sports

Women’s professional sports grapple with eroding rights

USA TODAY Sports spoke to more than 30 current and retired professional female athletes to gauge how they’re weighing changes…

3 years ago

Opinion: Women athletes’ lives are now going to be vastly more complicated

Women athletes, more so than almost anyone else, are defined by bodily autonomy and choice, writes Amy Bass. So it's…

3 years ago

Title IX’s greatest achievement wasn’t equality. It was possibility.

It’s the tremendous sense of movement created by Title IX over the past 50 years that matters.

3 years ago

50 Years of Title IX: How One Law Changed Women’s Sports Forever

In 1972, no one dreamed a dry, 37-word clause tucked inside a new education legislation would reshape women’s sports forever.…

3 years ago

How Women’s Sports Media, Athletes Try to Engage More Fans

When athletes don’t receive serious coverage, potential fans don’t get a chance to respect, and religiously follow, their game.

3 years ago

Sports legacies Title IX created

Seven families discuss the multigenerational, maternal lineages they've built across the 50 years since the passage of Title IX.

3 years ago

She Spent Her Life Fighting for Equity for Women in Sports

Christine Grant, the Title IX pioneer who died in December, often lamented the historically poor treatment of female athletes, asking…

4 years ago

The Smaller, Everyday Deals for College Athletes Under New Rules

Although players with six-figure deals have attracted most of the public attention, thousands of athletes are pulling in just enough…

4 years ago

Girl on Fire: 10-Year-Old Pepper Persley Is Setting the World Ablaze

Don't let her age fool you. The basketball player and journalist has already made her mark in the sports world…

4 years ago