Tag Archive | college
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 [...]
Montana Football Has a Sexual Assault Problem
The Big Lead reported in January that the University of Montana has been investigating five sexual assault cases, two of which involve players on the football team. The story summarizes: “Incidents suggest a disturbing pattern of normal underreporting the crime, combined with poor handling by university officials and special treatment for football players.” The report describes [...]
Weekend Links Post
Happy Friday! You may be busy with family engagements this weekend, but if you’d like to get away for a bit, here are some things we’ve been reading around the internet this week. Discussion and suggestions for how to reverse the trend of declining women coaches in college level sports. Addressing homophobia at colleges and universities is an [...]
#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 [...]
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 [...]
