Women’s sports and social causes

Calls on the fledgling Women’s Professional Soccer League to openly embrace feminist issues is deplorable ideological twaddle and oblivious to the reality that all women’s pro sports entities are struggling with their business models.
My guest post at Pitch Invasion, which devotes quite a bit of space to women’s soccer and the culture of the sport. [...]

Posted at 10:25 pm on September 15, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: issues | Tagged: , , , , | read on

Argentinians souring on Maradona

A humiliating loss to Brazil on home soil has Argentina, coached by former playing legend Diego Maradona, in danger of the unthinkable — missing out on the 2010 World Cup.

Posted at 1:49 pm on September 8, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: issues | Tagged: , , , , | read on