The darker side of the rise of women’s sports: With more visibility comes more online harassment
5 days, 3 hours ago

The darker side of the rise of women’s sports: With more visibility comes more online harassment

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — For Djaniele Taylor, attending WNBA games was the perfect way to rediscover a sense of community coming out of the long slog of pandemic-era lockdowns. Connecticut Sun forward Alyssa Thomas celebrates a basket while being fouled during the second half in Game 2 of a first-round WNBA basketball playoff series against the Indiana Fever, Sept. 25, 2024, in Uncasville, Conn. Connecticut Sun forward Alyssa Thomas celebrates a basket while being fouled during the second half in Game 2 of a first-round WNBA basketball playoff series against the Indiana Fever, Sept. 25, 2024, in Uncasville, Conn. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print For her part, Clark has disavowed the toxic discourse, though some say she hasn’t done enough to try to rein in the racism by some of her Indiana Fever fans. ”Treating every single woman in this league with the same amount of respect, I think, it’s just a basic human thing that everybody should do.” At the end of the 2024 season after facing some criticism for initially failing to condemn the harassment, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said, “There’s no place in sports for this,” and vowed to attack it “multidimensionally.” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert speaks at a news conference before Game 1 of basketball’s WNBA Finals between the Connecticut Sun and the Washington Mystics, on Sept. 29, 2019, in Washington. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print The issue of transgender women competing in women’s sports has been highly polarized this year. The San Jose State Spartans logo is seen on the net during the third set of an NCAA college volleyball match against the Air Force Falcons, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print About half of U.S. states have a ban on transgender athletes participating in school sports according to their gender identity.

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From Caitlin Clark and Simone Biles to a new hockey league, women’s sports had a pivotal year
6 days, 1 hour ago

From Caitlin Clark and Simone Biles to a new hockey league, women’s sports had a pivotal year

Associated Press  

Record numbers of basketball fans filled arenas to watch the rookie seasons of Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese unfold. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print FILE- Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, left, signs autographs for Iowa fans after Indiana lost to the Dallas Wings during …

Transgender pool player in court battle after being banned from competing in women’s events
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Transgender pool player in court battle after being banned from competing in women’s events

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A transgender pool champion is taking legal action against one of the …

Women’s basketball isn’t having a moment. This is our new reality
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Women’s basketball isn’t having a moment. This is our new reality

New York Times  

I was in the seventh grade the first time sports writing gave me a visceral feeling. GO DEEPER Paige Bueckers vs. JuJu Watkins: How UConn, USC stars will keep women's basketball in spotlight Defending champion South Carolina sold out its season ticket packages for the first time in program history. Limited season tickets remain for XL Center games ➡️ https://t.co/SLhPATBr4S …

Paige Bueckers vs. JuJu Watkins: How UConn, USC stars will keep women’s basketball in spotlight
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Paige Bueckers vs. JuJu Watkins: How UConn, USC stars will keep women’s basketball in spotlight

New York Times  

USC head coach Lindsay Gottlieb noticed a stranger approaching. Kevin Hart was in attendance to see JuJu Watkins and the USC Women’s Basketball team ✌️#ncaaw #fighton pic.twitter.com/31PLjQDknN — WNBA Got Game December 20, 2023 Bueckers, who won national Player of the Year as a freshman four years ago, is in her final season at UConn. Watkins’ and Bueckers’ play, storylines …

Transgender College Basketball Player Speaks Out About Verbal, Physical Mistreatment
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Transgender College Basketball Player Speaks Out About Verbal, Physical Mistreatment

Associated Press  

A transgender college basketball player in Canada has come forward to speak out about her experiences of verbal and physical mistreatment during a game. The player, Harriette Mackenzie, said she was targeted by her opponents after her coach told her she shouldn't be allowed to play against women. Mackenzie shared a video from the game where she was physically attacked, …

Gender inequality and sexism in sports
3 months ago

Gender inequality and sexism in sports

Hindustan Times  

Conflict has remained at the centre-stage of international relations across various epochs of global history. Even in China, where immediately after the creation of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong stated “Women hold up half the sky”, deeply rooted sexist attitudes find their way even into sports. Just the way it is in the most powerful country of the …

