Should 'hottest' lists be put in the freezer?
I discovered yesterday, through a scathing comment article in The Guardian, that Golf magazine publishes an annual 'Most Beautiful Women in Golf' list.
It's a whole page of pictures and videos of not just female golfers but also, apparently, wives of golfers, celebrated for their beauty.
The Guardian comment . . .
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A New Year's roundup of sporting inequality
My New Year's resolution? Among other things,to blog here more. Every day I think "that's worth looking at" and never get around to it.
So in honour of that, here's a round-up of some stories and issues which have caught my attention in the last week or so.
Earlier this week the New Statesman . . .
Review of the Boat Races coverage
As a follow-up to my blog on Saturday about the Boat Races I thought I'd do a quick overview of the coverage of yesterday's racing - and my own thoughts about the day.
For me and the women I coach the day began at 9am with an outing on a weirdly quiet and fairly benign Tideway: we had to wait for Cambridge to get on the water . . .
Do women's sports "piggyback" off men's?
This morning the chief executive of the Indian Wells tennis tournament stepped down in response to the reaction to one of the most outrageously sexist interviews I've ever read. Raymond Moore said: “If I was a lady player, I’d go down every night on my knees and thank god that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born because they have . . .
Sexist nations?
It's rugby time again! Yes, the Six Nations tournament has started, pubs are revelling in showing the matches on the big screen and selling lots of beer.
But wait. It's not just the rugby-playing men of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales who are taking to the pitches right now. It's also the rugby-playing . . .
Sports Personality of the Year
It's December, so that can only mean one thing in the sporting world: it's time for SPOTY!
Yes, the BBC has announced its shortlist for the Sports Personality of the Year Award, that rather awkward concept which pits athletes from minority sports against global names, and provokes an annual argument over whether we're . . .
Positive images
There are all sorts of studies out there about diversity in all its spheres which show the importance of positive role models and having something to aspire to. Sport is no different.
That's why the lack of coverage of women's sport in the media is potentially so damaging, and why negative comments made about the few . . .
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