Wendy Parker

(This is the second in a series of posts this week about the World Cup, which kicks off June 12 in Brazil. Mo…

(This is the first in a series of posts this week about the World Cup, which kicks off June 12 in Brazil.) FI…

A few days before the United States played Germany in the 2002 World Cup quarterfinals, some of us in the Ame…

I really don't want to revisit this in June, but a couple of recent, widely-distributed pieces by mainstream …

The problem with studies like these is that the conclusions are based only on a facile collection of statisti…

This is a self-published e-book (available on Amazon.com) that is an extension of my 2011 blog series, Women'…

On the agenda of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association convention at the Women's Final Four later this w…

One of the most heralded freshmen in the nation rocked her sport this week with the news that she's transferr…

Several months after the Val Ackerman white paper sprung several influential corners of the women's college b…

What’s going to sell women’s sports in the long haul will not be an incessant appeal to virtue but rather to …

This series, published in 2011, examines nearly four decades of the women’s sports movement, and assesses the…

In all the fulminating over violence, concussions, brain damage, suicides, lawsuits, bloodlust, carnage and b…

The feel-good story of Michael Sam lost some of its sheen last week when Oprah Winfrey announced the producti…

The tributes for Naismith Hall of Famer Jack Ramsay upon his death at the start of the week were moving and p…

This week I'm devoting this blog to a three-part retrospective on Billie Jean King, who defeated Bobby Riggs …

This week I'm devoting this blog to a three-part retrospective on Billie Jean King, who defeated Bobby Riggs …

This week I'm devoting this blog to a three-part retrospective on Billie Jean King, who defeated Bobby Riggs …

I don't want to rain on a parade. I really don't, even though the local forecast does call for showers as my …

The future of Julie Hermann as the Rutgers athletic director - specifically, if she is to have a future at th…

Some good news for sports museums, which were challenged for visitors and revenues even before the recession:…

In The New York Times on Sunday, Lisa Mickey penned a fine tribute to the golfing writer and journalist Rhond…

I love baseball. I love poetry. But I hate baseball poetry. Or, more precisely, I absolutely despise the pret…

Before the winter set in, Alex Belth penned this marvelous tribute to his late father and how "his remaining …

It's mid-to-late February. The Super Bowl is over, conference play in college basketball is heating up, and p…