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Sky Sports Prioritizes League One Final Over FA Women’s Cup PKs
The UK news outlet Birmingham Mail reported Monday on a broadcasting decision by Sky Sports, a large British media company that airs sports content across several channels. The FA Women’s Cup Final was broadcast on Sky Sports 2, and was an exciting match between the Birmingham City Ladies and the Chelsea Ladies. Birmingham City tied the match 2-2 in [...]
World Badminton Federation Drops Plan to Force Female Athletes to Wear Skirts
Last year, the World Badminton Federation instituted a policy that all of its female competitors would have to wear skirts while competing. Although they claimed that this wasn’t about promoting sex appeal, the Deputy President of the all-male federation, Paisan Rangsikitpho, stated that “[w]e just want them to look feminine and have a nice presentation [...]
Women’s Professional Soccer Folds
Last Friday, Women’s Professional Soccer announced it was officially folding after three years of operation. The announcement seemed all but inevitable, as the league was embroiled in a legal battle with one of its team owners and had already announced it was suspending this year’s season. But still, barf. Inevitability is the consensus around the [...]
CBC Panders to Gender Stereotypes
Friend of Bloomer Girls Blog Genevieve sent this story over last night, which plays right into Things We Hate: assuming that women don’t like sports. The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), which airs NHL (National Hockey League) games in Canada (popularly known as “Hockey Night in Canada”), announced that it would be broadcasting “While the Men [...]
American Boxer Claressa Shields Qualifies for London Olympics
Some great news out of the women’s boxing World Championships held in China: 17 year-old American boxer Claressa Shields has qualified for the London Olympics. Shields earned one of the continental Americas’ berths to the 2012 London Games when England boxer Savannah Marshall, who had previously defeated Shields in the competition, won her semifinal match [...]
High School Would Rather Forfeit Championship Baseball Game than Play Against a Girl
Couldn’t let the weekend begin without sharing this unfortunate story coming out Arizona, a state which is normally such a beacon of human rights: Two high schools, Mesa Prepatory Academy and Our Lady of Sorrows, were set to play the Arizona Charter Athletic Association championship baseball game on Thursday. That is, until Our Lady of Sorrows forfeited [...]
Weekend Links Post
As we often do on Fridays, here are some links to articles we’ve found particularly interesting this week: Two updates on the Montana football rape cases we’ve previously discussed here: at Title IX blog, they’re discussing how the Department of Justice has started an investigation into how Missoula, Montana has handled rape and sexual assault [...]
UConn Women’s Basketball Moves to SNY
For the past 18 years, the UConn Women’s Basketball team games have been broadcast on CPTV (Connecticut Public Television.) Reaching 80,000 households, CPTV devoted a lot of its resources to broadcasting over 400 games in that time. Now that this academic year is over and their four-year contract has expired, however, the UConn Athletic Department [...]
Junior Seau’s Death is a Feminist Issue
In news that deeply saddened the football and sports communities last week, linebacker Junior Seau killed himself by gunshot wound to the chest. He was just 43 years-old and had an illustrious 20-season career. The significance of the decision to shoot himself in the chest is not lost on those privy to a devastating problem across all contact sports: players [...]
Somali Women Train for the Olympics
At the end of last month, Feministing featured an article about some of the breakthroughs happening with female athletes in Somalia. Typically, women haven’t been able to participate in sports, but a male coach is training ten women for the 400-meter run. The Somali Athletics Federation will select one runner from the ten trainees to [...]
