Thursday, May 28th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
Justine Siegal is billed by her team, The Brockton Rox, as the first woman to coach men’s professional baseball (they play in the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball or Can-Am League). She is also founder of BaseBall for All, which supports female players and provides baseball instruction around ...
Posted in Baseball, The Coaches, The Q&A | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
Whether or not a judge rules that Quinnipiac University has violated Title IX by cutting its Women’s Volleyball team is less newsworthy than what we learned in court today.
That is, coaches manipulated rosters to meet Title IX requirements with men’s teams dropping players (and women’s teams padding rosters ...
Posted in Money, Power & Politics | 3 Comments »
Monday, May 11th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
The 2009 recreational co-ed softball season is well underway – and so are sexist practices. Why do organizers assume that female players are – by dint of being female – inferior players?
Planet Social Sports -- which organizes recreational (emphasis on recreation) sports primarily in California and Nevada -- ...
Posted in Softball | No Comments »
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
School districts are sweating. Budgets are tight and they are cutting in the same old places, including middle and high school sports. (A recent American Association of School Administrators survey shows the proportion of school districts cutting extracurricular activities, including sports, will triple from 10 to 28 percent ...
Posted in Football, Money, Power & Politics | No Comments »
Monday, April 27th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
Everybody knows that President Obama is a big college hoops fan. But most of his public affection has focused on the men's side (click here to see a photo of him with his March Madness picks). Today, however, he had the chance to enumerate the dominance of the ...
Posted in Basketball | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 24th, 2009
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By Laura Pappano
Yes, she is on the Men’s Tennis Team. And so is she and she and she.
Anyone who noodles around the Wheelock College Men’s Tennis homepage – or goes to see them play a match – notices the obvious: There are ...
Posted in The Athletes | No Comments »
Monday, April 20th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
The lead women's pack at mile 18 of The Boston Marathon 2009
One of the most frustrating things about watching the Boston Marathon is that it’s hard to tell how fast the runners are. I’m not talking TV coverage or the delay in the Boston Athletic Association website in ...
Posted in Running, The Athletes | 1 Comment »
Sunday, April 5th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
THE QUALITY ISSUE: The Clippers could beat UNC, so..?
A reader writes: “…there is also a big gap between the quality of play for men’s and women’s college b-ball…and thus the price disparity.”
Absolutely, men’s college basketball is a fast-paced exciting game and male players on average may be bigger ...
Posted in Basketball, Money, Power & Politics, The Data | 6 Comments »
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Click here to read Laura Pappano's op-ed in today's Christian Science Monitor on why the price gap between men's and women's division 1 college basketball tickets is a travesty -- and perpetuates economic disparities on and off the court.
Posted in Basketball, Money, Power & Politics, The Data | 17 Comments »
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
In our insta-age, everything you hear about is old the second you’re in on it. But one big secret isn’t out: Girls are allowed to play baseball. (Well, kind of).
It’s 35 years since President Gerald Ford signed legislation opening Little League to girls, but it remains a shocker ...
Posted in Baseball, GenNext: Sport Girls, Money, Power & Politics | 14 Comments »
