendered a [...]
Links Post: Superbowl Round-Up
Friends, America’s favorite holiday is upon us: it’s Super Bowl weekend. We at Bloomer Girls will be watching the big game among friends and a ridiculous amount of Baltimore-, San Francisco- and New Orleans-themed food at Lydia’s house. Whether you’ll be watching or avoiding, whether you have a horse in this race or you’re watching [...]
Happy New Year Links Post!
Happy New Year to all our readers! We took some time off around the holiday season, but we’re ready to ring in 2013 with more posts. Here’s hoping the new year brings with it more equality for female sports fans and reporters, increased success for female athletes and women’s professional sports teams, and greater respect [...]
Wisconsin Law School Title IX and Transgender Rights Symposium
The University of Wisconsin School of Law’s Journal of Law, Gender & Society has announced its 2013 symposium will be entitled “Transcending Gender Lines: Title IX and Transgender Rights.” Are you a legal scholar or practitioner interested in participating? Check out the details over at Feminist Law Professors.
Olympic Round-Up, Part II
Here are links to some more fantastic articles about the Olympics that we’ve been discussing this week. A truly fantastic piece from Metro Boston(Metro? Really? Isn’t that the newspaper that they hand out at the subway stops? Yes. It is.) about what would happen if we photographed all of the Olympic sports the same way [...]
McKayla Maroney is a Boss
McKayla Maroney, holy shit. That’s a link to her incredible vault broken down into slow-mo by Deadspin. Go watch it. Seriously, you will not regret it.
Olympic Round-Up
As we’ve stated previously, here at Bloomer Girls Blog, we’re obsessed with the Olympics and so excited to get together tonight to watch the (taped) Opening Ceremonies with our friends. So today, for our usual Friday Links, we’re sharing our favorites from posts leading up to the opening of the games. Sporty Style: 7 Inspiring [...]
Links Post
We may be consumed with reading yesterday’s 193-page healthcare decision and all the corresponding analysis, but we also found time for some Bloomer Girls-related reading. Check it out: The Big Lead has a piece on hurdler Lolo Jones’s appearance on Jay Leno. Jones placed third in the U.S. hurdling qualifiers. So why didn’t first place Dawn [...]
