by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Never again let someone from the NCAA call women’s basketball or any other sport a “cost.” Connecticut’s Paige Bueckers is not a cost. She is the entire damn point. The real cost, the real burden in this iniquitous, contemptible system is the legion of skimmers and...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Even in the cavernous Alamodome and in front of a national TV audience, Adia Barnes saw only the faces in the huddle. Her Arizona Wildcats had slayed a giant, and she had one more message for those doubters who had underestimated her team. Read More
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Don’t you feel silly now, NCAA. March Madness began with the uproar over the NCAA’s blatant disregard of women’s basketball, Mark Emmert and his cronies apparently believing it to be an extracurricular activity rather than an actual sport. It is finishing with the...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
For the second time in three years, Augusta National Golf Club majestically elevated the profile of women’s amateur golf Saturday, doing its best to show a stodgy and often misogynistic sport what its future looks like, if it truly cares to notice. Read More
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Fifty years ago, Carole Oglesby helped establish a governing body for women in college athletics at a time when the National Collegiate Athletics Association only oversaw men’s sports. When she saw images earlier this month of the inferior training facilities provided...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
On Transgender Day of Visibility, the National Women’s Soccer League announced their new policy on transgender and nonbinary athletes – a bit of a misnomer, given the policy does not mention nonbinary athletes in the body of its text. They joined a small but...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Arizona Wildcats women’s basketball coach Adia Barnes said Saturday that she has nothing to apologize for after she used a middle finger and an expletive in a postgame huddle with her team in the joyous moments following a 69-59 win over UConn in the Final Four....
by admin | Apr 4, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to coaches Dawn Staley of South Carolina and Adia Barnes of the team from Arizona who will make history as the first two Black women to head coaches in the same Final Four. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Just after Sabrina Ionescu turned pro as one of the most decorated college athletes in NCAA history a year ago, the bidding war was off to the races. Nike, Under Armour and Puma all wanted to sign the former Oregon Ducks star, who was the all-time leader in...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Here’s a weird question. Is it … fitting that Marta has never won the World Cup or Olympics, the two biggest women’s soccer trophies on offer? It’s not that she isn’t the greatest female player of all time without those honors, nor does it minimize her...
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