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Wimbledon is going to start making the prize money for female players equal to that available to male players. Welcome to the 21st Century, All England Club!
...read moreFollowup on the Women’s Ski Jumping Mess
Remember how we discovered last year during the Olympics the real reason why there’s no Olympic women’s ski jump? That the IOC and the Ski Federation think that women jumpers’ girlie bits are going to get jostled right out of their bodies? Well, Vanessa at Feministing has a followup: the athletes have mobilized for action [...]
...read moreFootball? What Football?
I’m watching Puppy Bowl III. It’s time for the Kitty Halftime Show! Kitties and disco balls. What’s not to love?
...read moreCalling All Feminists and Yogis
If you’re in New York, come get a great stress-relieving work-out and help women at the same time. It’s a yoga class open to all levels, and it’s by donation — and anything you give will go to Women for Women International, a great group which assists women in war-torn nations. The details: Wednesday, 1/24 [...]
...read moreThe Best and the Worst
This article made me cry like a little baby. Read it, read it, read it.
...read moreTampons for the Sporty Set
The latest Playtex commercial is aimed at female athletes. Check it out: The Slate article about this ad points out that this is a step beyond fear-based tampon ads, which centered around the horrors of using a faulty tampon while wearing white pants or walking with the cutest boy in school. That’s true, and it’s [...]
...read moreBasketball Grannies
I read this story with interest: Playing basketball isn’t ladylike. That’s what Jewell Chapman’s high school principal told her in 1961 when he banned the girls basketball program. “We were very frustrated,” said Chapman, a forward for her high school team in Des Moines. Nearly 50 years later, Chapman is back on the court. She’s [...]
...read moreWhat The –?
Well, here’s one of those odd stories that are a little more complicated than one would expect at first blush: a man in Wappingers Falls, N.Y*. was kicked out of a Planet Fitness gym … for grunting. Albert Argibay, a bodybuilder and a state correction officer, was at a Planet Fitness gym with 500 pounds [...]
...read moreScoring by any other name
Pushing marriage as a way to encourage stability isn’t just for President Bush anymore. Apparently, it’s also for soccer coaches. “Bulgarian soccer club Litex Lovech wants its talented striker, Ivelin Popov, to curb his wild off-field living.” So what’s their solution? Order the 19-year-old player to get married by the end of the year. The [...]
...read moreFighting Is Not a Metaphor: Women’s Boxing
Way back when Lubu was a cub, I use’ta look forward to Wide World of Sports: The thrill of victory!……the agony of defeat!……. My dad would pour me a small glass of beer, saying “Here kid, this’ll put hair on yer chest!” while I’d giggle and get settled in to my spot on the couch [...]
...read moreNot content to beat up women for free, now he wants to do it for charity.
Raging Red sent along this tale that belongs in the annals of Really Bad Ideas: Mike Tyson wants to beat up women for charity. But the 40-year-old former heavyweight champ promised an entertaining show Friday night when he launches the “Mike Tyson’s World Tour” in Youngstown. At a news conference at an Italian restaurant, Tyson [...]
...read moreConcerned Women for College Sports
Tbogg, father of the lovely and talented soccer-playing Casey, has a post up about a new group with the innocuous-sounding name of the College Sports Council. Not surprisingly, if you scratch the surface, you find anti-Title IX groups looking to restore the non-revenue men’s sports that typically get cut when sports budgets get restricted. And, [...]
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