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...don’t hate the player, hate the game. I don’t hate men’s sports, but I do hate the game of gender appeal differences in sports. We’ve tried dozens of initiatives to change this point of view. Title IX. Establishing the WNBA. Putting the Women’s College World Series on ESPN. Still, the stigma lives on. Most people I have talked to have told me they had no idea what a fast-paced and exciting sport softball was until they saw a college game...
...Yo’ Jollies Vol. IX...
...take sports very seriously but women win medals and championships. "It is a strange phenomenon. There are few countries in the world where the most respected athletes, the role models, all happen to be women," says Congresswoman Gabriela Perez de Solar. (Check out a story about how Title IX revolutionized U.S. women's sports...
...game to have. And the crowd knew it. Shirtless men skirted the sideline, not one person in the stands remained seated during overtime, and the noise was of a magnitude rarely seen at a women’s soccer game. It’s been 36 years since Title IX, and the frenzied enthusiasm of the fans demonstrated just how far women’s sports have come. “The crowd meant a lot; it meant a lot for women’s sports in general at Harvard,” Rhodes said. “To have...
...wonder if the site is advertising some kind of golf-escort service. Are marketing ploys like Play Golf Designs setting women's sports back a decade or two? "When women athletes are treated as sex objects, it runs contrary to the spirit of equality that laws like Title IX are intended to promote," says Jocelyn Samuels, vice president for education and employment at the National Women's Law Center. (See the top 10 female sports heroes...