Tag Archive | NCAA
ESPN Still Giving NCAA Women’s Tourney Second-Class Treatment
Last year during March Madness, I wrote about ESPN’s Differential Treatment of the NCAA Tournaments. I looked at how the language used on the site, the features provided for each bracket challenge, and the inability to easily switch between the tournaments results in the women’s tournament garnering less interest and essentially being treated as a [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
What’s Missing From Women’s Tennis? Female Coaches
There’s a great article out of the USA Today this week about the significant lack of female tennis coaches for female professional tennis players (and NCAA-level women’s tennis teams.) Despite the fact that both high-profile players Victoria Azarenka (ranked #1 in the world) and Taylor Townsend (winner of the 2012 Junior Australian Open) have female [...]
UConn Women’s Basketball Moves to SNY
For the past 18 years, the UConn Women’s Basketball team games have been broadcast on CPTV (Connecticut Public Television.) Reaching 80,000 households, CPTV devoted a lot of its resources to broadcasting over 400 games in that time. Now that this academic year is over and their four-year contract has expired, however, the UConn Athletic Department [...]
Legendary Female Basketball Coach Pat Summitt Steps Down
Pat Summitt, the coach for the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team, has announced she is stepping down from her role as head coach. In August 2011 she was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, so the move is not too surprising for college basketball fans, and she will continue to serve the basketball program [...]
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 [...]
