Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Former Harvard coach alleges sex discrimination in federal lawsuit

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  Over at my other blog, I have been writing about the "retirement" of women's ice hockey coach, Katey Stone in 2023 amid all...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Hope and concern in West Virginia ruling

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 I attended a rally/vigil last week focused on LGBTQ+ visibility and one of the brilliant speakers spoke to the difficulty of maintaining/ha...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Not saying "I do" to Biden's proposal

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 With the spate of legislation aimed at denying trans people--including trans children--fundamental rights, it would seem like this month...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

The story of the Las Vegas Invitational is not the story

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 I spent part of last Sunday afternoon watching women's college basketball. Iowa took on UConn in the final of the Phil Knight Legacy to...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Winning and failing at the same time

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 A community college in Oregon must pay a former student over a million dollars after a jury decided the school was in breach of contract. ...
Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Pass the professor is a problem

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 I have written previously about the practice of passing from one school to another athletes who have been accused of or found responsible f...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

The local and the global: Anti-trans policies are all connected

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The impetus for this post was a radio segment I heard on my local NPR station about a school district in Lancaster, PA. The school board of ...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Happy Birthday, Title IX!

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 Title IX turned 50 this week. I had a more elaborate plan for a post/piece that I still may enact when I find the time. This post, however,...
Monday, June 20, 2022

NCAA Won't Discuss Trans Inclusion

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[ Cross posted at After Atalanta. ] I virtually attended last week's NCAA annual Inclusion Forum which was celebrating Title IX but als...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

New rule: No passing around bad coaches

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Art Briles, former Baylor head coach, dismissed as part of the house cleaning (that was largely a PR move) in the wake of the sexual assault...
Thursday, March 03, 2022

The day the rowers took action

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 Today marks the 46th anniversary of the Yale women's rowing team's protest of their deplorable conditions.  This event is, of cours...
Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Thanks, Dr. Grant

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 I found out last week that Dr. Christine Grant, former AD at University of Iowa and long time advocate for women's sports and women...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

Settlement at Iowa

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[this is officially old news now but still important to note] It was always going to be a toss up. Which would come to an end first: the pan...
Monday, April 05, 2021

Yes...and...but...well...: The NCAA Tourney and Issues of Equality

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 The following is an only slightly less contorted path through my original thought process in the wake of  Sedona Prince's Tik Tok reve...