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Male Coach Claims His Women’s Team More Coachable Than Male Football Players
Roy Rodriguez, the new coach of the Danbury, CT-based Northeastern Nitro of the Women’s Football Alliance, says that the women of this newly formed team are far easier to coach than any males he has...
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University of Minnesota Women’s Golf Coach Demoted for Being a Lesbian?
Katie Brenny, who was hired two months ago to be an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota, was abruptly demoted to a desk job and has since resigned. Brenny, a Minnesota native, alleges that...
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ESPN Lists a Horse as One of Its Top Female Sports Stars. Right…
Dear ESPN. You did well at the end of last year. Though we weren’t entirely convinced, you launched your new website, ESPNW, which drew attention to the differences between coverage of male and female...
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The Superbowl Ad Preview: Serving Up More of the Same
We’ve gotten a preview of some of the ads the Superbowl will bring us this year (Sunday, February 6, 2011, mark your calendars), and it’s not looking great. Some of the most expensive commercials of...
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The Guardian’s ‘Women 100′ List Celebrates International Women’s Day
The UK’s Guardian is celebrating the centenary of International Women’s day by asking it readers to help compile an inspirational list of the top 100 women in the world. In celebration of this, here...
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Questions of Victory as Iowa Girl Wins Wrestling Match … By Default
In terms of gender equality, sports are kind of a dicey area. Realistically speaking, there are certain physical differences in men and women that render competition in certain sports … well, uh, not...
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Female Badminton Players Ordered to Wear Skirts to Drum Up Interest In The Sport
One would hope that the oppressive guidelines of dress codes would never go beyond the plaid skirts of catholic school girls, but unfortunately, dress codes follow one into the adult world. While...
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There Is Nothing Funny About Ladies Cussing
This past week, Cameron Diaz’s small-budget comedy Bad Teacher premiered, and the critics aren’t amused. Most agree that you’ve probably seen Bad Teacher before. And while it was funny when it was...
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Are Current Tennis Match Regulations Sexist?
In an article in Canada’s National Post, sports writer Joe O’Connor presents the following conundrum: Women play 60 minutes in hockey, 90 in soccer and run 26.2 miles marathons, just like men do. And...
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Winterguard: Sport or Hobby?
The “is it a sport or not?” debate vis a vis everything from women’s skiing to cheerleading has been ongoing for some time now … and there’s pretty much universal support for the fact that it is, at...
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