I’m sitting here watching Venus Williams and Jelena Jankovic battle it out for a U.S. Open semifinal spot at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, and flipping over to ESPN2 to watch the Phoenix Mercury and Detroit Shock in the first game of the WNBA finals. Life is good for us sporty gals. […]
My partner and I took our son to his first baseball game this past weekend. It was a minor-league game, since we figured that at four years old, his attention span might not last a full nine innings, even with Cracker Jacks and ice cream. (We were right, despite the attraction of the grinning-baseball mascot.)
The Wimbledon Tennis Championships start today, making this a time of celebration for us sports-loving types. Even though legend Martina Navratilova retired last fall after winning her 59th career title (at the U.S. Open), she’ll be participating as a commentator for the BBC. Defending champion and out lesbian Amélie Mauresmo is one of the top
Today is the start of the WNBA preseason, giving me a needed dose of women’s-sports watching to tide me over until Wimbledon starts at the end of June. I am, as it happens, hopelessly inept at actually playing basketball (and softball, for that matter), but am finding I have to raise my game this year.
The big news in lesbian sports this week was the resignation of non-lesbian Rene Portland, head coach of the women’s basketball team at Penn State. Her departure was ostensibly voluntarily, but it’s no great leap to think it had something to do with years of questions, investigations, and lawsuits (one championed by the National Center
In honor of tonight’s season premiere of Work Out, this is an open thread for your thoughts on fitness and motherhood, such as: Has motherhood affected your fitness level, either because you were pregnant or because of changed eating habits or lifestyle? If one partner carried your child(ren) and the other didn’t, were there any
The first episode of Work Out, Season Two, starring lesbian fitness trainer Jackie Warner, is available now—two days before premiering on television—for free download on iTunes. (Thanks to After Ellen for the tip.) I’m a fan of the show, despite its editing for melodrama. Jackie is a successful woman with a good business sense as
A few sports-related items to get your blood pumping this weekend: Season Two of Workout, starting lesbian fitness trainer and entrepreneur Jackie Warner, starts Tuesday, March 20. Aside from watching Jackie work out her body, we get to see her working things out with girlfriend Mimi. The two broke up at the end of last
Soccer superstars Mia Hamm and Julie Foudy have been selected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame, and will be inducted this August. Hamm was selected on 137 of the 141 ballots cast, a new high in votes received. What on earth were the other four thinking?
All women competitors will now receive the same prize money as their male peers in the Wimbledon Championships, the All England Club announced today. This leaves the French Open as the only tennis Grand Slam without prize equity throughout the tournament, although it offers the same money to the men’s and women’s champions. This is
