by admin | Nov 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Playing barefoot and wearing traditional Mayan dresses known as huipiles, the Little Devils softball team smashes hits, snags line drives and dashes around the bases in the sweltering heat of a Yucatán Peninsula jungle town. The team recently delivered a 22-2 thumping...
by admin | Jul 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
This game seemed as good as softball can get: The two best teams in the world, one the inventor of the game and the other the host of the Olympics, going pitch for pitch, nerve for nerve. Then it suddenly got better. Sometimes a sport produces a moment so...
by admin | Jul 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Kelsey Stewart has a knack for walk-off hits in Japan. Stewart hit a game-ending home run leading off the seventh inning, and the United States rallied late to beat Japan 2-1 on Monday and win the Olympic softball group stage — and with it the right to bat last...
by admin | Jul 23, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When softball helped kick off the Olympics on Wednesday in Tokyo, it was a triumphant return, if only a temporary one. After a 13-year absence, the sport is making its first appearance at the Summer Games since Beijing in 2008. Softball and baseball...
by admin | Jul 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Team USA softball pitchers Cat Osterman and Monica Abbott stood on the podium, medals around their necks and flowers in their hands. Minutes earlier, “We Are The Champions” played on the loudspeaker and thundersticks clapped in the stands. Seconds before...
by admin | Jul 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Baseball has long been considered America’s pastime, though it has also been dominated by male players from the beginning. Slowly, Major League Baseball has opened its doors to women — while not on the field itself, in positions such as coaches,...
by admin | Jul 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Natasha Cloud finds the video, lowers the volume, and hands you her phone. It’s a racist screed on Snapchat, yapped in a school cafeteria by a teenage girl who is white. It’s vile, pure filth—made even more disturbing because the girl is sitting next to a Black...
by admin | Jun 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The NCAA said Wednesday that its softball committee is “soliciting feedback” on the recent criticism and complaints about the Women’s College World Series — which marked just the latest women’s championship to face inequity issues. Oklahoma beat Florida State last...
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 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Olivia Taylor made one of the best plays anybody has seen on any level of sport in recent memory, and you know it because you couldn’t miss it this past weekend. Taylor, a senior center fielder for Bear River High School in Utah, made a full-extension leap over...
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