Life and Sports
Brava Title IX Anniversary!
This week marks the 40-year anniversary of Title IX, which mandated schools—high schools and colleges—that receive federal funding, cannot discriminate on the basis of gender. It meant the beginning of legitimate women’s sports. I think it’s significant that this law was put into place the same year (1972) that Ms. Magazine dropped its first issue. …
Read MoreMen & Women: Can We Talk Sports?
For now, I have transformed from the Funny Football Female to the Bawdy Basketball Broad — at least for the next 2 weeks during these NBA Championship Finals. The NFL season is still about 90 days away (sigh) and I long for some “necessary roughness.” And I’m not alone. While 43.2% of NFL fans are…
Read MoreCan the NBA Survive the Injuries?
Because of the NBA lockout, this season was shortened from 82 games to 66. In spite of, or because of this shortened season, the theme of the playoffs has been: Important – Players – Out – With – Injuries. Derrick Rose, the dominant player of my hometown Chicago Bulls, had surgery on a torn ACL…
Read MoreDiscovering Anthony Davis
So I had a “Placido Domingo” moment the other day watching the Final Four Men’s game between Kentucky and Louisville. As you know, I don’t follow NCAA Basketball until March Madness; then, I’m all over it. So this big 6-foot 6-inch kid comes out for Kentucky named Anthony Davis, and they say he’s a freshman,…
Read MoreNecessary Roughness Rules March Madness
So I guess the Madness part is that I watched 8 college basketball games a day for two days straight this last weekend. I know I’m an official Football Girl, but there’s something that grabs me about young men and women giving their all, playing a sport with all their heart 100 percent full out,…
Read MoreIs success contagious?
Imagine this: You are a rabid baseball fan in St. Louis. At the end of the season, your team barely makes the playoffs. In a best out of 7 playoff World Series, your team is down 3-2 to the Texas Rangers. Your team has to win the next two games in a row to win.…
Read MoreFootball Inspiration: Get Your Passion, Folks, from the NFL!
Football is such inspiration…ladies, there is so much to LOVE about watching football, it’s not even funny! If nothing else, you HAD to love Head Coach Harbaugh of the Baltimore Ravens being all fatherly, and KISSING running back Ray Rice on the head! I’m telling you, the NFL brings out the beast in men, but…
Read MoreMy Love/Hate Relationship With NFL Preseason Football
I have a love/hate relationship with preseason NFL Football. LOVE the fact they are playing FOOTBALL in a STADIUM. Love the spandex, the thighs IN the spandex, and all the running around of the beautiful, athletic bods. However, there’s the HATE side. It looks like the team we know and love at the beginning, but…
Read MoreThanks to supporters of “Necessary Roughness”
So I get this great comment on my Facebook Wall from Chrissy Carew, who sought me out because a friend told her about my book, “Necessary Roughness: New Rules for the Contact Sport of Life,” and Chrissy is a “football girl.” Besides being a master personal and business coach www.coachcarew.com , she founded another website,…
Read MoreWomen: Do You Play Fantasy Football? Why?
Over 18 million people engage in Fantasy Football in this country. Some of them are women. Can women be happy (fulfilled) playing Fantasy Football? This woman cannot. My brother-in-law sweetly invited me to join his “league”—he has 14 men and one woman so far, and I turned him down. He responded, “maybe down the road.”…
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