From marketing exec to bodybuilder
An interesting profile in New York Times sports today on a 51-year-old Swedish woman who went from a life as a marketing executive to a life as a competing amateur body builder.
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An interesting profile in New York Times sports today on a 51-year-old Swedish woman who went from a life as a marketing executive to a life as a competing amateur body builder.
The New York Times has an Associated Press profile of the Women’s Professional Football League
So fall semester has started. I've been on hiatus from the blog most of the summer - I've been writing my book and it took most of my time and attention this summer. Plus I'm expecting a baby in November, and that made getting the book done even more important. It's not done, but I'm getting there. But now that I'm back teaching, I'm also hoping to get back to the blog until the bambino arrives.
I'm not sure if that is the best slogan to promote the U.S. Women's Soccer team (the slogan appears on their Website). They're playing right now in China for the FIFA World Cup and there has been some sports press on why this team isn't getting the attention it deserves. George Vecsey at the New York Times weighs in here, Christine Brennan of USAToday argues that FIFA made a huge mistake in scheduling the event in September, one of the busiest sports months (meaning men's sports months) of the year. As Brennan notes in her piece "Only seven U.S. media outlets are heading to China to cover the event" The Associated Press also wrote about the lack of interest in the team. And Sports Illustrated looked at why women's athletes get no respect. None of these pieces (except for Brennan, who touches upon it) talks about the sports media own role in the lack of attention on women athletes/sports. It's the question I've been pondering the past few years - which comes first - sports coverage of a sport or fan interest of a sport, and how much interest is enough interest to drive sports coverage?
