Tag Archive | football
We Are Ready For You
More athletes have signed on to the Chris Kluwe/Brendon Ayanbadejo amicus brief filed in the Prop 8/DOMA cases, which will be heard at oral argument today in the Supreme Court. Here’s a short list of some of the highlights: Giants co-owner Steve Tisch, Executive Director of the NFL Players Association Demaurice Smith, Co-Founder of the [...]
Our Thoughts on Steubenville
This post was written by both of us. We’ve been eyeing the Steubenville rape case for months now, in which two high school students – Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond – were accused of assaulting and raping a female high school student. After a couple of days of trial, the juvenile court judge rendered a [...]
Why Would I Wear This?: Super Bowl Ring Edition
As you know, the Ravens won the Super Bowl on Sunday, which means immediate mass production of purple “Super Bowl XLVII Champions” gear. One such item on NFLShop.com caught our eye: Sports aside, I hate the stereotype of the girl desperate to be married. There are lots of reasons to be married (tax status, health insurance, [...]
Links Post: Superbowl Round-Up
Friends, America’s favorite holiday is upon us: it’s Super Bowl weekend. We at Bloomer Girls will be watching the big game among friends and a ridiculous amount of Baltimore-, San Francisco- and New Orleans-themed food at Lydia’s house. Whether you’ll be watching or avoiding, whether you have a horse in this race or you’re watching [...]
BarbaraBowl
In advance of this weekend’s Superbowl game, two of the senators from the teams’ home states have made a little bet on the outcome of the game. Senators Barbara Boxer of California and Barbara Mikulski of Maryland were on Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show yesterday, gently trash talking each other’s teams while looking like they were [...]
Not Liking Sports is Gender-Neutral, Okay Already?!
With the start of the NFL hockey season post-lockout, the hockey blogs finally have something to write about other than “hey, the commissioner was sighted on 6th Avenue this morning!” (I assume…as I don’t actually read any hockey blogs except occasionally The Bakeshop because Katie Baker is super funny.) The NY Rangers recently made a [...]
Pink-Washing the Boys’ Locker Room
Remember a month or two ago when the Powerball was a few hundred million dollars? Maybe you and your coworkers bought a bunch of tickets and drafted a little contract. Maybe you daydreamed about what you’d spend your winnings on: a trip around the world, pay off your student debt, buy a house. Well, you [...]
Update in the Steubenville Rape Case
Two weeks ago Sara wrote about the horrific rape of a 16 year old girl by two Steubenville, OH high school football players. Yesterday, a hacker called KnightSec released a video (which can be seen here on Deadspin [**TRIGGER WARNING**]) of a former Steubenville High student connected to the incident making light of the rape with shocking brazenness. [...]
Rose Bowl Interview Interruption
Yesterday, while watching the end of the Rose Bowl (the Badgers got beat by…a tree?), I saw something that immediately got my attention: Stanford Coach David Shaw was pulled away while mid-interview with ESPN sideline reporter Heather Cox. Cox, obviously shocked as this was a pre-arranged interview and probably thinking her microphone had been muted, [...]
The Sanctity of Being a Male Athlete
We’ve discussed a fair amount of the privilege granted to professional and college athletes because of their athlete status; whether it’s the University of Montana football team or any one of a number of professional athletes who have been embroiled in sexual assault scandals, these athletes often seem to exist on a higher plane than the [...]
