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Weekend Links
Happy Friday! Here are some stories that we wanted to highlight for your weekend reading: Cheerleading used to be a men’s-only sport. Three U.S. Presidents were cheerleaders (Eisenhower, F. Roosevelt, Reagan) and in terms of masculinity, it was considered equivalent to playing football. Women didn’t start cheering until World War I, when men were deployed [...]
Graduation Rates, Earning Potential, and Gender Scrutiny: Why the NCAA Tournament Makes Me Angry
Today we have a guest post from our friend Mike! Mike is an avid sports fan who probably knows more about the Yankees than you do. He adopted a three-legged pit before Parks & Recreation made it cool, and is an expert at Martini Time. Follow him on Twitter @M_Garcia36. ******* I am a sports [...]
Who Watches Women’s Basketball?
Last night I was able to watch some of the women’s NCAA basketball tournament (which was broadcast on ESPN.) I caught the second half of the Tennessee-Baylor game, and the first half of the Duke-Stanford game. Although neither team I was cheering for won their game (without any allegiances I cheer for the underdogs), I [...]
Tim Tebow Plays in New York Now
Well, as of last week, controversial NFL quarterback Tim Tebow is a New York Jet, and the thought of him gracing the back pages of the Post and Daily News every day makes me none too pleased. Tebow was signed as the Jets’ back-up quarterback; earlier this off-season the Jets signed their starting quarterback, Mark Sanchez, to a three-year [...]
“The Hunger Games” and Positive Female Athleticism
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past three months or so, you know that the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games, a novel by Suzanne Collins, opened today (with midnight showings all over the country.) I was lucky enough to attend a preview screening of the movie on Thursday evening, and in [...]
Obama’s Presidency is the Best Ever for Women’s Sports
Last night, I finally got around to listening to the B.S. Report podcast in which Bill Simmons, longtime writer for ESPN, Editor-in-Chief of Grantland, and total Boston sports homer, interviewed President Obama about his views on sports, his experiences with the professional sports world as President, and the identity of the best Wire character. Okay, that [...]
ESPN’s Differential Treatment of the NCAA Tournaments
The March Madness tournaments are well on their way, and in both my bracket challenges, it’s still (almost) anyone’s game. I’ve been following the games on my phone, live streaming them on my computer, and obsessively staring at my bracket. Wait, that’s brackets. As I suggested last week, more ESPN users fill out brackets for the men’s tournament than the [...]
March is for High School Basketball, Too
Murray Bergtraum High School in downtown Manhattan isn’t known for much, other than its students rioting after having bathroom privileges taken away (seriously, it’s a high school) and fights between the police and high schoolers (yup, seriously, still a high school), so it was nice to see an article about the school with a different [...]
Why Would I Wear This?: Old Navy Edition
Yesterday, I received an email from Old Navy touting their new line of sports apparel. They’ve been doing this for a while now – licensing sports trademarks for t-shirts and the like – so I wasn’t surprised to see a section of MLB and college team gear labeled the “Superfan Nation.” Leaving aside how lame [...]
