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How to watch women’s Olympic ice hockey with your three-year-old daughter (and why it matters)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Team USA faces off this afternoon against Finland in the final day of preliminary round play. Medals rounds ahead! By Emilie Liebhoff I recently took my three-year-old daughter ice-skating for the first time.  I skated a few laps, did some quick crossovers, and pivoted back and forth.  She was amazed.  (I'm sure ...

Coed Softball Rules: Institutionalized Sexism

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 -- ...

LAX: Women are stealing from the men (and that might be good)

Monday, April 13th, 2009

By Lauren Taylor After many years of lugging around a lacrosse stick to various U.S. locales and being met with conspicuous stares and questions of “What is that?” I was thrilled to see women’s (and men’s) lacrosse being nationally televised this past weekend. As I watched Syracuse and Notre Dame face off, ...