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The Dream Lives On for Diana Nyad (Video)
By Carla Baranauckas The marathon swimmer Diana Nyad may have ended her swim feeling she still had something to prove. But to most of us, she has already proved more than enough.
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After a Cruel Diagnosis, Pat Summitt Teaches Another Lesson in How to Live
By Carla Baranauckas Now, when she should be riding high on the joy of seeing what she has built, Coach Pat Summitt has received a diagnosis of early onset dementia, Alzheimer's type.
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That’s Why the Lady Is an Ump
By Deborah Harkins Perry Barber has called more baseball games during her 32-year career than any other woman umpire, and more than a lot of men, too. She means to continue umping as long as her...
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The Day after The Derby- I’ll Have Another
By Laura Baudo Sillerman In the face of what is wrong with thoroughbred racing, the sight of a long shot-- ridden by a rookie, named for a ritual between husband and wife-- closing in on and beating a...
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The Lure of Falconry
He sits his horse naturally, easily, in what by now I know is a wooden saddle atop the colorful Kyrgyz-designed felt blanket. As he nears, I note that he carries something on his left arm; it is a huge...
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Video Pick: How Title IX Impacted the 20th Century’s Greatest Female Athlete
Back in the bad old days, as Perry Barber's post on Title IX notes, girls and women were assumed to be too frail for (or uninterested in) strenuous sports. Long-distance running? "Very questionable . ....
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The Lure of Falconry (Part Two)
At the Second International Festival of Falconry in Berkshire, England, local attendees mixed with falconers in native dress. There were Arabian horses, exotic hunting dogs such as Salukis, British...
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First Ladies of the Olympics
While we wait to see which women will make and break records in this year’s London Games, we take a look back at five First Ladies of the Olympics—groundbreaking women who made incredible firsts for...
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The Sporting Life, Then and Now
As a child and a young woman I'd competed in individual sports: tennis, ice skating, triathlons. At age 40 I joined the New Canaan Mother Puckers, a women’s ice hockey team. I knew I'd never be a star,...
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Derby Day: Rosie Runs For The Roses
By Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. The Kentucky Derby is always the first Saturday of May. I know it is a horse race, but today I was only interested in the filly from New Jersey named Rosie. That would...
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Diana Nyad: A Force of Nature
By Emily Kelting One small stumble into the sand for Diana was like one giant leap for female athletes of any age who dare to dream big and work relentlessly toward a goal.
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At 40, Christie Rampone is Oldest Women’s Soccer Player in a World Cup Final
Last month, at age 39, Christie Rampone became the oldest player to appear in a World Cup game, when the United States defeated Nigeria, 1-0. She had her 40th birthday on June 24 and became the oldest...
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Caitlyn Jenner’s ESPY Speech Provides a Lesson in Acceptance
By Pat Kinney The acceptance speech by Caitlyn Jenner, the transgender woman who most of us first came to know as Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner, will be remembered for what she taught us...
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That’s Why the Lady Is an Ump
By Deborah Harkins Perry Barber has called more baseball games during her 32-year career than any other woman umpire, and more than a lot of men, too. She means to continue umping as long as her...
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Pat Summitt: Coach Who Made a Difference in Many Ways
Her impact on individuals was so significant that when word came recently of her rapidly failing health, friends and former players gathered in Knoxville, Tenn., to be by her side and the hashtag...
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At 52, Equestrian Beezie Madden Is Competing in Her 4th Olympics (In the News)
The oldest woman on Team USA has been riding horses since she was 4 years old.
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The Wednesday Five: Champion Women
This week, as we continue to celebrate the global trailblazing women making and breaking records at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we've curated five groundbreaking TED Talks...
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Cyclist Kristin Armstrong Shows She’s Not Too Old for Olympic Gold (In the News)
"You can set a goal and you can go accomplish anything you want. It doesn’t matter your age; it doesn’t matter where you’re from."
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Women Athletes — and What They Wear?
Over the course of the past two weeks at the Olympic Games in Rio, the division in the way our global media culture reports on men and women athletes has received both praise and critique. When it...
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Christine Brennan and Sally Jenkins Put the Ryan Lochte Scandal Into...
Some of the best commentary on this sorry episode — the behavior of our swimmers from the United States, led by Ryan Lochte, who apparently lied about an encounter with security guards at a gas station...
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