Via SI.com, an article on Allyson Felix's efforts to help ensure that the increased attention on women's sport carries over into the Paris Olympic Games:
Allyson Felix knows that the recent wave of attention on women’s [...]
June
6,
2024
Via The Washington Post, an article on how - in the fight over transgender participation in U.S. sports - the right to play is simply an opening act:
Before the hate, she changed in peace, transforming out of her body and [...]
Via NBC News, a report on the London Marathon's recent decision to give the same prize money to wheelchair athletes:
In a global first for equality in sports, wheelchair athletes and non-disabled runners [...]
Via USA Today, a look at why this WNBA draft is a landmark moment (not just because of Caitlin Clark):
Before Caitlin Clark captivated the nation this year in women’s basketball, Purdue University professor [...]
April
14,
2024
Tomorrow marks the 128th running of the prestigious and historic Boston Marathon, but it wasn’t until 1972 — 75 years after the inaugural race — that women were officially allowed to enter. Women were “not physiologically [...]
Courtesy of The New Yorker, a look at the exponential growth of women's basketball:
For years, television ratings were taken as a proxy of the popularity of college basketball, and the numbers for women’s [...]