by admin | Feb 28, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW
The irreconcilable disconnect between the Cowboys paying $2.4 million to settle voyeurism allegations and concluding that no wrongdoing occurred compels a much closer look at the situation. Content to close the books on the matter (and to accept the team’s...
by admin | Feb 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Serena Williams, Billie Jean King and Alex Morgan were among the sportswomen to star during the 56th edition of the Super Bowl. The Los Angeles Rams overturned a 20-16 deficit to defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20, triumphing at the SoFi Stadium in front of a home...
by admin | Feb 11, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Maria Taylor has had a wild couple of years. “You can’t make up the story lines that end up leading to my very first Super Bowl,” she says now, in her first full interview since the controversy that led her to leave her longtime perch at ESPN for NBC Sports. The...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
“People would say to me, ‘You really want to leave the N.F.L.?’ ‘Yes,’ I would answer, ‘with running shoes on.’” RAMONA WASHINGTON, a former production coordinator at NFL Network who is Black. She said she quit in disgust in 2018 after her report of bias among...
by admin | Feb 3, 2022 | #MeToo, Guest Blogs, SEW
The Washington Football team has officially changed their name to the Commanders. This may be one step towards combating racism in the league, but this doesn’t outweigh the team’s history of inappropriate conduct and sexual harassment against women. It’s been more...
by admin | Jan 24, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The sheer brilliance and dominance of some female footballers over the decades has clearly not gone unnoticed.They have continued to push the limit and break the stereotype that football is a men’s sport which has helped to empower women and young girls across...
by admin | Jan 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The teenage girls in the red jerseys and black hijabs huddle close on the chilly pitch in this soccer-crazy city and chant their team’s name. “We are Ayenda!” they shout out, using the word for future in Dari, the Afghan dialect of Persian. “We...
by admin | Dec 24, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Growing up in Maryland, I was raised as a fan of the team now called the Washington Football Team, and my parents have pictures of me as a baby in a burgundy-and-gold onesie. We watched games at family gatherings, and I know what it’s like to have that one uncle root...
by admin | Dec 19, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to the National Women’s Soccer League Players Association (NWSLPA) who is launching a new emergency fund to support soccer players “who cannot afford basic living expenses or the additional costs that become barriers to accessing...
by admin | Dec 15, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
At this point, the bigger problem for the NFL is not the stinking algae bloom that is Daniel Snyder but rather the strong whiff of its own toxic cleansers. Commissioner Roger Goodell, you see, knows the Washington Football Team owner was accused of sexual misconduct...
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