Happy Holidays!
I'll be on vacation for the next week - won't be blogging until I return. Happy New Year to everyone.
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I'll be on vacation for the next week - won't be blogging until I return. Happy New Year to everyone.
Good news for the WNBA for its 10th season starting next May - the league will have expanded coverage on ESPN2 with weekly Tuesday night game broadcasts. ABC will also air some games.
The LPGA granted an age exception and is allowing 17-year-old Morgan Pressel full memebership to the league. (The age limit is usually 18 and Pressel will turn 18 three months into the season). Most sites rans wire stories, but here is The Desert Sun
In his 2005 best and worst of the sports media, Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated makes a suggestion to ESPN's show "The Sports Reporters" ...
"Boston Globe columnist Jackie MacMullan recently was so eloquent and fiery on Outside the Lines regarding a segment on Penn State coach Rene Portland and the allegations from former players that she is anti-gay (Portland has denied the allegations) that it reinforced a suggestion I made a long time ago to ESPN's The Sports Reporters. Isn't it time a female sports reporter was made a permanent member of the panel? This isn't a knock on the long-tenured and well-coiffed law firm of Lupica, Ryan, Albom, Whitlock and Rhoden. Like The Love Boat's Ted Lange, we appreciate their service, even when Ryan's hyperbole reaches Mt. Everest proportions. But new voices are a good thing, and the pool of talented female sports reporters (MacMullan, Selena Roberts, Sally Jenkins, Michelle Voepel, Dana Jacobson, Liz Robbins, Lisa Salters etc..) would keep the chair filled till Stephen A. Smith took his last breath. Meaning a very long time."
The first collegiate or professional team to play in New Orleans since Katrina was the Tulane women's basketball team, which defeated Central Connecticut on Sunday. Here is ESPN's story (actually it's an Associated Press story on ESPN's site)
The Red Reporter is looking for nominations for the best sports blog here
The Women's Media Center is a new organization based in New York City - according to their Website their mission is "to assure
that women are included as sources for and subjects of the media--and that
women media professionals are afforded equal opportunities for employment
and advancement."
I spoke with Melissa Silverstein, one of the writers/editors, the other day about coverage of women's sports - an area she is hoping the Women's Media Center will tackle. The Website launched only recently and they have big plans to expand it.
My DSL line is finally back up and running, my grades are done, my students are back home for the holiday break, my article on collegiate women head coaches is off for editing, ... now I have time to catch up with life here at home and on this blog. First, on my to-do list is to watch the HBO documentary "Dare to Dream" on the former U.S. Women's soccer team. I missed the originally airing (Sunday, 12/11), but thank the gods for on-demand cable access. Next, is to catch up on women b-ball action, particularly the media coverage and the blogs.
I came across this study published in The Sport Journal titled "A Look at Women's Participation in Sports in Maryland Two-Year Colleges" - showing some that some of the male/female discrepancies seen at the four-year level (e.g., number of women head coaches) are even more prevalent at the two-year colleges.
Karen Crouse of the New York Times has a profile of U.S. skier Lindsey Kildow - a potential Turin star with a sad story about that father/daughter tension that seems to be common among many young world-class female athletes.
I was skimming the sports home page of the New York Times Website this morning and I noticed this headline and blurb that linked into the story:
It made me pause and ask myself - Are they talking about men's soccer or women's? Or both? Of course, I immediately knew the answer - the story is about men's soccer. If it was women's, they would have put in the lede - "women's college soccer" And that in a nutshell is one of the subtle differences between reporting on men and women's sports.