More TV opportunities are helping fuel the rapid growth of women’s college volleyball
3 months, 2 weeks ago

More TV opportunities are helping fuel the rapid growth of women’s college volleyball

Associated Press  

MILWAUKEE — Just watch us once and you’ll be hooked. That is the message women’s college volleyball programs kept delivering as their sport went relatively unnoticed, struggling to find a television home amid the flurry of football games dominating screens each fall. The three biggest crowds for a women’s college volleyball match all happened in the last year, including 92,003 …

Opinion: The WNBA Has Always Been Tough. It's The Men Who Can't Stop Crying
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: The WNBA Has Always Been Tough. It's The Men Who Can't Stop Crying

Huff Post  

Women’s sports have started to gain the modicum of popularity they deserve. What a joke.” The real joke is the idea that these women athletes should be viewed as delicate flowers in need of rescuing by their growing fanbase — and not as fierce competitors with natural on-the-court rivals who, like their male counterparts, are vying for a “W.” In …

Caitlin Clark responds to WNBA star A'ja Wilson's claims that her meteoric rise comes down to her race
7 months, 1 week ago

Caitlin Clark responds to WNBA star A'ja Wilson's claims that her meteoric rise comes down to her race

Daily Mail  

Caitlin Clark has responded to WNBA star Aj'a Wilson's claims that her meteoric rise in popularity comes down to her race ahead of her league debut on Wednesday. Just a day after Wilson, a power forward for the Las Vegas Aces, told The Associated Press that her 'blood boils' when people refuse to believe that ethnicity is a factor in …

'I'm not playing a man in a women's event': British female darts star FORFEITS a tournament as she refuses to face a transgender player - and calls for a ban after she won two women's titles
7 months, 2 weeks ago

'I'm not playing a man in a women's event': British female darts star FORFEITS a tournament as she refuses to face a transgender player - and calls for a ban after she won two women's titles

Daily Mail  

A British female darts star has forfeit her chance to the win the Denmark Open after refusing to face a transgender player, calling for the sport to ban those athletes born as biological men. Deta Hedman has pulled out of the Denmark Open after refusing to face a transgender rival She had been due to face Noa-Lynn van Leuven but …

Women’s Basketball Could Be Huge. Will Men Let It?
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Women’s Basketball Could Be Huge. Will Men Let It?

Slate  

This is Emotional Investment, Joel Anderson’s column about money and how we think about it. “We were born too soon,” said Molly Kazmer, who in June 1978 became the first player signed to the Women’s Professional Basketball League, or WBL, which is believed to have been the first pro league for women in the U.S. Then known as Molly “Machine …

Megan Rapinoe talks business of women’s sports, the Caitlin Clark effect, USWNT and more
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Megan Rapinoe talks business of women’s sports, the Caitlin Clark effect, USWNT and more

New York Times  

Five months after her final NWSL game — a send-off no one could have anticipated, with an Achilles’ tendon tear that robbed her of a “perfect ending” with the Seattle Reign — Megan Rapinoe is finally starting to stretch her legs again in the world of women’s sports. “Everybody felt it was what the game deserved and what fans of …

NAIA bans transgender athletes from women’s sports; NCAA vows to ensure ‘fair competition’
8 months, 2 weeks ago

NAIA bans transgender athletes from women’s sports; NCAA vows to ensure ‘fair competition’

The Hindu  

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at its 241 mostly small colleges across the country. Instead, they send a message of exclusion and reinforce dangerous stereotypes that harm all women.” Last month, more than a dozen current and former college athletes filed a federal lawsuit …

The NCAA women’s tourney had everything: stars, upsets, an undefeated champion. It’s just the start
8 months, 2 weeks ago

The NCAA women’s tourney had everything: stars, upsets, an undefeated champion. It’s just the start

