Archive for the ‘The Sports’ Category
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
By Susan McGee Bailey
The U.S. Supreme Court last week remained silent in the case of a Texas cheerleader, but the message was alarmingly loud: It may be 2011, but high school girls don’t have the same rights as high school guys.
The Court declined to hear an appeal from a Texas ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
By Katie Culver
I was so excited about my son’s first soccer season, that I volunteered my husband and I to share responsibilities as the team’s coaches. The complicating matter: I was 40 weeks pregnant.
My third child was born two weeks later, which meant that – along with rainouts – much ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
Last July when Federal District Court Judge Stefan Underhill found Quinnipiac University violated Title IX, in part, because it counted cheerleading as a varsity sport, most of the debate was about – you guessed it: Is cheerleading a sport?
The decision, however, also discussed the school’s “roster management” practices ...
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Friday, April 22nd, 2011
By Laura Pappano
Whether or not the IAAF decides to recognize as a new world record Geoffrey Mutai’s win in the Boston Marathon, crossing in 2:03:02 – 57 seconds faster than Haile Gebreselassie’s 2008 record of 2:03:59 – is, in some ways, immaterial.
He was fast. He was so thrillingly fast (and ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
By Ashleigh Sargent
What a week of hoops! As a college player and fan, my observations about the tournament mixed strong emotions (one of the stars of women’s basketball ends her college career with a 72-63 loss) with excitement for the way the final game unfolded. It is meaningful to see ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
When Stanford went down 63-62 last night to Texas A & M, it took several minutes to sink in. And when TV cameras showed the UConn Huskies in the stands, well, you felt that they had been forewarned: Watch out, things can happen.
It didn’t matter. Notre Dame didn’t ...
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Sunday, March 27th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
If coverage of the men’s side of March Madness seems to be playing at every hour on every available screen, it’s not your imagination.
Not only did the number of men’s teams in the tournament increase from 64 to 68, but the NCAA TV deal with CBS and Turner ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
It's March Madness for a reason. Yes, UConn is dominant, but with injuries and defections, and rising teams from Baylor, Stanford, and Tennessee, who knows? This is college, after all.
Too much March Madness talk presumes that it's all about the men's bracket. But if the waiter who just ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
Just in time to save us from seasonal affective disorder, writer and blogger Mina Samuels has published Run Like a Girl, a relentlessly optimistic book (doesn’t mean there aren’t trials) about the transformative power of sports.
Yes, sports can make you happy. (And more successful. too!)
In her part-memoir, part-girlfriend/life ...
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Friday, March 4th, 2011
By Ashleigh Sargent
After I recently suffered a severe ankle sprain that sidelined me from basketball for several weeks, I saw firsthand that injuries are not just physically damaging but mentally challenging too! I spoke with Kate McLaren, PhD, a sports psychologist at The Education Alliance, about what to do when ...
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