Archive | February 2012
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Does Lacrosse Condone a Culture of Violence?
Last Wednesday, a former University of Virginia lacrosse player was found guilty of second-degree murder for killing his ex-girlfriend, a player on the UVA women’s lacrosse team. George Huguely V admitted to kicking down Yeardley Love’s bedroom door during an argument and shaking her as her head hit the wall repeatedly, but claimed Love only had a broken [...]
Why Would I Wear This?: Stiletto Edition
This will undoubtedly be a recurring post, as female sports fans are often misunderstood by marketers. Still, I was not expecting such a good first installment. On Friday, local news blog Gothamist reported that a company called Herstar is now selling this really practical item: Listen, I have plenty of pairs of heels, but unfortunately, [...]
Not Another Ryan Braun Post!: PED Use by Female Athletes
Yesterday afternoon, the internet exploded when news broke that Milwaukee Brewer Ryan Braun had successfully appealed his performance enhancing drug (PED)-related 50-game suspension, becoming the first baseball player ever to do so. The independent arbitrator on the three-person arbitration panel (the other two were representatives from MLB and the MLB Players’ Association), Shyam Das, cast the [...]
Protect Female Journalists, Make Them Wear Sleeves?
One of the most interesting stories to come out of the baseball off-season this year wasn’t Pujols’ decampment for California, or Papelbon’s oversized contract in Philly, or Reyes chopping off his luxurious locks (sorry, Lydia) but a new development for the members of the media who cover them. This year, Major League Baseball (MLB) is [...]
Lexi Peters, Hockey Avatar Extraordinaire
This story is eons old in internet time, but when I first saw it I thought “THE BLOG,” and so here we are. In September 2011, NBC Sports published a story about Lexi Peters, a 14 year-old girl from Buffalo, NY who wanted to customize her team in EA Sports’s video game NHL 12 so that [...]
Our Namesake
When trying to come up with a title for this blog, Lydia and I went through approximately 12,000 different suggestions (yes, A Blog of Their Own is taken and we love her) from our friends and family, not really loving anything that was proposed. It’s hard to strike a balance between emphasizing feminism and attacking [...]
Let the Games Begin!
In late 2011, Lydia approached Sara with an idea: what if we started a blog that dealt with feminism and sports from a different perspective than everything else out there? We both love reading sports blogs and feminism blogs, but the two only intersect when there’s a particularly newsworthy event. We’re big sports fans – [...]
