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Cheryl Haworth is a young woman with a big dream: to be the strongest woman in the world. As the 300-pound U.S. Olympic weightlifter prepared for Beijing 2008, she struggled with injury, confidence, and her place in a world where larger women are not readily accepted. Documentary film pPremieres July 2012 on PBS.

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[Update] Female Racers Rev up for Indy 500 Memorial Day Weekend

5/26/12 2:58pm by @jschonb
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Indy 500 racer Katherine Legge via Zumapress

The Indianapolis 500 may be in Danica Patrick's rear view mirror, but the race will still take place this Sunday,  just as it has every Memorial Day weekend for nearly 100 years.  Once the green flag drops, a 33- car field will accelerate to more than 200 mph and continue at a blistering speed around the track for 500 miles.  Read more >

A Crisis of Faith: Gender-Neutral Parenting in a Gender-Obsessed World

5/25/12 2:33pm by bhanvoyage
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Teen boy in pink via Shutterstock

Driving down a rural road, tears welling in my eyes, my voice scaling octaves and my hands banging the steering wheel as the breakdown I never saw coming comes barreling toward me like a freight train.I was on my way to Kohl's.  To buy running shoes.Track shoes, to be exact, for my son.  The same son we drove hundreds of miles to Kansas for the national USATF meet last year.  Shoes that same son wasn't sure he wanted.  Read more >

What's Tougher Than Training for the Olympics? Staying a Virgin

5/23/12 3:45pm by @jschonb
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Hurdler Lolo Jones

American hurdler Lolo Jones is no stranger to the media. The gorge athlete with rocking abs has appeared on plenty of magazine covers and was even photographed naked for ESPN's The Body Issue. But none of the media exposure is anything compared to the firestorm surrounding Jones' pronouncement this week that she is a virgin.  Read more >

Four Die on Everest -World's Greatest Challenge or Highest Graveyard?

5/22/12 6:01pm by @jschonb
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Mount Everest via Zumapress.com

A day after 73 year-old Tamae Watanabe became the oldest woman to summit Mount Everest — the mountain took the lives of four other climbers.  Read more >

Bikini Hockey League: Because The World Needs Yet Another Bikini Sport

5/21/12 9:12am by Caitlin Constantine
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Bikinis via Flickr

Plans are in the works for yet another bikini sports league – this time, a hockey league.Yes, you read that correctly. A bikini hockey league. Some enterprising man in Oklahoma has decided to launch a bikini hockey league. In Oklahoma. And not only that, he’s trying to pitch a reality television show around the nascent league. Because if there is one thing the world needs more than a bikini sports league, it’s another reality television show.  Read more >

I'll Have Another Has Another - Wins 137th Preakness by a Nose

5/19/12 4:40pm by @jschonb
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Preakness winner I'll Have Another via Zumapress.com

For the second straight race, the Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another beat Bodemeister in the final moments, winning the Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Creative Cause finished third making it an all-California trifecta. The winner paid $8.40 on a $2.00 bet.  Read more >

Should Heading in Soccer be Banned?

5/17/12 5:47pm by Meredith O'Brien
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Soccer header by zachstern via Flickr

(Editor's Note: When I was a kid, if you were playing a contact sport and your head got whacked, as soon as the stars disappeared you were back in the game. Lately, however, the news has been filled with cautionary concussion stories. And it's not just football players whose noggins get knocked around. Female soccer players are right behind them, suffering from a variety of long-term effects including nausea, vision and balance problems, headaches and an inability to concentrate. When is it time to come out of the game? And what can parents and coaches do to minimize the risks?  Read more

Calif. Lawmaker Bashes Title IX in Front of Soccer Star Brandi Chastain

5/16/12 8:38pm by @jschonb
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Title IX description via Flickr

The 40th anniversary of Title IX, the federal law requiring gender equality in interscholastic athletics, has received considerable national coverage the past month or so. But when the California Assembly passed a measure in Sacramento on Monday recognizing the upcoming  anniversary, the event generated a bit of controversy.  Read more >

Teen Golf Pro Scores Prom Date On FB & Style Tips on Pinterest

5/15/12 11:40am by amorency
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Lexi's Prom

Spending hours every day on the driving range and the rest of your time traveling the world with the LPGA doesn't leave a girl a lot of time to score a prom date. Seventeen-year-old Lexi Thompson took to the web, posting a video on her Facebook page last month asking for a date to take her to the prom on May 18. This is her story.  Read more >

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

5/14/12 11:24am by playdatecrashers
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Take me out to the ballgame

Last week, my husband and I took our 3.5 year old, Miles, to his first ever minor league baseball game, to see the Lexington Legends in nearby Lexington, KY.  It was a proud day for my husband, one of his first experiences sharing a sporting event with one of his sons.  I'm not going to pretend to understand the magic that such things hold for a father and son, but I know enough to understand it was important.  Read more >