Watch this interview with a local reporter (Jared Lloyd/Desert News) who covered this match. He
points out that the "refs allowed" for a "physical game" - and offers a well informed perspective
on the tone of the game (explaining New Mexico's use of a physical style of play to break up BYU's
movement up and down the field).
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Elizabeth Lambert's demolition job on BYU's strikeforce is in heavy rotation on the intertubes
today:
ESPN's coverage of the event appears to be pretty evenhanded, focusing on "Julie Foudy, tell us in
your vast, infinite wisdom: how the fuck wasn't Lambert sent off?" Overall, not too different from
ESPN's usual coverage of sports with a niche following - wait until something bizarre like this
happens and put it in rotation.
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When confronted with the accusation that she'd threatened to kill the line judge, echoing John
McEnroe's mantra of complaint, Serena Williams looked at the officials and asked "Are you
serious?"
Williams had lost her cool, that much is indisputable. This happens to many of the best athletes
when things aren't going as they'd hoped and planned.
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OK. I know a lot of you read that headline and either rolled your eyes, or muttered "dream on,
sister."
I've been involved in a discussion on Big Soccer about Dan Loney's article, "Endless Summer". He
opens with a reference to my post about the Galaxy/Barça game. Some Big Soccer readers have been
baffled by my overtly political (feminist, Marxist) approach to the game (expressed in comments
about Loney's article).
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Gender equality yet to reach Russia, clearly "If my wife's car drive into group of gypsies, will
there be any damage to car? Very nice!" God love Andrey Arshavin and his old-school, Borat-esque
sexism. In an interview with the Daily...
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I am too upset to write about this right now, but want to share this story about the rape and
murder of Eudy Simelane, a much admired South African National Team player and lesbian feminist
activist:br /br /a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/12/eudy-simelane-corrective-rape-south-africa"Rape
and Killed for being a Lesbian: South Africa Ignores 'Corrective' Attacks/abr /br /She was killed
last year, her murderers have just been sentenced.
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Sat absent mindedly at my computer yesterday I was vaguely scanning the stories scrolling past on
my RSS Feed reader on my desktop. One went past declaring the appointment of a female manager on a
temporary basis at non-league Fisher Athletic, and for some reason, I struggled to react with the
kind of shock that [.
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A popular youtube video poking fun at women playing basketball is in my view little more than a
modern day incarnation of old-fashioned minstrelsy. Those lightly "comic" routines were
once found funny by racist audiences who enjoyed having their attitudes confirmed in entertaining
spectacles that should turn the stomach.
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Way back in December, I posted an article about Hollywood United's "sister" team,
Hollywood United Girls Soccer. My read on them was pretty strong, and recently some members of the
team have written in with their perspectives. The result has been a really interesting conversation
about the use of "sexy" images of women to sell women's football (e.
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I put "sister" in scare quotes, because I can hardly imagine anyone with a lot of respect and love
for their sister coming up with an idea like Hollywood United Girls Soccer - HUGS. When I heard
that Hollywood United - a team of Hollywood musicians, actors, and retired soccer players - many of
the latter with international caps - had a sister team, I thought "cool!
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