by admin | Mar 11, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
In a matter of days, Kansas lost its head football coach in Les Miles and the man who hired him, athletic director Jeff Long. One reporter saw it coming in 2018. Read More
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A few years after competing in synchronized swimming at the 2012 London Olympics, Szofi Kiss of Hungary began working with a coach from Russia, whom she would identify only by her first name as Natalia. The coach, Kiss said, separated some members of her training...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Famer and former Olympian John Zimmerman was suspended from the sport after allegations that he covered up the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old female skater that he coached, according to USA Today’s Christine Brennan. Zimmerman was...
by admin | Mar 7, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Kansas athletic director Jeff Long announced on Friday that he has placed Les Miles on administrative leave following consecutive days of reports concerning his behavior towards women students while at LSU. The University of Kansas will also conduct its own...
by admin | Mar 5, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
While preparing for the biggest fight of her life, UFC title contender Megan Anderson earlier this year found herself the center of attention she didn’t ask for, the focus of crude remarks by a male fighter. Casey Kenney, responding to a question on fellow UFC...
by admin | Mar 5, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Cornwell, a former anchor and reporter for the NBC-owned Golf Channel, wanted to talk, desperately, about her seven years working there. In 2020, she filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging discrimination and retaliation before...
by admin | Mar 4, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
At the height of his fame as Louisiana State University’s head football coach, Les Miles was accused of texting female students, taking them to his condo alone, making them feel uncomfortable and, on at least one occasion, kissing a student and suggesting they go to a...
by admin | Mar 3, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
ABC-7 sportscaster Mark Giangreco, a Chicago TV fixture for nearly 40 years, has been off the air since joking on a January newscast that anchor Cheryl Burton could play a “ditzy, combative interior decorator” on a reality TV series. Whether Giangreco, 68, will return...
by admin | Mar 3, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Last month the Washington Football Team settled claims brought by members of the all-female cheerleading squad, who alleged among other things that high-level team executives passed around a lewd video of the cheerleaders. Now the team is going in a...
by admin | Mar 2, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
While legislators on the House floor were pontificating about the demise of women’s sports, another story was unfolding. Yesterday, John Geddert, head coach of the 2012 gold-medal women’s Olympic gymnastics team, committed suicide in Michigan. He had just been charged...
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