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...full name) had a 9-point lead in the first half. Yet the Beavers kept the most infamous streak in college hoops alive. "One little rebound, one little loose ball--if one part of the system gets perturbed a little bit, we win," says Haussler, staring blankly at a locker-room wall. "If you want to look at it scientifically...
...many women are following Evans out the locker-room door. Lost in the recent tidal wave of praise surrounding the 35th anniversary of Title IX, the federal legislation that spawned an explosion in the number of women and girls participating in interscholastic sports, is a disturbing statistic: only 42% of women's college teams are led by a female head coach--the lowest level ever, according to a recent study by two retired Brooklyn College professors. In 1972, the year Title IX outlawed gender discrimination in school sports and any other federally funded education program, that proportion was higher than...
...invites kept coming, I found myself succumbing to the clubhouse mentality that Imus both inspires and cultivates. Sure, I cringed at his and his crew's race-baiting (the Ray Nagin impersonations, the Obama jokes) and at the casual locker-room misogyny (Hillary Clinton's a "bitch," CNN news anchor Paula Zahn is a "wrinkled old prune"), but I told myself that going on the show meant something beyond inflating my precious ego. I wasn't alone. As Frank Rich noted a few years ago, "It's the only show ... that I've been on where you can actually talk...
...with a reference to African-American hair and a random piece of rap slang. (Maybe because older, male media honchos are more conscious of - and thus fixated on - race than gender, much of the coverage of Imus ignored the sexual part of the slur on a show with a locker-room vibe and a mostly male guest list. If Imus had said "niggas" rather than "hos," would his bosses have waited as long...
...McLeod said. Even with the season safely underway, the threat of infection persists according to Pier. “[Risk] is attributed to close physical contact of the sort you get while playing sports and…sharing things within a locker-room – anything from towels or any type of cloth that might be used to wipe sweat off,” he said. Pier also did not rule out the notion–advanced by the New England Journal of Medicine in a 2003 study of the NFL’s St. Louis Rams?...