by admin | Mar 30, 2021 | Guest Blogs, SEW
To no one’s surprise, women are being treated with less respect than men. The N.C.A.A apologized on Friday, March 19, for the unequal workout facilities given to the women’s teams during the championship tournament. March is Women’s History Month,...
by admin | Mar 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sedona Prince’s impact on the NCAA women’s tournament will continue, even if she’s no longer playing in it. Prince and Oregon are headed home after being routed by second-seeded Louisville in the Sweet 16 on Sunday night. But the inequities between the men’s and...
by admin | Mar 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The NCAA has hired a civil rights law firm to conduct a gender-equity review for its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments less than a week after the organization was widely criticized for disparities between the two tournaments. Read More
by admin | Mar 25, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Amid mounting pressure from players, coaches and administrators over differences between the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, NCAA President Mark Emmert on Tuesday wrote that he would be calling for “an independent review” of the processes that led to the...
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
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 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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