Associated Press  

CLEVELAND — It isn’t just Caitlin Clark. While the two-time Associated Press Player of the Year understands her impact on the women’s NCAA Tournament during the Hawkeyes’ run to a second straight title game — with the sellouts she played in front of, the historic TV ratings and all those commercials, it was hard to miss — Clark never forgot …

Caitlin Clark, Iowa lose NCAA basketball final; win big on women’s sport
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Caitlin Clark, Iowa lose NCAA basketball final; win big on women’s sport

Al Jazeera  

Clark missed out on US collegiate basketball’s greatest prize, but her game captured the imagination of fans everywhere. “When I think about women’s basketball going forward, obviously it’s going to continue to grow, whether it’s at the college level or the WNBA level,” Clark said of her legacy. “When you continue to give them the platform, things like this are …

South Carolina women’s hoops coach Dawn Staley says transgender athletes should be allowed to play
8 months, 2 weeks ago

South Carolina women’s hoops coach Dawn Staley says transgender athletes should be allowed to play

Associated Press  

CLEVELAND — South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley said Saturday that she believes transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. But I know it’s an important issue for another time.” The topic has become a hot-button issue among conservative groups and others who believe transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete on girls’ and women’s …

Women’s basketball growth helped by star players, more media coverage, rules changes
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Women’s basketball growth helped by star players, more media coverage, rules changes

Associated Press  

CLEVELAND — Women’s basketball has grown in popularity over the past few years thanks in no small part to the sensational play of Caitlin Clark. I think there’s great players on the men’s and women’s side,” Purdue center Zach Edey said. “There’s just more media coverage now which helps immensely from a brand perspective,” said Sara Gotfredson, who founded the …

LeBron James says popularity of women’s basketball is due to familiar stars
8 months, 2 weeks ago

LeBron James says popularity of women’s basketball is due to familiar stars

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — LeBron James figures there’s at least one obvious explanation for the surging popularity of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. I think the popularity comes in is the icons that they have in the women’s game,” James said after his Los Angeles Lakers beat Washington on Wednesday night. And that’s just to name a few — the freshman that’s …

The women’s NCAA Tournament is having a big moment that has also been marred by missteps
8 months, 2 weeks ago

The women’s NCAA Tournament is having a big moment that has also been marred by missteps

Associated Press  

PORTLAND, Ore. — A huge disparity between the men’s and women’s weight rooms drew attention to the women’s NCAA Tournament for all the wrong reasons in 2021, starting a conversation about equity that has carried over into today. The players were ultimately moved closer to Spokane, but there were questions about logistics, like why both men’s and women’s games were …

NCAA investment in a second women’s basketball tournament emerges as a big hit in Indy
8 months, 2 weeks ago

NCAA investment in a second women’s basketball tournament emerges as a big hit in Indy

Associated Press  

INDIANAPOLIS — As the eagerly anticipated LSU-Iowa women’s rematch was about to tip off, Washington State coach Kamie Ethridge took a seat in Indianapolis, lamented her team’s season-ending loss and celebrated another milestone moment for the sport. Inside one of the sport’s venerable venues, Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse, Ethridge was one of many players and coaches gushing about the opportunities this …

The women’s NCAA Tournament had center stage. The stars, and the games, delivered in a big way
8 months, 3 weeks ago

The women’s NCAA Tournament had center stage. The stars, and the games, delivered in a big way

Associated Press  

There were plenty of people at a movie theater in central Iowa on Monday night, though very few of them were watching an actual movie. Rapper Travis Scott told his nearly 12 million followers on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, that Monday “might be one for the illest days in women’s sports historyyyyyyy.” And Hall of Famer Magic …

Granderson: Caitlin Clark is having a moment. She shouldn't be the only one
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Granderson: Caitlin Clark is having a moment. She shouldn't be the only one

LA Times  

I’ve been covering women’s sports on and off for more than 20 years — and not just Venus and Serena. And in 2007, when the NCAA-history-making basketball star was Oklahoma’s Courtney Paris — and not Iowa’s Caitlin Clark — I wrote this about her: “She’s strong and athletic and confident, and she and others like her make a lot of …

Caitlin, Angel, Paige, JuJu and more. The March Madness star power this year is all about the women
9 months ago

