by admin | Oct 4, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
National Women’s Soccer League commissioner Lisa Baird resigned Friday in the wake of a sexual misconduct scandal involving a high-profile coach and growing criticism of the league’s handling of it and other cases of alleged abuse. The league confirmed that it had...
by admin | Oct 4, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Alex Morgan brought the receipts. NWSL, commissioner Lisa Baird and other team executives can be sympathetic. Their sentiments can even be genuine. But what’s done can’t be erased by a crafted statement. Especially when those statements are effectively rendered...
by admin | Oct 3, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to the WNBA and the efforts they’ve made to get and educate about the covid vaccine. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Coach Paul Riley, who has been accused of sexual coercion spanning multiple...
by admin | Oct 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
YouGov has released an in-depth paper on the perception of women’s sport around the world. It draws on research from 13 countries, including Australia, India, the US, the UK, Germany, Japan and France. Those taking part were asked a series of questions on the...
by admin | Sep 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Andrea Yoch was at the home of Chad Greenway, the former Minnesota Viking who spent 11 years in the NFL, and she had a project she wanted to tell him about. Greenway, a good friend and regular collaborator in her marketing work, heard it and immediately called his...
by admin | Sep 30, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
The National Women’s Soccer League Players Association has called for an investigation into allegations spanning over a decade of sexual coercion and inappropriate comments about players’ weight and sexual orientation against North Carolina Courage coach...
by admin | Sep 30, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
On a July night in 2014, in the waning minutes of a NWSL regular season match between Portland Thorns FC and the Chicago Red Stars, Sinead Farrelly collapsed on the field at the Benedictine University Sports Complex. She had stepped up to defend an opposing player...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
VV Foarut midfielder Ellen Fokkema has a typical matchday routine: ride her bicycle through the beautiful Friesland fields to the Schatzenburg sports complex in the small village of Menaam, in the north of the Netherlands (about 90 minutes north of Amsterdam), where...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
“Go gays. You can’t win a championship without gays on your team!” That was Megan Rapinoe’s triumphant logline to the press at the World Cup in 2019, right after she dropped two goals on France in the quarterfinal and hit her now-signature magisterial pose. But that...
by admin | Sep 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Tobin Heath made her Arsenal debut with a late cameo off the bench as the Gunners ran riot against Manchester City to further bolster their place atop the Women’s Super League. A Kim Little double proved the centrepiece of a 5-0 victory at Meadow Park, as Jonas...
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