Via SI.com, a report on a MLB first in nearly 18 years:
Jen Pawol became the first woman to umpire an MLB spring training game since 2007 when she worked the game between the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals in [...]
February
25,
2024
Via the New York Intelligencer, commentary on the vast potential of women's sports:
The thing about truly special athletes — the ones we’ll be talking about for the rest of our lives, the ones our kids will ask us [...]
February
23,
2024
Via Bond University, commentary on potential - and limitations - of sports diplomacy:
The effectiveness of the power of sports to save women's lives was vividly demonstrated at the Sydney Cricket Ground earlier [...]
February
21,
2024
Via SI.com, an article on the exciting growth of girls flag football:
Two of the greatest athletes in American sports reminisced for the first time in years, a few miles west of the Las Vegas Strip, which was [...]
Via SI.com, a report on the recent hiring of Jenny Cavnar as baseball's first woman primary play-by-play announcer:
Jenny Cavnar was named the Oakland Athletics’ play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports California on Tuesday [...]
February
14,
2024
Via Historica Canada, a wonderful celebration of Norman Kwong, the first CFL player of Chinese Canadian origin:
Born in Calgary in 1929, Norman Kwong’s family ran a grocery store located in the historic Bridgeland-Riverside [...]