by admin | Mar 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sedona Prince’s impact on the NCAA women’s tournament will continue, even if she’s no longer playing in it. Prince and Oregon are headed home after being routed by second-seeded Louisville in the Sweet 16 on Sunday night. But the inequities between the men’s and...
by admin | Mar 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
All the women’s sports did well this weekend, and the lone men’s team competing fell apart in Stillwater. What a weekend. And yes, apologies, we’re heavy on links from K-State Sports today.
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It’s one of the guiding principles of journalism, the reporter should never become the story. Every now and then though, you find a reporter’s story too good not to tell. In 2018, Dave Kindred received the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
In an opinion piece published by The Washington Post on Sunday (28 March), Rapinoe, who is a lesbian, described how being able to play sports as a child “shaped my life’s path”. She said it taught her “so much more than is seen on the field and brought me so much...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
UConn freshman guard Paige Bueckers and South Carolina sophomore forward Aliyah Boston, who will attempt to lead their No. 1-seeded teams into the Elite Eight this weekend, were among college basketball players named finalists Friday for the 2021 John R. Wooden Award....
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It’s been eight years since Amari Avery made her first “splash” — her word — in golf. A 2013 Netflix documentary on elite grade school golfers introduced an 8-year-old Avery cruising her Riverside, Calif., street on her bike, pink handlebar streamers blowing in the...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Starr Andrews remembers the stares she received in locker rooms at her earliest figure skating competitions. She remembers the requests to touch her coiled, textured hair. “The first thing that popped into my mind is, ‘It’s because I’m Black,’” Andrews, 19, said in a...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
As a loaded Saturday Sweet 16 slate tipped off with a heavyweight women’s matchup between UConn and Iowa, Draymond Green weighed in on the equal opportunity conversation that’s dominated March. The Golden State Warriors forward posted a lengthy...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
A year ago this month, the countdown clock to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was halted and then reset because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, once again, we’re just about four months out from an Olympic Games that, should they go off as planned in late July, will...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
United States men’s coach Jason Kreis admitted his squad is “devastated” not to be going to the Olympics after losing 2-1 to Honduras in CONCACAF qualifying in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sunday. Los Catrachos punched their...
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