by admin | Sep 1, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A USA Gymnastics reorganization plan includes up to $425 million for survivors who say they were sexually abused by former team doctor and convicted sex offender Larry Nassar. The dollar amount is contained in court documents filed with an Indiana bankruptcy court...
by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A former Major League Baseball player has been accused of sexually assaulting his daughter, ESPN reported on Saturday. Juan Encarnación, a two-time World Series champion (2003 Marlins, 2006 St. Louis Cardinals), has been taken into custody, the attorney...
by admin | Aug 25, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
There were a lot of seamy, disputable side questions in Trevor Bauer’s court hearing, such as whether that phrase his lawyers used, “wholly consensual,” comes with any limits as to what you’re allowed to do to somebody. But you don’t need to answer that charming legal...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A judge has ordered the U.S. government to seize money from the prison trust account of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who owes approximately $58,000 to the victims of his crimes according to a report by the Associated Press. Nassar, whose crimes included...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Nike confirmed Tuesday that it had renamed the Alberto Salazar Building on its Beaverton, Ore., campus, whose namesake was the famed distance running coach who has been barred from the sport for sexual and emotional misconduct. The change is a stunning and perhaps...
by admin | Aug 16, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, one of the most polarizing players in his sport, is expected in court Monday for a civil hearing with wide-ranging implications for both the sexual assault allegations against him and, ultimately, his future in baseball. After...
by admin | Aug 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
The uneven bars began, like all of women’s gymnastics, as a balance event, meant to showcase some flexibility and a lot of ladylike panache. In the subsequent century, however, it grew closer to its distant male cousin, the high bar, evolving into a poetry of nonstop...
by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation
A new women’s football team in west London’s “Little India” hopes to encourage diversity in football. It follows UK government research in 2020 that suggested Asian women were the least physically active group. The players of Southall Athletic...
by admin | Aug 6, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
If you were to time travel to Paris to the Olympic Games in 1900, when women were first allowed to compete, you would probably be shocked by what they wore. Instead of the skimpier attire we’re used to seeing on women athletes, like the bikini bottoms Olympic...
by admin | Aug 2, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
While USA Gymnastics has made improvements since the Larry Nassar scandal, athletes say there’s still a lack of transparency and honesty. Read More
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