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NCAA Once Again Bans Fun
The College Softball World Series is coming up in two weeks, and thanks to a new NCAA initiative, it’ll be a lot less fun than last year. Regional tournaments open this weekend, and the NCAA has decided that they will crack down and enforce an arcane rule against props in the dugout starting with t...

Even Companies Trying To Be Diverse Suck At Being Diverse
Think about it like a math problem: When two out of four final candidates for a job are women, there is a 50 percent chance that the candidate hired in the end will be a woman. Makes sense, right? So when one out of the final four candidates for a job is a woman, what do you think the chances are th...

Cyclist Eats It Into The Barriers At Worst Possible Time
Marianne Vos is one of the most accomplished women in the professional peloton. The Dutch rider has won 12 World Championships and two gold medals across every discipline of cycling save mountain biking, and she’s only 28. She was in position to win a nine-up sprint at Dwars door Westhoek yesterday ...

Report: Candace Parker Left Off United States Olympic Basketball Team
Candace Parker is one of the best players in the WNBA, a two-time MVP who does cool dunks and has made the All-WNBA first or second team in every season she’s been healthy. She has also won two gold medals with the United States Olympic team, but according to a report from ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne, s...

Ex-Iowa State Basketball Star Details Years Of Racial Discrimination In Lawsuit Against Coach
Former Iowa State Cyclones star Nikki Moody filed a lawsuit against her former coach Bill Fennelly late last week for racial discrimination, on the grounds that he had repeatedly called her a “thug” and verbally abused her throughout the course of her career. She also names the school and the state ...

Loyola University Chicago Investigating Head Coach Sheryl Swoopes After Mass Transfers
Basketball legend Sheryl Swoopes has been coaching the Loyola University Chicago women’s basketball team since 2013. After the 2014-15 season, five players transferred to different programs. This year, 10 of the team’s 12 returning players have transferred or requested a release from their scholarsh...

Baby Angry About Bowling
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Tyler Summitt Resigns As Louisiana Tech Women's Hoops Coach After Inappropriate Relationship
Tyler Summitt, 25-year-old son of Hall-of-Fame coach Pat Summitt, has stepped down as head coach of the Louisiana Tech women’s basketball team after cryptically admitting to an inappropriate relationship. Speculation immediately and logically ensued that the relationship in question was with one of ...

Breanna Stewart Is A Woman Of Her Word
To nobody’s surprise, the UConn women’s basketball team finished its perfect season with an 82-51 victory over Syracuse in last night’s national championship game. If you’re the kind of jerkass who is constantly looking for reasons to slag women’s college basketball, you could point to UConn’s wire-...

USA Beats Canada In Overtime To Claim Women's World Hockey Championship
The United States defeated Canada for the third straight time in claiming its seventh IIHF women’s world championship tonight when Alex Carpenter scored at 12:30 of the overtime period in Kamloops....

Geno Auriemma Doesn't Think Too Much Of Dan Shaughnessy
The UConn women’s basketball team breezed into the Elite 8 by beating Mississippi St. 98-38 on Saturday, and barking carrot Dan Shaughnessy did not approve:...

In Praise Of Chantel Osahor's Set-Shot Threes
The Washington Huskies upset the Stanford Cardinal 85-76 this afternoon to book the first ticket to the Final Four in Indianpolis. Chantel Osahor had a career-high 24 points (including three threes) and 18 rebounds to help the Huskies win. Osahor is a six-foot-two forward who’s in the top 15 nationa...

Five-Star Mississippi State Recruit Apologizes After Video Emerges Of Him Allegedly Beating A Woman
Mississippi State football signee Jeffery Simmons apologized in a Facebook post after video turned up that appears to show the five-star recruit attacking a woman....

Captain Of FIU Women's Basketball Team Says Coach Spent Season Sexually Harassing Her
Junior guard Destini Feagin, who is the captain of the Florida International University women’s basketball team, tells the Miami Herald that head coach Marlin Chinn sexual harassed her several times this season, and suspended her when she refused to have a sexual relationship with him....
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Women's Lacrosse Player Repeatedly Bashes Her Opponent In The Head With Her Stick [Update]
An Oregon Ducks women’s lacrosse player was caught on video smacking her opponent in the head with her stick three separate times during the team’s game against Detroit Mercy on Feb. 21....

Hot Damn, Check Out This Christine Sinclair Golazo
Canada and Costa Rica are playing each other in Olympic Qualifiers right now, and Christine Sinclair put Canada up 2-0 with this beauty. This ain’t quite Christen Press’s once-in-a-lifetime first touch, but it’s awful damn good. Poor Costa Rica just keeps getting golazo’d on....

Holy Shit, Christen Press's First Touch Will Make Your Knees Buckle
Oh my god look at this first touch from Christen Press. She doesn’t just expertly control a cross whipped into her, but no-look uses the outside of her foot (her heel?!) to gently drop the ball just a few feet in beside her to wheel around and smash home. It should be illegal to be this skilled and ...

USWNT Players Association Files Withering Response To U.S. Soccer Lawsuit
U.S. Soccer’s lawsuit against the U.S. Women’s National Team Players Association seeks to answer a seemingly simple question: Do the two organizations have a valid collective bargaining agreement, or not?...

U.S. Women's National Team Sued By U.S. Soccer Federation
The United States Soccer Federation sued the union representing Women’s National Team members in federal court Wednesday, an action sure to further fray the already strained bond between the two groups....

Conference Suspends Referees Who Called Technical Foul On Team For Celebrating Buzzer-Beater
NSIC brass have suspended the referees responsible for Friday night’s debacle in Sioux Falls, when USF had an upset win over Division II rival Winona State stolen away by a technical foul called after Cougars fans and players celebrated a long-range, buzzer-beating three-pointer....