Via the Washington Post, a report on Harry Edwards, the leading scholar in the sociology of sport:
Harry Edwards remains an imposing presence at 6-foot-8 as he eases his way into an office at the San Francisco 49ers’ [...]
December
2,
2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how a women's college volleyball team became the center of the transgender athlete debate:
On the court, they seem like any other college women’s volleyball team. At a recent [...]
November
8,
2024
Courtesy of The New Yorker, a look at one college women's basketball player who has been central to the fight to end amateurism and improve gender equity in the N.C.A.A., and her story underscores the way that college sports are [...]
October
25,
2024
Via Variety, news of a new weekly podcast, examing sports, race, culture, gender, and more:
Jemele Hill is returning to the weekly podcast game — less than a month before the 2024 U.S. elections — with [...]
Via The Athletic, an article on Titans assistant Lori Locust who is breaking down doors for female coaches in the NFL:
All Joe Headen could hear was yelling. The Susquehanna Township (Pa.) High School football coach was [...]
October
12,
2024
Via Forbes, a report on Jessica Campbell, the NHL's first woman coach:
The National Hockey League took a historic step toward gender equity this week as Jessica Campbell became the first woman to coach in an NHL regular [...]