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Happy New Year Links Post!
Happy New Year to all our readers! We took some time off around the holiday season, but we’re ready to ring in 2013 with more posts. Here’s hoping the new year brings with it more equality for female sports fans and reporters, increased success for female athletes and women’s professional sports teams, and greater respect [...]
Links Post
We may be consumed with reading yesterday’s 193-page healthcare decision and all the corresponding analysis, but we also found time for some Bloomer Girls-related reading. Check it out: The Big Lead has a piece on hurdler Lolo Jones’s appearance on Jay Leno. Jones placed third in the U.S. hurdling qualifiers. So why didn’t first place Dawn [...]
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 [...]
Weekend Links Post
It’s Friday! As we sometimes do, today we’re sharing a few articles we read this week: The Toronto Star published a round-up of letters to the news source demanding better coverage of women’s sports. After a Cardinals’ radio ad depicted the team’s fanbase as all-male, the Fearless Leader over at A Blog of Their Own [...]
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 [...]
Weekend Links
Happy Friday! Here are some stories that we wanted to highlight for your weekend reading: Cheerleading used to be a men’s-only sport. Three U.S. Presidents were cheerleaders (Eisenhower, F. Roosevelt, Reagan) and in terms of masculinity, it was considered equivalent to playing football. Women didn’t start cheering until World War I, when men were deployed [...]
