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Top Ten Reasons Why This Feminist is a Sports Fan: #2
Only two left in the Top Ten! The #2 reason why I'm a sports fan and a feminist (both! at once! at the same time!) is ...
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The End of 'It Takes a Team': Project That Challenged Homophobia in Sports is Cut
The sad news came down just a few weeks ago: It Takes a Team, the pioneering project of the Women's Sports Foundation dedicated to challenging homophobia in sports, has been canceled due to budget cuts. An... Read more »
Her Life Depends On It
Here's something I learned today: Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female physician in the U.S., gave a series of lectures in 1859 that emphasized the importance of physical
activity in the lives of girls-going so far as to define the first law of life as the law of exercise. Blackwell argued that a... Read more »
Where the Women Are
No surprise here: the internets can be a hostile space women. Women
who are sports fans and athletes find their fair share of, by turns,
erasure and hostility.
As Salon's Broadsheet... Read more »
Top Ten Reasons Why This Feminist is a Sports Fan: #3
I'm not a sports fan because of a guy I'm dating, or as an excuse to tailgate. I admit to exulting a bit when I can dismantle the preconception of who a sports fan is, or who a woman is, simply by talking about sports, which I love anyway. And I love the chance to have my own preconceptions... Read more »
Illinois Man Pleads Guilty to Stalking ESPN's Erin Andrews
In some ways, the news is anti-climactic: Michael David Barrett, an insurance executive of Illinois, pled guilty yesterday to the interstate stalking of ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews.More specifically, Barrett admitted to buying information about Andrews over the internet; traveling to... Read more »
Notre Dame Hires Pro-Choice Catholic as New Football Coach
Word came yesterday: The University of Notre Dame has hired Brian Kelly away from the University of Cincinnati to be its new... Read more »
Top Ten Reasons Why This Feminist is a Sports Fan: #4
The series continues. The #4 reason why this feminist is a sports fan is ...
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Pioneering Trans Sportswriter for <em>Los Angeles Times</em> Has Died
Such sad news today: veteran Los Angeles Times sportswriter Christine Daniels was found dead today in her home. Suicide is the suspected cause. She was 52 years old.
Daniels made national headlines when... Read more »
Top Ten Reasons Why This Feminist is a Sports Fan: #5
We've made it halfway, folks! The #5 reason why I love sports is ...
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