Archive for the ‘The Sports’ Category
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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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
By Rachel Tompkins
Signs of Spring have appeared atop the Allegheny Front between the two Virginias. Here in Pocahontas County in West (By God) Virginia that includes shoots of green, the sound of robins --- and cheering from the gym at Pocahontas County High School as the Lady Warriors begin their ...
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
By Megan Wood and Laura Pappano
Justine Siegal, founder of BaseBall for All, made news this week when she became the first woman to throw batting practice to a major league baseball team at spring training. She threw for the Cleveland Indians on Monday and the Oakland A's on Wednesday. Siegal, ...
Posted in Baseball, GenNext: Sport Girls, Money, Power & Politics, The Coaches | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
By Laura Pappano
More people will watch Super Bowl XLV this Sunday than tuned in for the President’s State of the Union address last week.
It’s not even close (42.8 million watched President Barack Obama vs. an expected 110 million). That’s no dis to Obama because George W. Bush was out-viewed, too.
The ...
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