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I’m A March Madness Widow

YourTango.comMarch 13, 2012 //

We had just sat down to breakfast at a quaint Connecticut inn last Monday morning, during a romantic midwinter getaway.

The fireplace was roaring. Calming new age music piped softly, and our innkeeper was busy preparing us a small feast. Perfect, I thought. It was precisely the kind of escape I’d imagined when we planned the trip weeks ago. Jon turned to me and smiled. “Can you hand me the sports section?” he asked.

I suppose I should have expected this: It is mid-March, the time when many a man’s fantasy turns to college hoops. In the coming weeks, I knew from experience, there would be brackets to fill out and seemingly endless games to watch with hawk-like vigor. But that wasn’t all. Read more…

Today’s Lady News: Dennis Rodman Launching Topless Women’s Basketball Team

Jessica WakemanJanuary 3, 2012 //
  • Dennis Rodman says he’s launching a “topless women’s basketball team” for the Headquarter’s Gentlemen’s Club in New York. “You don’t have to have too much experience,” Rodman told the New York Post, because I guess watching women playing sports is only entertaining when they’re physically appealing to the male gaze? While I generally don’t care if women want to pose nude/work in strip clubs/perform sex word, I find the combination of toplessness with a field (sports) where women are struggling to get respect particularly repulsive here. [New York Post]
  • As of January 1, girls ages 17 and younger in New Hampshire must notify a parent or guardian at least 48 hours before they have an abortion. NH’s governor vetoed the law, but his veto was overridden. [Union Leader]
  • An abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida, burned to the ground in a fire on Sunday. Investigators say American Family Planning (formerly known as The Ladies Center and Community Healthcare) has been the site of past violence. The clinic was bombed in 1984 and in 1994, a doctor and clinic escort were both murdered by extremists. [New York Times]
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Today’s Lady News: Texas A&M Wins Women’s NCAA Championship

Jessica WakemanApril 7, 2011 //
  • Texas A&M beat out Notre Dame for the women’s NCAA basketball championship on Tuesday, the team’s first national title. Congratulations! If someone who knows/cares about sports can explain to me the significance of this, I would appreciate it. [ESPN, Houston Chronicle]
  • Apparently, Tina Fey’s pregnancy presents a “feminist dilemma”? [Salon]
  • Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) was named chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, prompting a colleague, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), to praise her good qualities on C-SPAN but also suggest the position was “going to strain her.” Some wonder whether Rep. McDermott may have made the same comment if a male representative had been named. [Politico]

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And They Say Ladies Can’t Dunk

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comMarch 21, 2011 //

March Madness is in full swing (Go Duke!), and I hope you’ve been watching both the men and women play. To get you in the spirit, here is an amazing team photo of a women’s basketball team from the year 1902. Kind of makes you glad the WNBA opted for shorts, doesn’t it? [Buzzfeed] Keep reading »

Ryan Gosling And Michelle Williams Have Slam-Dunk Sex

Julie GersteinDecember 9, 2010 //

“I felt like Scottie Pippin and she was Michael Jordan. Every time I gave her the ball, she just flew through the air and she slam-dunked it.”

—Ryan Gosling on his sexy scenes with Michelle Williams in “Blue Valentine.” We do love a sports/sex metaphor. [Us Weekly] Keep reading »

Poll: Do You Give A Crap About LeBron James?

Amelia McDonell-ParryJuly 9, 2010 //

Do You Care Where LeBron James Plays?

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Betty White Wants LeBron James To Stay In Cleveland

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comJuly 6, 2010 //


As the Knicks, Nets, Bulls and others court (pun!) basketball star LeBron James, Betty White and her co-stars in the show “Hot In Cleveland” want him to stay a Cavalier. If anyone can make him stay in Cleveland, Betty can. [EW] Keep reading »

The Lakers Win The NBA Title, Hollywood Is Happy

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comJune 18, 2010 //

If you happen to need a favor from an A-, B-, or C-Lister in Hollywood, today would probably be a very good day to ask for it. Last night was the seventh and final game in the NBA Finals, with the Lakers taking on their rivals, the Boston Celtics, in the tied series. And after coming from behind in the fourth quarter, they eeked out a lead and won the game 83-79 to become the NBA Champions. Ron Artest, who scored 20 points in the game, gave our favorite post-game interview of all time, saying, “I definitely want to thank my doctors. My psychiatrist, she really helped me relax a lot.” [NYMag.com]

So what do other stars and famous folk have to say about the victory? Find out, after the jump. Keep reading »

Frisky Rant: Dispatches From A Die-Hard Duke Fan

Kate Torgovnick/Kate-Book.comApril 6, 2010 //

If you see me today, you’ll notice that I look a tad bit beaten down. This is partly because I am sick. But it is also because last night’s NCAA championship game was, in a word, stressful. For two hours, the Duke University Blue Devils battled it out with the Butler Bulldogs. Duke was the #1 seed, the team overdetermined to win it all. Butler, however, was hot off a 25-game winning streak and amped after pulling off some stunning upsets in the tournament. The fact that their campus was less than five miles from the arena where the championship game was held only seemed to light their fire even more. While Duke kept eeking out small leads throughout the game, they were clearly thrown off their game and the momentum clearly seemed to be on Butler’s side. Until the last moment, as Butler’s final shot ricocheted off the rim and Duke won by a mere two points, the game was a true nail biter. Seriously, yesterday afternoon, my nails were long. Now they are gross nubs.

See, I am a huge, colossal, royal-blue loving, devil horn-wearing Duke fan. Keep reading »

Obama Doesn’t Play HORSE, He Plays POTUS. Obvi!

Jessica WakemanApril 5, 2010 //

Usually I couldn’t give two figs about a basketball game … but this weekend, President Obama was on TV playing “HORSE” on the White House courts with CBS Sports’ Clark Kellogg. (They didn’t call it “HORSE,” though; they called it “POTUS”!) They chitchat about the Final Four tournament and Obama plugs his wife’s Let’s Move! program, too.

Cute video. Listening to the President smack-talk is pretty funny. But next time, lose the button-down shirt and tie on the court, ‘kay? [YouTube] Keep reading »

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