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Women's Sports

Conversation: WBCA’s Smith Discusses the Pink Zone

How could you miss an entire week of pink uniforms in women’s college basketball? The increasingly-popular Pink Zone initiative recently wrapped up its third year. The mission is the same: to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond. But the numbers are growing. [...]

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Changemakers Search for Ways to Use Sports to Help Girls and Women Ending Soon

You’ve got one week left to to propose a way to leverage sport for positive social change in the lives of girls and women. The Nike Gamechangers “Change the Game for Women in Sport” initiative will close submissions on February 25. This project hopes to catalyze change for women through sport and bring [...]

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India Sports Project Hopes to Impact Girls Who Have Never Played Anything

The Girls Who Have Never Played Anything is perhaps an appropriately named project to fund a sports program at Pardada Pardadi Girls Vocational School in India.
This slide presentation assesses the culture this way: “In rural India, life is hard – especially for girls. Considered a burden, girls aren’t sent to school, but do household [...]

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Wilma McNabb Helps Launch National Title IX Campaign

Philadelphia’s Surburban One Sports reported that Wilma McNabb, the mother of Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb, last week helped launch the Youth Sports and Title IX Campaign, “V is for Victory. So is IX.” The national campaign “is aimed at educating students, parents and administrators about Title IX, the federal law banning sex-based discrimation [...]

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Mutombo Hosting DC Party; Hamm’s Event Nears $200k; More Barrett-Jackson News

NBA player Dikembe Mutombo is hosting a Presidential Inauguration party tonight in DC. Mutombo’s Party with a Purpose event is benefiting the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, which provides comprehensive and innovative public health services in Africa to address urgent medical needs and preventable diseases (Dikembe Mutombo Foundation).
Hamm’s Soccer Challenge: MLB.com’s Rhett Bollinger covered the Mia [...]

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Hamm Discusses Celebrity Soccer Challenge

MLSnet.com’s Dylan Butler profiled the Mia Hamm and Nomar Garciaparra Celebrity Soccer Challenge, which takes place Saturday at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.
Hamm, on last year’s event raising more than $150,000: “I think we were surprised at just the enthusiasm of everyone involved, from the soccer community (in Los Angeles) to the celebrities [...]

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Changemakers Effort Looks For New Ideas to Help Women in Sports

Women Gamechangers (0:40)
Building on the success of the first “Sport for a Better World Competition,” Changemakers is now in search for the best new ideas to advance the participation of women in sports.
Ashoka’s Changemakers and Nike continue their partnership to identify, inspire and bring together the next wave of innovators eager to change the game [...]

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Mia Hamm and Nomar Garciaparra Looking Towards Saturday’s Annual Soccer Benefit

Soccer’s Mia Hamm and MLB’s Nomar Garciaparra, wife and husband, are set to host their annual charity soccer match benefiting Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Mia Hamm Foundation this Saturday at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. Proceeds from the event benefit bone marrow transplant patients and their families. Last year’s [...]

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Billie Jean King Named Global Mentor in UNESCO-WTA Tour Partnership

Billie Jean King has been named as “Global Mentor for Gender Equality” in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Sony Ericsson WTA Tour partnership to further gender quality and promote women’s leadership in all spheres of society. The partnership is also funding of Women’s Sports Foundation’s newly-created Billie Jean King [...]

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Go Out and Play: Women’s Sports Foundation Releases Youth Study Results

Go Out and Play from Womens Sports on Vimeo.
Go Out and Play: Youth Sports in America (2:54)
Go Out and Play: Youth Sports in America is an exhaustive survey commissioned by the Women’s Sports Foundation that studied of children’s participation in sports and exercise. The central focus is on how the intersections among families, schools [...]

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GoGoGirl! Program a Primary Focus of Women’s Sports Foundation

GoGoGirl! Success Story (1:48)
GoGirlGo! is the primary programming focus of the Women’s Sports Foundation. The program is designed to combat the alarming physical and psychological health hazards affecting America’s young girls. GoGirlGo! uses sport and physical activity as an educational intervention that supports girls’ health and wellness in childhood and early womanhood.
The GoGirlGo! program [...]

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Donna Lopiano, Jackie Joyner-Kersee Lead the List of Featured Videos

Several videos have hit YouTube in recent days:
Lopiano: Donna Lopiano, former CEO of Women’s Sports Foundation Donna Lopiano argues that high costs of organized sports and a de-emphasis on physical education are creating a generation of unhealthy, sedentary children (FORA.tv):

Organized Sports – Donna Lopiano (5:19)
JJK: Six-time Olympic medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee appeared on Bloomberg Television to [...]

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