Archive for the ‘Basketball’ Category
Friday, May 10th, 2013
By Ashleigh Sargent
Gail Marquis is a powerful woman in sports, business, and volunteer foundation work. She won a silver medal as a part of the 1976 U.S. Women’s Basketball Olympic Team and played basketball professionally in Europe, before taking her competitive drive and spirit to Wall Street where she worked ...
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Sunday, April 7th, 2013
By Ashleigh Sargent and Mariah Philips
What does it mean for a #5 seed team like Louisville to be in the Final Four? That favorite Baylor was out early?
Women’s college basketball fans seldom get to watch a regional seed lower than #3 make it to the Final Four. Sure, on the ...
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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
By Laura Pappano
It's March Madness and that means one thing: Time to vote with your pen, and rehearse your friendly trash-talking zingers.
The brackets are not just about the games, of course, but about the culture we create around the games. They are about the notice we give to female athletes, ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2012
By Ashleigh Sargent and Mariah Philips
Get ready, it’s game day!!!!! As you prepare mentally and physically, you want help getting into your zone.
Which songs pop up on the warm-up playlist? Chances are, messages of female empowerment and gender equality are not major themes in your favorite jams.
In fact, it might ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2012
By Ashleigh Sargent
UConn Women’s Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma believes the women’s hoops should be lowered seven inches from the standard 10-foot height (or 7.2 inches for 1972 when Title IX passed).
Why? He says lower rims would yield greater offensive production – more scoring -- and more fans for the women’s ...
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
By Ashleigh Sargent
One foot might not seem like a major difference – unless it’s on a basketball court. And unless it’s the three-point line you’re talking about.
Last year, the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel decided to move the traditional women’s three-point arc before the start of the season. In a (literal) ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
By Ashleigh Sargent and Mariah Philips
Notre Dame: The Fighting Irish took down perennial powerhouse UConn in overtime to advance to the National Championship for the second year in a row. Behind the leadership of Skylar Diggins, who finished the night with 19 points, Notre Dame forced the game into overtime ...
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
By Laura Pappano
Sports are political. This year’s March Madness tournament has made that point even more clearly than usual as President Barack Obama’s campaign announced the “Obama Bracket Challenge:” Out pick the President and your name appears on the campaign website.
While initial reports suggested a catch -- that the contest only applied to ...
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
By Laura Pappano
This is a year of Title IX anniversary celebrations – it became law in 1972 – but even as conferences are convened (I was part of a terrific panel at Wellesley College on Monday), let’s not get weepy.
It was not as if a switch flipped and everything changed.
There ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
By Ashleigh Sargent
In between soufflé and sauce instruction, there's time for athletics. Yes, they do more than cook at the Culinary Institute of America. Since 2004, they've played intercollegiate sports (though no scholarship athletes here). And, unlike most college basketball teams, the CIA Steels are co-ed, thanks to the addition ...
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