Keeping Score

Update

Well, I've been AWOL for a while. This semester has been a doozy. I'm actually presenting that paper I wrote about women's basketball blogs, message boards, etc. today at a conference here in Boston. It's the Popular Culture Association and they have a Sports division.  I've also finally finished a study on women's sports coverage in newspapers and submitted that for another conference. And after putting the book about the WNBA and the media to the side for a bit while I finished up those papers, I'm back to it. And once the semester ends in a few weeks, it will be all writing the book all the time!

More on Wimbeldon

A follow up to an earlier post: The Sports Frog blog argues that the women players at Wimbeldon should make even more than the men because they a play a better game.

I was led to this post from the Sports Law Blog - they have some great stuff on there if you don't already read it - particulary on racial issues.

Native Americans and sports

USA Today has an article on Native American tribes that own sports teams or invest in sport ventures  - including the Mohegan Tribe in Conn., which became the first non-NBA owner of a WNBA team - the Connecticut Sun (the team I followed this past summer for a book I'm working on about how the media covers women's sports).

Speaking of the Sun - they announced on Wed. that they are trading one of my favorite players - Taj McWilliams-Franklin - she's a class act. Sigh.

Finally!!

Today it was announced that Wimbeldon will finally pay women and men equal prize money.

The weight of a woman

The New York Times had an article yesterday on how women athletes are embracing their bigger, stronger, and faster selves.

Learning something new every day

The New York Times profiles Yelena Isinbayeva - a Russian pole vaulter, who I had never heard of - and according to this piece, I'm not alone - she is pretty amazing and "has broken 19 world records (both indoor and outdoor) and won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens"

Cincinnati Sizzle

MSBNC has a story on women's football - including a profile of one team, the Cincinnati Sizzle.

Road to Vancouver

I caught some of the U.S. women's national ice skating on Saturday. Great skaters, but all have issues, and the U.S. talent pool does seem light. Meissner squeaked out a win.

Serena wins :)

A nice wrap-up of Serena Williams triumph at the Australian Open in the New York Times. I love the pic they're running with this, showing the crush of photographers.

Exercised-induced asthma or not

USAToday has an interesting piece female athletes who've been diagnosed with exercise-induced asthsma, actually have a little-known breathing condidtion called vocal cord disorder (VCD).