Caitlin, Angel, Paige, JuJu and more. The March Madness star power this year is all about the women

Associated Press  

As March Madness is set to tip off, three of the most recognizable names in college basketball are in the women’s tournament: Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers. “One thousand percent we’ve seen a shift in just the perception of women’s college basketball in general,” USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb said. They’re all visible.” ESPN said it just saw the …

Women's NCAA tournament slam dunks on the men this year
9 months ago

Women's NCAA tournament slam dunks on the men this year

LA Times  

The brackets for the two 2024 NCAA basketball tournaments have been announced and already there is one shining moment. “It’s March Madness, you have two Southern California women’s teams hosting the first two rounds of the tournament, get on board, let’s sell out both arenas, let’s go, it’s pretty tremendous!” Women’s college basketball these days is indeed pretty tremendous, with …

UConn, Iowa, Louisville and Tennessee to participate in Women’s Champions Classic
10 months, 1 week ago

UConn, Iowa, Louisville and Tennessee to participate in Women’s Champions Classic

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — UConn, Iowa, Louisville and Tennessee will take part in the inaugural Women’s Champions Classic on Dec. 7. “The Women’s Champions Classic is the next step in Fox Sports’ longstanding commitment to elevating women’s athletics, and we are eager to showcase these student-athletes at the highest level – in primetime on the Fox broadcast network,” said Executive Vice …

After securing media rights deal for women’s college basketball, NCAA president must do even more
11 months, 2 weeks ago

After securing media rights deal for women’s college basketball, NCAA president must do even more

New York Times  

The long-awaited media rights deal for women’s college basketball is here. With the momentum women’s basketball has captured in recent years and its broadcasting deal expiring at an opportune moment, coaches had made public pushes for the NCAA to put the women’s basketball media rights deal on the free market. Because while the ink might be dry on this contract, …

Content is still king: Landmark deal with ESPN to boost a broad range of NCAA sports
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Content is still king: Landmark deal with ESPN to boost a broad range of NCAA sports

LA Times  

LSU’s Angel Reese shoots during the second half of the NCAA Women’s Final Four championship basketball game against Iowa on April 2, 2023, in Dallas. The agreement is worth roughly three times the annual value of the current deal, and the NCAA said production and marketing costs assumed by ESPN would add another $25 million to $30 million per year. …

NCAA signs lucrative TV deal for championships, but keeps women’s basketball in bundle
11 months, 2 weeks ago

NCAA signs lucrative TV deal for championships, but keeps women’s basketball in bundle

New York Times  

The NCAA on Thursday said it had reached an eight-year agreement with ESPN worth $115 million annually to televise 40 college sports championships each year, including the marquee Division I women’s basketball tournament that many people within college sports had hoped would be primed for even bigger returns given a wave of recent popularity. Ultimately, the NCAA and ESPN agreed …

What does the NCAA’s new media rights agreement mean for women’s college basketball?
11 months, 2 weeks ago

What does the NCAA’s new media rights agreement mean for women’s college basketball?

New York Times  

The NCAA on Thursday announced a new eight-year, $920 million media rights agreement with ESPN, a contract that will keep 40 championships bundled together through 2032. Pros: NCAA president Charlie Baker said the deal values women’s basketball at $65 million per year, about 10 times more as it is currently valued under its deal that ends with the 2023-24 season. …

Women’s college basketball is having a moment. The NCAA needs to seize it
1 year, 1 month ago

Women’s college basketball is having a moment. The NCAA needs to seize it

New York Times  

Shortly after the women’s NCAA Tournament set viewership and attendance records last year as LSU took down Iowa for the championship, the Charlotte Sports Foundation began making calls to see about hosting a major women’s basketball game to kick off the 2023-24 season. pic.twitter.com/shI90qCCiD — Front Office Sports November 10, 2023 But you also don’t normally have the women’s national …

Caitlin Clark’s production and panache make her a women’s basketball ambassador, a role she embraces
1 year, 1 month ago

Caitlin Clark’s production and panache make her a women’s basketball ambassador, a role she embraces

