Over the past year, I’ve had numerous conversations with people, including family members, who believe the whole transgender issue is a big old nothing-burger. They say it’s just another political football used to score points with the right to drum up rage and, ultimately, votes. I wish that were true. In its never-ending genuflection to extreme activists, the Biden administration continues to undo years of women’s rights efforts with the single stroke of a pen. Late last week, Biden, in...
When it comes to women’s sports, Joe Biden and James Brown agree: This is a man’s world. This is the only conclusion to draw after the Department of Education recently released an update to Title IX that expands existing prohibitions against discrimination based on “sex” to include, among other things, discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.The president and his administration just proved that all their talk about women’s rights is empty rhetoric meant to pacify his...
Women's rugby in the U.S. is going professional with the new Women's Elite Rugby competition. The league will officially launch next year with between 6 and 8 teams.
Global sports giants have been accused of failing women by not going nearly far enough in designing boots for the specific needs of female feet. Experts have told talkSPORT that neither traditional
After a historic inaugural campaign, the awards continue to pile up for the Iowa women’s wrestling team. Head coach Clarissa Chun was named the USA Women’s Wrestling Coach of the Year on April 20. The announcement was made by the organization during the 2024 Olympic Team Trials in State College, Pennsylvania. This is Chun’s second
A promising young surfer, then 13-year-old Bethany Hamilton’s world was turned upside down when she lost her arm in a shark attack. On “Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey,” Bethany detailed how her family’s faith in God helped her through these troubling times: “My dad worked really hard — like two to three jobs at a time, so we had a really simple childhood. But they gave me so much. They gave me so much time, and they gave me my faith in God. And so, when I lost my arm, it was almost like...
It was billed as a race that would be harder to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a hugely competitive race and set a new women’s-only world record. Jepchirchir, regarded as one of the greatest female distance runners of all time, raised her arms in jubilation as she crossed the tape in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds. The Kenyan broke the women’s-only record – the...
An endowment of $1.05 million will fund the Diana Bennett Career Development Program for Women’s Sports, according to a Wednesday news release from the UNLV Athletics Department.
Over 400 former and current collegiate, professional and Olympic athletes urged the NCAA to not ban transgender athletes from women’s college sports, according to a letter sent out on Tuesday. “We implore you, the NCAA’s highest governing body and members of an organization focused on supporting the wellbeing of not just athletes but sport itself,
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has taken action against the Biden administration’s revised Title IX rule, in which sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. The revision also fails to forbid schools from enacting bans on transgender athletes competing against biological females, which Carr believes upends the foundation of women’s
The five students who forfeited a shot-put competition on April 18 in protest following the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling to block West Virginia's Save Women’s Sports Act have been barred from competing in the event in their next track and field meet.
As women’s sports continue to capture audiences through March Madness and soccer, will agencies and brands be able to channel some of that momentum in the growing esports and gaming spaces?