by admin | Mar 23, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Last week, a U.S. Senate Committee held its first hearing on the Equality Act, a bill that would provide LGBTQ+ Americans with broad discrimination protections. Throughout the hearing Republican senators used their time to broadcast a supposed deep support...
by admin | Mar 23, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Almost nobody likes the NCAA. Plenty of people like college sports, in the same way plenty of people like the NFL or the NBA. But very few like “the NCAA,” the governing body that oversees America’s college athletic contests. For many, that’s because when the NCAA...
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Women were the top three prize money earners on Alpine skiing’s World Cup circuit this season, the International Ski Federation said Monday. Lara Gut-Behrami was the highest prize earner with a total of 485,000 Swiss francs ($523,000) before taxes, including six...
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has built its trademarked “March Madness” phrase into one of the most powerful brands in sports. It’s plastered on the courts, arenas and broadcasts for the lucrative NCAA men’s basketball tournament—and absent from the...
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sky Sports has reached a “multimillion” three-year agreement with the Football Association to secure the rights to broadcast English Women’s Super League matches starting next season in what has been proclaimed a “landmark rights deal” for women’s sports. Read...
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Late, late night, during the college basketball seasons of the late 1980s, I’d crash in front of the TV, turn on ESPN and hope to be treated to a game featuring the most exciting team in the country. It was Long Beach State. The women’s team, not the men’s. Read...
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
The American star says she believes that the current team’s work pavers the way for future teams to benefit financially. Read More
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
Jose Altuve was the little guy and Aaron Judge was the big guy. Max Scherzer was the guy with different-colored eyes and Mike Yastrzemski was the guy with the famous grandfather. None of them were pioneers, but at first they stood out for something beyond their...
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
I’m tired. Not from today or from yesterday but from 40 years of it. Forty years tired of writing the same damn story about the same NCAA shortchangers in suits who would begrudge women’s athletes so much as an equal amount of air in a tire if they thought it might...
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Facing a swell of outrage and accusations that it prized men’s basketball players more than the athletes competing in the women’s tournament next week, the N.C.A.A. apologized on Friday for vast disparities in workout facilities at its marquee championship events....
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