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Trailblazing Hockey Player Mel Wakabayashi Remembered

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July 24, 2023

Courtesy CBC, a report on trailblazing hockey player Mel Wakabayashi: Mel Wakabayashi, a Chatham Sports Hall of Famer who played hockey for the Michigan Wolverines, passed away earlier this month at 80. He's being [...]

Afghanistan Women’s Team Representing A Country That Doesn’t Recognize Them

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July 24, 2023

Via BBC Sport, a report on the Afghanistan women's soccer team which is no longer recognised by their country or FIFA: Some players are doing last-minute boot checks, others putting on their shin guards. One is adjusting her [...]

Women in Football Fail to Score Top Jobs Off the Pitch

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July 23, 2023

Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on challenge faced by women in football to join the executive level of clubs: Andreea Koenig, a director of French football club Racing Club de Lens, says often in her job she walks [...]

Athlete Moms Are Fighting Battles in and out of Sports. What Will It Take to Win?

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July 22, 2023

Via Global Sport Matters, an article on how the past decade has seen unprecedented institutional gains for pregnant and parenting women athletes, yet a persistent maternal health crisis, the fight for bodily autonomy, and the [...]

Megan Rapinoe: Creating Space On and Off the Field

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July 22, 2023

Courtesy of The Washington Post, a look at how Megan Rapinoe’s incandescent career changed more than women’s soccer: The tattoo, petite and scripted in cursive, reads: “Nature ran her course.” Megan Rapinoe had the [...]

At the Women’s World Cup, Mothers Are Flourishing

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July 22, 2023

Via The Economist, a report that football is at last accepting that players can have both children and careers: The current generation of American women footballers have already struck one significant blow for equality. In [...]

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