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Title IX

Great Hera!

Nike Celebrates Title IX by Reminding Us That It Wasn’t Easy For Women Who Just Wanted to “Play Ball” [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 1:12 pm, June 25th, 2012

To celebrate Title IX’s 40th anniversary, Nike has put together this incredibly touching ad featuring several accomplished female athletes — Joan Benoit Samuelson, winner of the first-ever Olympic gold medal for women’s marathon in 1984, women’s basketball legend Lisa Leslie, Marlen Esparza, Olympic boxer, and WNBA player Diana Taurasi — talking about their journeys to the top of their respective games. They get a little assist by some young girls suiting up for their own athletic journeys. Okay, they’re probably actors, and that’s why their lip-sync skills are so good. But you can bet they won’t come out of this gig thinking they can’t play ball — and win.

(via Jezebel)

Previously in Women’s Sports

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Alan Turing Memorial Decorated for Pride

by Susana Polo | 5:31 pm, June 24th, 2012

This weekend doesn’t just mark Pride. It’s also the birthday of Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician who cracked the Enigma code, handing the Allies one of their greatest achievements of World War II, and upon whose logical leaps the basic foundations of modern computer science were laid. Turing also died at the age of 41, from what is commonly thought to be suicide, after being convicted of “indecency” (i.e., being gay) and sentenced to chemical castration. While his memorial certainly brings melancholy thoughts to mind, the way it was decorated this weekend takes us right back to hopeful ones. Happy Pride, everyone! (Boing Boing)

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