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ifeminists September 2, 2003 Carey Roberts |
Calling the Bluff on Women's Athletics Let's stop this paternalistic "separate-and-unequal" treatment of female athletes. Let's allow the women to play against the men. |
AskMen.com Mo Arora |
Top 10: Female Physiques In Sports The following women embraced the idea that femininity and athleticism are not mutually exclusive terms: Kerri Walsh... Amy Acuff... Brandy Chastain... Amanda Beard... Natalie Gulbis... Maria Sharapova... Anna Kournikova... etc. |
Sports Illustrated August 6, 2001 L. Jon Wertheim |
Plenty of Anna-tude In his new book Venus Envy: A Sensational Season Inside the Women's Tennis Tour, L. Jon Wertheim draws back the curtain on the soap opera that is the WTA Tour. The following is an excerpt from the chapter on everyone's favorite nonwinner, Anna Kournikova... |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
Female Athlete Salaries Women typically have equal opportunities to play sports as men, but, too often, the compensation is anything but equal. |
Lucire February 1, 2002 |
The rise and rise of Anna Kournikova As Anna Kournikova prepares to pose in paradise for a new photo shoot, we look at what her rise to stardom means for society and women's sports... |
Sports Illustrated July 8, 2002 Phil Taylor |
Dangerous appeal Playing up sexiness in sports can make for a risky game. |
Sports Illustrated November 12, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Still railing on rankings Is it possible that tennis could adopt something similar to golf's World Ranking? Golf's system is based on results over the last two years and uses average points per event, not total points... |
Sports Illustrated April 24, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Anna, Pete ... and Steve Guttenberg Tennis Q&A: Anna Kournikova bandwagon... What must Pete Sampras do to win the French Open this year?... any chance of some young upstart no one has heard off winning one of the big four?... etc. |
Sports Illustrated September 6, 2001 Frank Deford |
Showtime Women's tennis looks ready for prime time... |
Sports Illustrated August 23, 2000 Frank Deford |
Do athletic beauties defy stereotypes? Most arguments about sex, like sex itself, involve both sexes. But currently, a discussion about sexiness in women's sports is pretty much an intra-gender conversation that's only between the ladies. The gentlemen, including this one, are standing on the sidelines, happy only to watch. |
Reason November 2001 Cathy Young |
Good Sports? Despite continuing Title IX controversy, women are having a ball... |
Sports Central June 10, 2006 Tom Kosinski |
Time For Another Battle of the Sexes? In tennis, the controversy over equal prize money for the sexes continues. |
Sports Central July 27, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
The Williams Effect, or Lack Thereof... The public parks tennis program, once a thriving portion of the industry, has been looked to of late as the savior of the United States Tennis Association and the impetus for a whole new generation of tennis players nationwide. |
Sports Illustrated December 4, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Filling the void in New York Now that the women's tour has pulled the incredibly boneheaded -- boy, that's a surprise, tennis administrators being boneheads -- move of going to Germany for the year-ending tournament, what's the chance of the men coming back to New York? |
AskMen.com Steve Seepersaud |
5 Of The Biggest Athlete Endorsement Deals Details on the 5 biggest endorsments deals for athletes. |
Sports Central March 13, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
WTA Tour Faces Grave Challenges in U.S. The WTA Tour has done an amazing job of bringing in good sponsors and partners, all who have helped make the tour a worthwhile entertainment venture. But is the picture as rosey as it might seem? |
Sports Illustrated June 17, 2002 Phil Taylor |
No vacancy U.S. has no room for soccer on its full sports plate. |
Sports Illustrated August 12, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Hewitt's behavior crosses the line Li'l Lleyton Hewitt is under the mistaken impression that his duties end when he leaves the court. Hey, others can be the tour's public face. Sorry, mate, it doesn't work that way. |
Sports Illustrated March 25, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Hewitt on and off the court After Lleyton Hewitt's 6-1, 6-2 drubbing of Tim Henman at Indian Wells, I'm left wondering: Without the help of chicken pox -- or Nicolas Escude and a grass court -- how do you beat this guy? |
Salon.com April 18, 2000 Steve Kettmann |
Martina Navratilova The most daring player in the history of tennis, her attacking style and superb athleticism revolutionized the sport... |
American Family Physician April 1, 2004 |
Sports and Women Athletes: The Female Athlete Triad The female athlete triad affects eating habits, menstrual periods, and bone strength. Know the risk factors, signs and treatment. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 29, 2007 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement Marketing executives value entertainment-related endorsements because of the difficulty of reaching a wide group of consumers using traditional advertising. |
Sports Illustrated May 2, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Pioline is worth watching Tennis Q&A: Cedric Pioline... Mary Pierce... chances of Lindsay Davenport winning the French Open?... etc. |
Sports Illustrated October 9, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
