Tag Archive | hockey
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 [...]
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 [...]
Closing the Gap in Women’s Hockey
Women’s hockey has been an Olympic sport for many years now, but in that time only the U.S. and Canada have been truly competitive teams (the Olympic and World Championship gold medal game has featured the U.S. and Canada for 14 years straight.) The sport has taken some significant steps towards parity, including the creation [...]
Lexi Peters, Hockey Avatar Extraordinaire
This story is eons old in internet time, but when I first saw it I thought “THE BLOG,” and so here we are. In September 2011, NBC Sports published a story about Lexi Peters, a 14 year-old girl from Buffalo, NY who wanted to customize her team in EA Sports’s video game NHL 12 so that [...]
