Tag Archive | basketball
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 [...]
Fill Out a Bracket for the March Madness Women’s Tournament!
If I know our readership, you’re either in several March Madness men’s tournament pools or you’re in none. So why not join a bracket challenge for the women’s tournament? Last year, I wrote that people fill out brackets for the men’s tournament far more than for the women’s tournament, myself included. So I’m happy to announce [...]
Some Black Women’s Bodies are Different than White Women’s Bodies. Why Do We Still Care?
Two incidents from last month have gotten me thinking about the differences between black women’s bodies and white women’s bodies, and why people still try to compare them and label one better than the other. Both incidents made jokes at the expense of black women’s bodies. As a white woman interested in sports, I know [...]
Is Different Equal?: Lowering the Rim in Women’s Basketball
Last month NCAA women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma (who we’ve written about on the blog before) stated publicly that in order to make women’s basketball more exciting, the powers that be should lower the rim: What makes fans not want to watch women’s basketball is that some of the players can’t shoot and they miss [...]
Congratulations to Our Bloomer Girls Bracket Winner!
Last night the Baylor Lady Bears beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in an exciting finish to the women’s tournament and March Madness. This also made for an exciting finish in Bloomer Girls Brackets: the bracket in first place before the game had Baylor winning, but the bracket in second place had Notre Dame, so [...]
#kuboobs Fouls Out
Tonight is the NCAA Men’s Championship game, featuring the University of Kansas (“KU”) against The University of Kentucky (“UK”, and no, that’s not going to be confusing at all, why do you ask?) Last week, my friend Paige, a KU alum and self-avowed college sports-ambivalent observer, sent me a link to an article, asking if [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