The view on Richard Williams Some interesting responses to my question about why there was, seemingly, so little outrage and righteous indignation regarding the domestic-violence allegations against Richard Williams... |
Sports Illustrated June 26, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
London calling Questions answered: Has Martina Hingis created her own worst enemy in Mary Pierce? Will Pete Sampras choke? Is Arvind Parmar the real deal?... |
Sports Illustrated August 5, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Sampras appears on the rebound If his career was in seriously dire straits after Wimbledon, Pete Sampras bounced back with a vengeance in Toronto. |
Salon.com August 10, 2000 Diane Seo |
The tennis world's new cover boys With Sampras and Agassi aging, men's tennis hopes to excite fans with a fresh crop of young men and a ballsy new ad campaign. |
Salon.com July 4, 2001 Allen Barra |
Coulda been contenders? The Williams sisters had best start putting a little effort into their games, or they'll be looking back at what might have been sooner than they think... |
Sports Central March 28, 2007 Mert Ertunga |
The Strangest Oddities in Tennis Certain oddities in tennis do not get much media space or time. Here are a few examples. |
Sports Illustrated June 19, 2002 Frank Deford |
Solving the Title IX problem Making football a separate entity would benefit both sexes. |
Sports Illustrated March 6, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Anna, Anna everywhere Tennis Q & A. |
Sports Illustrated March 26, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
More on the Williams controversy As one would expect, the Mailbag remains stuffed with questions about l'affaire Williams, a controversy that, for any number of reasons, has struck a deep and resonant chord. Your various takes were all over the map... |
Salon.com January 3, 2003 King Kaufman |
Sports Person of the Year: Serena Williams Lance Armstrong is racking up awards like this, which is preposterous. Salon sets the record straight. |
Sports Illustrated October 16, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
Kudos to the Aussie Open Now that the Australian Open has decided to offer equal prize money to both men and women starting next year, what are your feelings on stuffy, old Wimbledon? Will the Brits ever get over their flowers and strawberries? |
Sports Central October 7, 2004 Mert Ertunga |
Tennis Offseason Reading Picks No tennis to watch? Then read about the game. Tennis books are secret gems that most tennis fans choose to ignore. Here are four worth a trip to the bookstore or library. |
Sports Illustrated March 4, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Guessing game Will Stevenson win a title before Kournikova? |
Sports Illustrated April 30, 2002 L. Jon Wertheim |
Drama Queens A golden age of men's tennis is being overshadowed by a wacky women's tour... |
Sports Central March 24, 2005 Tom Kosinski |
Tennis Angels, Yes; Steroids, No You won't find widespread use of any performance enhancing drugs in tennis -- for a list of sound reasons. And a lot of them are the sport's women athletes, who play at the same competitive level as men. Especially the "Tennis Angels," who are four of the top 200 players in the world! |
Sports Central July 28, 2009 Tom Kosinski |
Is Professional Tennis Dying? What is going on behind the scenes of the professional tours and the professional tennis industry? |
Sports Central October 26, 2010 Tom Kosinski |
Is the Tennis Season Too Long? The tennis season is way too long. Just like basketball, hockey, and baseball (the World Series hasn't even started yet and it's the end of October) tennis has become just another drawn out non-spectacle. |
Sports Illustrated November 15, 2001 Frank Deford |
War games Muslim women athletes offer glimmer of hope... |
Sports Illustrated April 29, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Inside the Fed Cup controversy On the Billie Jean King/House of Capriati battle royal... |
Sports Illustrated August 28, 2002 Frank Deford |
Tennis takes a turn European players are soccer-izing the men's game. |
Sports Illustrated December 31, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
The current Williams legacy Here's a hypo for you: If Venus and Serena Williams were to quit tennis today, what would their legacy be? Would either make the Hall of Fame? Would they be seen as real pioneers or just as talented black players who had a lot of athleticism? |
Sports Illustrated August 2, 2000 Frank Deford |
All sports trends shall come to pass There is a lamentable tendency for the smarty-pants experts to get carried away by some attractive new sports champion and presume that that achievement must somehow portend great and broad significance. In fact, in the culture of sports, there is rarely much change at the top. |
Sports Illustrated November 6, 2001 Jon Wertheim |
Visiting with a former golden girl Carling Bassett was the Anna Kournikova of the 1980s, a player of considerable talent but one whose popularity was based as much on her looks as her tennis. Bassett now reveals battle with eating disorders... |
Sports Illustrated October 7, 2002 Jon Wertheim |
Ladies' might Presenting the top women tennis players of the last 25 years |
Sports Central August 14, 2007 Tom Kosinski |
U.S. Open Series: Is it Serious? This is turning out to be the summer of Serbs. |
Sports Central November 19, 2007 Mert Ertunga |
Tennis Match-Fixing? Don't Believe It In tennis, where theoretically it would be easy to seduce a player into a fixed match, in actuality very little of it goes on, if any. |
Sports Illustrated March 20, 2000 Jon Wertheim |
On Agassi, mags and Hernan Gumy Tennis Q&A |