Friday, June 21st, 2013
By Ashleigh Sargent
Of course we’re all talking about Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. There’s the public conversation about the gender gap in leadership in the U.S. (and controversy about some messages in Lean In) but as a recent college graduate and a female ...
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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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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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Thursday, November 24th, 2011
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By Laura Pappano
Thanksgiving football, of course, involves Detroit. And while the NFL will get plenty of attention today, there has been another Detroit football story out there this season. Word that Monique Howard, 6-foot senior basketball player and track talent, ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
By Laura Pappano
It may look like an excuse for college students to gather in a festival atmosphere. And on the surface, Quidditch, the Harry-Potter-inspired sport in which players ride on brooms (ok, run with them between their legs), is a reach.
But, then, basketball probably looked odd to those who first ...
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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
By Wendy Farnen Price
Girls are playing basketball with a level of passion and skill - and in numbers -- we couldn't have imagined a few decades ago (and just think how many more will be inspired to play by UConn's run on UCLA's 1970s-era win streak!).
But a troubling fact remains: ...
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
By Laura Pappano
The countdown started long ago.
Most fans know that if the UConn Women’s Basketball team continues its unbeaten run that on Dec. 21 the team will surpass the 88-game winning streak set by John Wooden’s UCLA teams of the early 1970s.
As the date nears, the question becomes pointed: Who ...
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Thursday, October 28th, 2010
By Laura Pappano
It's nearly election day, an apt time to recognize that -- yes -- sports are political. Not blue state-red state stuff, but equity, status, economic power.
At the New York Athletic Club yesterday, the Wellesley Centers for Women lunch/discussion fed a conversation that energized a room of more than ...
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
By Laura Pappano
Never mind. That was message in Tuesday’s “Dear Colleague” letter issued by the federal Office for Civil Rights.
Never mind about that 2005 policy saying it was OK for colleges to meet a Title IX compliance prong gauging female interest in sports by sending out internet spam – er, ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
By Laura Pappano
This year we expect Connecticut to march all the way to San Antonio -- and then some. But that doesn't mean there isn't water cooler-worthy debate to be had around match-ups all over the bracket (not to mentioned good basketball to be watched). Anyone remember last year when ...
Posted in Basketball, Money, Power & Politics | Comments Off on Call to political action: Fill out your (women’s) NCAA brackets!!!