Associated Press  

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Her likeness was sculptured out of butter at the state fair and a tribute to her was a highlight for an Iowa marching band football halftime show. “Caitlin has a little bit more attention,” Bluder said, “but when her light shines, it shines on everybody in that locker room, so let’s all enjoy it.” Gabbie Marshall …

Summer of female sporting events inspires millions of women to get back into the game
1 year, 2 months ago

Summer of female sporting events inspires millions of women to get back into the game

The Independent  

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ESPN exec on preserving women’s college hoops, NBA, CFP TV properties: ‘We’ll be very aggressive’
1 year, 4 months ago

ESPN exec on preserving women’s college hoops, NBA, CFP TV properties: ‘We’ll be very aggressive’

New York Times  

Expect ESPN to be very aggressive in trying to keep three of its core sports TV properties in place. With women’s college basketball, the NBA and the College Football Playoff all due for new television deals in the near future, ESPN president of content Burke Magnus said this week that the network intends to try to preserve a foothold in …

Like Steph Curry? Or Katie Smith? On comparing women’s players to NBA vs. WNBA stars
1 year, 6 months ago

Like Steph Curry? Or Katie Smith? On comparing women’s players to NBA vs. WNBA stars

New York Times  

Diana Taurasi is an impassioned and opinionated person, and when a person offering opinions also has the gravitas of being on the short list of the greatest players in the history of her sport, which is where Taurasi sits, there is a bit of an E.F. Hutton impact: People listen. Last Thursday, during a Phoenix Mercury post-practice media availability, Taurasi …

Transgender basketball player ruled ineligible for semi-pro women’s league
1 year, 8 months ago

Transgender basketball player ruled ineligible for semi-pro women’s league

The Hindu  

A transgender basketball player’s bid to play in an Australian semi-professional women’s league has been refused by Basketball Australia, the national governing body said on Tuesday. Lexi Rodgers made an application late last year to play for the Kilsyth Cobras women’s team in the National Basketball League 1 South competition in the southern state of Victoria. “BA assesses eligibility of …

U.S. would bar full ban on transgender athletes but allow exceptions
1 year, 8 months ago

U.S. would bar full ban on transgender athletes but allow exceptions

LA Times  

Schools and colleges across the U.S. would be prohibited from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes under a Biden administration proposal released Thursday, but teams could create some limits in certain cases — for example, to ensure fairness. Under the Education Department’s proposed rule, no school or college that receives federal funding would be allowed to impose a “one-size-fits-all” policy …

Angel Reese’s trash-talking, Caitlin Clark’s taunting are good for women’s basketball
1 year, 8 months ago

Angel Reese’s trash-talking, Caitlin Clark’s taunting are good for women’s basketball

New York Times  

DALLAS — Not even three hours after the final LSU women’s basketball player left the court Sunday night as a national champion, the court itself had already disappeared. GO DEEPER LSU vs. Iowa draws record 9.9 million viewers One woman, in particular — LSU’s Angel Reese — had the audacity to show some emotion and talk some trash. ANGEL REESE …

Column: Angel Reese isn’t harming women’s sports. Her pearl-clutching critics are
1 year, 8 months ago

Column: Angel Reese isn’t harming women’s sports. Her pearl-clutching critics are

LA Times  

LSU’s Angel Reese, right, reacts in front of Iowa’s Caitlin Clark during the NCAA Women’s Final Four championship basketball game on Sunday. Two major upsets — LSU’s defeat of Virginia Tech and Iowa’s win over South Carolina — led to a final in which sophomore Angel Reese and the deep bench of LSU overcame the phenomenal star power of Iowa …

Girls high school basketball team forfeits tournament rather than play against transgender player
1 year, 9 months ago

Girls high school basketball team forfeits tournament rather than play against transgender player

CNN  

CNN — A Vermont girls high school basketball team forfeited an out of state tournament after refusing to play against a team that had a transgender player. Mid Vermont Christian School was set to play Long Trail School on February 21, but MVCS forfeited the game due to a transgender player on Long Trail’s roster, according to the head of …

