It’s finally here! This week the Summer Games begin. I– and my DVR– are ready. While some are calling them the Title IX Olympics, I prefer the XX(X) Olympics. Sure it’s the first time that women (269) outnumber men (261) on the US team (hence the “Title IX” moniker [and it helps that this is [...]
So much is happening in the world of sports with the lead-up to the Summer Olympics– and female athletes have been stealing the spotlight, especially in track (so much has been written on the 100m controversy, but I have to endorse this Sports Illustrated article by Tim Layden as the absolute best I have read [...]
I must confess that when I started reading this month’s Vogue I did not expect to read about a motocross racer. Maybe in Sports Illustrated– but Vogue? Just goes to show that female athletes are everywhere these days, showing excellence in various sports and reaching wider audiences than ever before. 21-year-old Ashley Fiolek is the [...]
It was 40 years ago this week that a woman first ran in the Boston Marathon. In 1972 Kathrine Switzer was an athletic pioneer, running among the men– even when a man tried to stop her. The picture is much different 40 years on thanks to Title IX and changing societal attitudes. Women are bona [...]
It’s a good time to be a female athlete. As the NCAA women’s basketball tournament winds down, we are left with the stories and legacies of serious athletic stars like Elena Delle Donne (with her interesting and brave back story) and Stanford’s Ogwumike sisters. Notre Dame’s Skylar Diggins has emerged as a star who transcends [...]
I love the Olympics. I love watching all the events. I love watching the “fluff” (background pieces/sob stories about the athletes). And I love seeing amazing athletes who participate in sports that don’t often get a lot of attention (like synchronized swimming and fencing, for example). And then there’s shooting. Over the weekend six shooters [...]
I know Amanda Scott as a fellow Gates Cambridge Scholar. But I can’t run like her! A very impressive person. CLICK HERE TO READ THIS ARTICLE ON BLOGHER SPORTS! 2012 is not only a leap year, it’s an Olympic year. That means that in the next few months thousands of hopefuls are gearing up for [...]
During this time of year, we know that heroes are among us and “ordinary” people do extraordinary things (like “layaway angels“). Sports figures tend to be inspiring heroes to many throughout the hero, whether that adoration is deserved or not. One female athlete who definitely does deserve to be called a hero– for her performance [...]
It seems that often when there’s a woman’s first in sports, there’s some sort of controversy shortly after. Case in point? Women’s boxing. Last month I wrote about the inclusion of women’s boxing as an Olympic sport for the first time (for another inspirational story about how this came to be, check out this story [...]
No, not Flo-Jo (aka the legendary Florence Griffith-Joyner—still considered the fastest woman ever). I’m talking about our monthly visitor, curse, and any other number of nicknames/euphemisms we women use to describe our menstrual cycles. As women gain access to more opportunities outside of the home, and outside of the bounds of the traditional “separate spheres,” [...]
