Friday, September 11th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
Last spring, an op-ed published in the Christian Science Monitor -- "The Price Gap Between Men and Women's Basketball Tickets is Madness" -- drew a slew of responses and comments, including some that were awfully hostile about the prospect of women's play being 1) worthwhile watching and 2) ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
That blur you see is a 45-year-old woman breaking a record. (OK, snapping with an iPhone enhances the effect in this case).
That's right. Yesterday at the Stratton Faxon New Haven Road Race -- which was also the Men's and Women's 20K National Championships -- Colleen DeReuck set a ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
Maybe I’m just a sucker for team sports, but I love the Solheim Cup. Where else do can you catch face paint, hard-slapping high fives, and I-got-your-back hugs – in golf?
In a sport that – this year, particularly on the women’s side – has been in disarray, ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
The Playbook is an ocassional series on University of Rhode Island Women's Basketball team and head coach Cathy Inglese as she works to turn around a losing program.
THE PLAYBOOK
By Laura Pappano
Go ahead and debate whether or not it’s a good thing, but women’s college basketball is changing: Young women don't ...
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
The Playbook
An occasional series on University of Rhode Island Women’s Basketball Coach Cathy Inglese as she tries to turn around a program that finished last year 10-21. By Laura Pappano
The first game of the upcoming season – against Fairfield University (18-13 last year) – is months away, but Coach Cathy ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
The visual is stunning.
Click here to see the Little League Softball World Series championship TV schedule. You’ll find ESPN2 (the channel broadcasting women’s college hoops unless there is a men’s game that can’t fit the ESPN or network schedule) is showing two semi-final games on Tues., Aug. 18 ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
Because we can all benefit from hearing serious young female athlete voices, we connected with three talented basketball players who just finished nine days at the summer academy run by the non-profit SportsChallenge Leadership & Education Alliance in Washington, D.C. Director Molly Hellerman (a former college athlete and pro soccer ...
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
Let’s get over the woe-is-us tone that shrouds women’s professional soccer. Yesterday’s NY Times story captured the uncertainty league bigwigs feel around the (admittedly) very challenging task of filling soccer stadiums, and getting enough sponsor and ad dollars to give WPS staying power – and in a recession.
What’s ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
Just two days before filly Rachel Alexandra made a splash by beating the boys at the Preakness Stakes, another female athlete tore up the racetrack – from in the saddle.
On May 14, 24-year-old Jenna Joubert became one of the few jockeys (ever) to ride three different horses to ...
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
Please – let’s not blame our bodies.
The nomination to the Supreme Court of Justice Sonia Sotomayor has, of course, spurred debate about how women – by dint of their sex -- judge, act, and rule. (We hear females lawyers prefer to mediate rather than litigate, for example, suggesting ...
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