First Season of Women's Pro Basketball League Set for March Debut
1 year, 9 months ago

First Season of Women's Pro Basketball League Set for March Debut

News 18  

To give budding hoopsters in the country a chance to figure in some top action, Elite Pro Basketball has announced a women’s league which will see 72 athletes making the cut in 6 teams. The League will see budding hoopsters of the country getting an opportunity to rub shoulders with some big names in a 5X5 Pro Basketball League featuring …

In NBA All-Star spotlight, Utah looks to change perceptions
1 year, 10 months ago

In NBA All-Star spotlight, Utah looks to change perceptions

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — In the 1990s, Dallas Mavericks point guard Derek Harper famously shot down an offer to be traded to the Jazz, quipping to ESPN: “You go live in Utah.” Two decades later, members of the Golden State Warriors squad mocked Salt Lake as a nightlife-free city that could “lull you to sleep.” And two months ago, former …

Protest over inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports held outside NCAA Convention
1 year, 11 months ago

Protest over inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports held outside NCAA Convention

CNN  

CNN — A small group of demonstrators gathered outside the NCAA Convention in San Antonio on Thursday to protest the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s college sports. Speaking outside the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Gaines said to NCAA officials: “We’ve created a petition with almost 10,000 signatures from people around the country who want to support keeping female …

Demonstrators protest NCAA’s transgender athlete inclusion
1 year, 11 months ago

Demonstrators protest NCAA’s transgender athlete inclusion

Associated Press  

SAN ANTONIO — Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines and about two dozen demonstrators outside the NCAA convention Thursday protested the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports and threatened the association with legal action if it doesn’t change its policies. Eighteen states have passed laws banning transgender athletes from participating in female school sports; a federal judge earlier this month …

Women’s sports saw pivotal growth in deals, interest in 2022
1 year, 11 months ago

Women’s sports saw pivotal growth in deals, interest in 2022

Associated Press  

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has been around women’s basketball long enough to see the growing pains of a young WNBA league gradually shifting to increased interest in the sport at all levels. Popularity across women’s sports has grown steadily over the past few years, but 2022 marked a pivotal moment as several sports saw increases in viewership and ratings, …

Battle 4 Atlantis part of bigger spotlight for women’s hoops
2 years, 1 month ago

Battle 4 Atlantis part of bigger spotlight for women’s hoops

Associated Press  

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Texas guard Sonya Morris had long noticed the number of big matchups in early season tournaments to stir men’s college basketball and the buzz that came with them. “I think a lot of are saying, ‘Oh wow, there’s actually value in women’s basketball, we should get involved, too,” said Lea Miller-Tooley, the founder and director of …

US women’s basketball dominates on international stage
2 years, 2 months ago

US women’s basketball dominates on international stage

Associated Press  

SYDNEY — A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart are keenly aware of the legacy of success they are part of with the U.S. women’s basketball team. “It’s been an incredible journey just to continue to lay that foundation down like so many of the greats in front of us have,” Wilson said. “Now it’s our turn to step up and be …

It's Time To End The Sexist Scheduling Of Sporting Events
2 years, 3 months ago

It's Time To End The Sexist Scheduling Of Sporting Events

Huff Post  

Once upon a time, I was married to a basketball star — a woman who dribbled by age 4 and had been drafted, at 17, by one of the top three teams in college basketball. Sure, we’ve been talking about gender inequality in sports for decades, but precious little has been done to ensure that women’s athletics ever become more …

Title IX: Strides for women of color in sports lag under law
2 years, 6 months ago

Title IX: Strides for women of color in sports lag under law

Associated Press  

Once Tina Sloan Green took over the lacrosse program at Temple University in the years after the passage of Title IX, the landmark gender-equity law, she never stopped thinking about the girls who weren’t playing. Title IX was a complete help for women in sports but in my mind, there were still disparities.” For girls of color, some women’s college …

Megan Rapinoe defends transgender athletes in women’s sports, slams critics
2 years, 6 months ago

Megan Rapinoe defends transgender athletes in women’s sports, slams critics

The Independent  

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