by admin | Mar 4, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
Kim Ng took her seat on the chartered jet. As assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, she was joining the team on a road trip in 2008. Soon the Dodgers players started filing onto the plane, and a flight attendant began taking drink orders from...
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 | Representation, SEW
Despite the 2021 National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) season ending early because of a COVID-19 outbreak, broadcasters like Alexis Pearson are thrilled at the growth the league saw in just ten days, thanks in part to the games being shown on the streaming platform...
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 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Sam Rapoport envisioned conducting virtually the NFL’s fifth annual Women’s Career in Football Forum, she shuddered. How could the networking, hands-on communications and camaraderie the event has encompassed occur during the COVID-19 pandemic? Read...
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...
by admin | Mar 2, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
When Cleveland Indians team president Chris Antonetti addressed the media on Feb. 4, he opened his virtual news conference by telling reporters in a somber tone that he was “disturbed, distraught and saddened” by the allegations against former Indians pitching coach...
by admin | Mar 1, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
The Liberty’s Betnijah Laney and Erica Wheeler of the Los Angeles Sparks are coming into their own after winding paths with a key intersection: Stringer’s coaching at Rutgers. Read More
by admin | Mar 1, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
For a moment, it looked as if the most powerful people in Japan were three 20-something women. In a country where the young are taught to keep quiet and defer to their elders, the trio of women decided to speak out after the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing...
by admin | Mar 1, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
With Black History Month in our rearview mirrors, and as we enter a month dedicated to celebrating the history of women, it has become quite apparent that the months of February and March are being merged by the actions of Black women like Renee Montgomery, Stacey...
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