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The Quest To Bring Women's Kickboxing To India
KOLKATA, India—Sonia Das is three-fourths the height of her opponent, yet on a sweltering mid-morning at the APC Park in eastern Kolkata, she punched and kicked with all her might. The first-ever kickboxing championship for girls at the neighborhood level, the Meyeder Para Kickboxing Championship, ...
The Wimbledon Women's Quarterfinal Round Is Going To Be A Lot Of Fun
Stocked with players new and old, the world No. 2 and the world No. 87, multi-Grand Slam champions, and those with everything to prove, the 2017 Wimbledon women’s quarterfinals are delightfully uncertain....
Why Is Ashley Wagner Apologizing For Her Sport In <i>ESPN The Magazine</i>'s Body Issue?
I think figure skating has this stereotype as a sport for little girls—that we are these pretty porcelain dolls ......
Women In Wrestling Have Taken A Hard Road To Get To Where They Are Now
Recently, Netflix released the first season of GLOW, a dramedy based on the production of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, the comedic late ’80s women’s wrestling promotion that was, ever so briefly, a smash hit in syndication. Many reviews have focused on how a gifted, majority-female cast and creativ...
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Minor League Team Wants You To Come Ogle Some Ladies At "Hourglass Appreciation Night" [UPDATE]
Minor league baseball is a land of bizarre promotions; from speed dating night to toilet seat night, farm clubs will always go the extra absurd mile to keep up the enthusiasm—and this can be excused, when the on-field entertainment consists of just-passing-throughs and never-will-bes....
Serbian Women's Volleyball Team Strikes Ill-Advised Pose
The Serbian women’s volleyball team secured a place in the 2018 FIVB Women’s World Championship in Japan after defeating Poland in a qualifier over the weekend. After the victory, they posed for the photo above, which originally appeared above the FIVB’s story about the game but was later removed. ...
Petra Kvitova Wins First Match After Knife Attack: "It Really Wasn't About The Game Today"
Five months after a home invader attacked her and slashed her hand with a knife, Petra Kvitova won in her return to the court. The No. 15 seed beat the unseeded Julia Boserup 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the French Open today....
World No. 1 Angelique Kerber Upset In First Round Of French Open By Ekaterina Makarova
Angelique Kerber became the first women’s No. 1 ever to lose on the first day of the French Open, falling to unseeded Ekaterina Makarova 6-2, 6-2....
On The Women's Side, The French Open Is Anyone's
If the men’s winner of the French Open is a certitude—Rafael Nadal looks like a lock for his 10th title at Roland Garros—the women’s side is the opposite. Featuring an injured Simona Halep, the triumphant return of Petra Kvitova, Serena Williams off somewhere growing a human, no Maria Sharapova (co...
It'll Cost You $130 To "Volunteer" At The Women's PGA Championship
That this PGA listing uses the word “volunteer” so often makes it seem like they’re rubbing in the fact that they want suckers to pay to work 16 hours for free at the Women’s PGA Championship. Experience Olympia Fields Country Club in Illinois and get one of the (limited) food and water vouchers!...
Carli Lloyd Elbowed An Opponent In The Head
The FA Women’s Super League, England’s top soccer league for women, is currently in its Spring Series—an interim league before the 2017-18 season begins in earnest. In Sunday’s match between Manchester City and Yeovil Town, World Cup hero Carli Lloyd received a straight red card for elbowing Annie H...
The Full-Court Pressure Of The Somali-American Sportswoman
Most Twin Cities high school cross country and track teams have Somali students on the roster. Some of these prep runners have gone on to successful college and even professional running careers, like former Minneapolis South runner Hassan Mead, who represented the U.S. at the Rio Olympics....
Joanna Jędrzejczyk Is The Greatest Female Fighter Ever
Joanna Jędrzejczyk fucking rules....
Why Aren't Women's Basketball Fans Following Their Players To The Pros?
We got next. That was the WNBA’s promotional slogan during its first official season of play, two decades ago in 1997. In essence, players were asking the NBA to step aside and let them have a turn on the hardwood to showcase their basketball acumen. No one knew how long the league would last....
Woman Who Doesn’t Know Who Won Most Recent Women’s World Cup Elected To FIFA Council
Mahfuza Akhter Kiron of Bangladesh was elected to FIFA’s Asian Football Council today, occupying one of six places on the council that are specifically reserved for a woman. She defeated Australia’s Moya Dodd, an outspoken advocate of including more women in soccer’s governing bodies, 27 votes to 17...
Ellie Downie's European Gold Is Another Win For The Ascendant Brits<em></em>
Ellie Downie broke down in tears after her floor exercise score was announced at today’s European championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It placed her ahead of Zsofia Kovacs of Hungary by a razor-thin margin, giving her the gold in the all-around. The 17-year-old Downie’s title is the first ever all...
North Dakota Women's Hockey Player: We Only Learned On Twitter That The School Was Cutting Our Team
The University of North Dakota did not tell women’s hockey players that their program would be cut before the news leaked to the media, forcing players to wait hours for a chance to hear from the school after initially finding out via Twitter....
18-Year-Old Soccer Star Mallory Pugh Is Leaving UCLA To Turn Pro
Mallory Pugh, the blazingly fast and wildly skilled winger who played with the U.S. women’s team in the 2016 Olympics, is leaving UCLA to turn pro, according to a statement released by the school. The 18-year-old enrolled at UCLA in January and would have begun her freshman season in the fall. Inst...
Rachel Daly Curls Brilliant Goal Into Corner Of The Net
Rachel Daly put the Houston Dash up 2-0 over the Chicago Red Stars today with a simply beautiful goal that curved into the corner of the net at juuuust the right angle:...
This NCAA Gymnast Is Doing A Syrian Refugee Crisis-Inspired Floor Routine
The theme for most NCAA floor routines is “fun.” This year’s viral floor routine belongs to UCLA’s Hallie Mossett, who performs to a medley of Beyoncé music. Last year’s most popular routine was also performed by a Bruin—Sophina DeJesus dabbed and whipped her way to a profile in the L.A. Times and a...