March Madness is a spectacle every year—people from all different levels of sports knowledge come together to fill out brackets and care intensely about college basketball for a few weeks. This year, the tournaments are being held in anti-COVID-19 bubbles, with the Men’s tournament taking place in Indianapolis and the Women’s tournament in San Antonio.… Read more A Look at March Madness Discrepancies
The pay, publicity, and attention owed to women’s sports in comparison to men’s sports has been a hotly contested debate for decades now, but particularly so over the last five years. Proponents of unequal pay in many sports have raised a number of comparison arguments, including level of competition, amount of work put into competition,… Read more Sexism at the Highest Level: What’s the Point of Professional/Collegiate Sports?
There has been a recent surge in a number of state legislatures to limit or even ban transgender women from participating in school sports. In late January of 2021, according to The Texas Tribune, lawmakers in Texas filed legislation that would prevent transgender girls and women from participating on single-sex sports teams that align with… Read more Ensuring Trans Women’s Rights in Sports
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