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Pink Bats: Not Just About Breast Cancer Anymore
On Friday I wrote about pinkwashing in baseball, but I want to take a minute to address the argument that it’s good because it raises money for breast cancer awareness and research. Cancer is serious and sad and horrible. My mom survived breast cancer. For a 28 year old, I probably know an above average [...]
Nine for IX Isn’t Fine
ESPN recently announced the premiere dates for its spin-off from the popular 30 for 30 film series produced by Bill Simmons. Called “Nine for IX,” this is series of nine short films “focused on captivating stories of women in sports told through the lens of female filmmakers.” The topics of these films are: Venus Williams [...]
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 [...]
The Mets’ Marketing-to-Women Problem
A recent study revealed that the New York Mets have more female fans than any other MLB team. As a fan of the Amazins myself, my heart swells with pride. And yet, the Mets — consistent with baseball across the board — still don’t quite get us. Exhibit A, via Metspolice.com, is this Mets press [...]
Another Double Standard: Celebrating Out Male Athletes, Ignoring Out Female Athletes
On Monday, NBA veteran Jason Collins became the first openly gay male professional athlete in America, a huge step forward for American sports, culture and society as a whole. As the mainstream sports media, players, fans, owners and bloggers all reacted to the news, a common untruth was repeated again and again: “Collins is the [...]
NBA Center Jason Collins Comes Out
Today Jason Collins became the first openly gay male professional athlete in America, coming out in a beautifully written front page article in Sports Illustrated. You’re doing yourself a disservice if you don’t read the whole thing, but here are few highlights: I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay. I didn’t set [...]
Boston Strong
My first reaction, upon hearing of the bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, was this: “marathoners are the strongest people I know. Thinking of you, Boston, as I am always.” Then I looked at the time during the race: 4:09. Four hours and nine minutes of running. I can’t run a marathon [...]
Condoleezza Rice Dons Her Green Jacket
It can be challenging to write admirably about someone with whom you disagree so vehemently, and Condoleezza Rice continues to put me in that position by being pretty bad-ass about…well, life. Last week, Rice got her green jacket as one of the first female members of Augusta National. (See our previous coverage of Augusta pre-admitting [...]
ESPN Still Giving NCAA Women’s Tourney Second-Class Treatment
Last year during March Madness, I wrote about ESPN’s Differential Treatment of the NCAA Tournaments. I looked at how the language used on the site, the features provided for each bracket challenge, and the inability to easily switch between the tournaments results in the women’s tournament garnering less interest and essentially being treated as a [...]
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 [...]
