by admin | Jul 18, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Melanie Newman, Sarah Langs, Alanna Rizzo, and Heidi Watney, who will become the first all female team to call a Major League Baseball broadcast. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the FBI who botched...
by admin | Jul 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
A Major League Baseball game will be called entirely by women next week for the first time ever on a broadcast, the New York Times reports. Driving the news: Five women will serve as the on-air crew for the Baltimore Orioles game against the Tampa Bay Rays from...
by admin | Jun 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Gwen Goldman exchanged fist bumps with the New York Yankees she had been admiring for decades from afar, walked onto the field and waved to the crowd. She got to be a Yankees’ bat girl on Monday night at age 70 — a full 60 years after she was turned down because of...
by admin | Jun 7, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
It is an eight-team softball tournament held every year in Oklahoma City, and the games frequently sell out. The television audience on ESPN is substantial, too. In the most recent previous tournament, 1.8 million people watched the final game, substantially more than...
by admin | May 30, 2021 | Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Simon Biles, who executed a Yurchenko double pike the US Classic. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Mickey Callaway, who has been fired by the LA Angels for harassing a number of female media...
by admin | May 28, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
The worst kind of coward is the one who preys on the vulnerable, those who in many ways are powerless to fight back or far less likely to be believed in a he said-she said situation. The kind of coward Mickey Callaway is. Until Wednesday, Callaway was the Los Angeles...
by admin | May 23, 2021 | Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to the Seattle Storm, who made sure to represent social justice on their 2020 championship rings. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the British Baseball Federation who posted sexist tweets on their social...
by admin | Apr 22, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
WHEN KIM NG was hired by the Miami Marlins as their general manager this past MLB offseason, she received ringing endorsements from Michelle Obama, Sharon Robinson and Billie Jean King. In January, she was invited by President Joe Biden to participate...
by admin | Apr 21, 2021 | Guest Blogs, SEW
The road paved for women to participate and excel in athletics has been a long one, with many twists and turns. In fact, the road women have taken to even get close to equal opportunity has passed mountains that had to be moved, along...
by admin | Apr 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Williams initially viewed sports as a distraction from religious study. But as secular pursuits in the industrializing world started drawing young men’s interest away from Christian teachings, Williams’s YMCA began using sports to keep young men from going astray — in...
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