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 | 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....
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
UCLA senior Pauline Tratz has been named the Pac-12 Gymnastics Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the third Bruin gymnast to win this award in the last four years. The award, which is presented in each of the 24 sports the Conference sponsors, was established to honor...
by admin | Mar 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Michelle Akers, nowadays, is one of many Americans who looks up to Megan Rapinoe. To her soccer stardom, yes, but moreso to her voice. To her attitude, and her activism, and her leadership. And to the entire U.S. women’s national team, really. Occasionally, sitting at...
by admin | Mar 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Professional Fighters League (PFL), the fastest growing and most innovative sports league in the world, today announced the signing of Cynthia Vanessa Vescan, one of the most talented female freestyle wrestlers in the world. Read More
by admin | Mar 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Portland Thorns and US women’s national team player Lindsey Horan has gone into significantly more detail about the time she spent at Paris Saint-Germain dealing with a body-shaming, unhealthy, sexist culture, partially under the direction of then-head coach Farid...
by admin | Mar 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The NCAA has come under fire over the lack of amenities, notably the workout equipment, at the women’s basketball tournament compared with the men’s event this year.Both tournaments get underway this week, with the women’s tournament taking place...
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