by admin | Mar 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
UConn’s Paige Bueckers and Iowa’s Caitlin Clark were once teammates playing for their country. On Saturday (1 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN App) in the 2021 NCAA women’s basketball tournament, their teams will face off with the country watching. Bueckers’...
by admin | Mar 26, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
“Our analysis shows men’s sports are the appetizer, the main course and the dessert, and if there’s any mention of women’s sports it comes across as begrudging ‘eat your vegetables’ without the kind of bells and whistles and excitement with which they describe men’s...
by admin | Mar 24, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Trevor Noah on Monday took the NCAA to task for its gender bias during March Madness. (Watch the clip below.) After addressing the men’s basketball tournament’s far more elaborate weight room and other disparities, the “Daily Show” host cracked wise on another...
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
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
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 21, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to the sports power couple, Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe. The WNBA legend and soccer super star both worked as greeters this week at a mass vaccination site in Seattle. There presence was an extra gift for all who attended. ? This week we...
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