Blogs Posts in Women Sports category; 218 blog posts

Which is the best university for sport?

If you are sports-mad and want to pursue competitive sport as an undergraduate, then Loughborough is the university for you. It is ranked No 1 by the British Universities Sports Association (Busa), ahead of Bath (second) and Birmingham (thi [...]

Posted On : Jun, 13 2008 | Comments : 0

French Open Roland Garros 2008 Women's Second Round Bettings...

Much like the men, the women have also fallen behind on their 2008 French Open Roland Garros schedule, due to incrementing precipitation in the City of Light’s forecast. At this point, some matches have already moved on to the third r [...]

Posted On : May, 29 2008 | Comments : 0

Henin's star will be missed

Top-level tennis always seemed like so much hard work for Justine Henin, the little David who slew countless Lady Goliaths in an illustrious career she chose to end on Wednesday, at age 25. The Belgian will not go for a fourth consecutive [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

U.S. topples Canada to win world women's hockey crown

Canada's reign as the world's ice queens has come to a disappointing end. Canada fell 4-3 to the United States on Saturday in the gold-medal showdown at the IIHF world women's hockey championship in Harbin, China, sending the defending cha [...]

Posted On : Apr, 14 2008 | Comments : 0

Florence Griffith Joyner

Florence Griffith Joyner was not alone among athletes in burning herself into public memory. But she was alone in her sport. In 1988 she burst into the spotlight, having transformed herself from the workaday sprinter who had won silve [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2008 | Comments : 0

LSU women Sweet 16 bound

LSU did a victory lap Monday night, but it's not going to Omaha, Neb., for the College World Series. The LSU women are New Orleans bound for the third and fourth rounds of the NCAA Tournament after overpowering a pesky, Marist team 68-49 a [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

Nadia Comaneci

Nobody was ready for the standards that would be set by 14-year-old Nadia Comaneci of Romania at the 1976 Olympics, least of all th [...]

Posted On : Mar, 18 2008 | Comments : 0

SA women battle chauvinism

South African crane operator Zoliswa Gila rises high above the pervasive chauvinistic view that her job should be reserved for members of the male sex. "Most people think I am crazy to do the job I am doing saying it's only for men,& [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2008 | Comments : 0

Bonnie Blair- Ice Skating

Her goals were simple. All she ever wanted out of skating, Bonnie Blair once said, was to [...]

Posted On : Feb, 26 2008 | Comments : 0

Martina Navratilova

Just as the NBA had Bird and Magic, as boxing had Ali and Frazier [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2008 | Comments : 0

Let women make own health choices

Thirty-five years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on abortion in Roe vs. Wade. The court's decision drastically improved health outcomes for women by making abortion safe and legal. Last year, a very diff [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2008 | Comments : 0

Women's CWC qualifiers moved to SA

The rescheduling of the Pakistan general election has forced organisers of the women's World Cup qualifying tournament to move next month's event to South Africa, the International Cricket Council said on Tuesday. The February 18-24 eight [...]

Posted On : Jan, 09 2008 | Comments : 0

Billi Jean King

Never mind the 39 Grand Slam titles, 695 match victories or the redoubtable career that lasted more than two decades. Mention Billie Jean King's name and the images first conjured are not of a tennis champion. Instead, King's legacy is that [...]

Posted On : Jan, 01 2008 | Comments : 0

Briefs | USC women beat Florida State for NCAA soccer title

USC earns first NCAA College Cup title: Marihelen Tomer and Janessa Currier scored as USC beat Florida State 2-0 Sunday in the final of the NCAA Women's College Cup in College Station, Texas.Ali Khosroshahin made history. He is the first wo [...]