On Tuesday in class, xoxogossipgirl, EyesWideShut, and StoryPaws drew attention to local, national and global stories that reflect what’s happening right now in sports, economics, and society. We discussed James Madison University’s women’s basketball team, rising unemployment rates among Black women nationally, the U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team, and Swedish skiier Elis Lundholm, the first […]
Read More NEWSROOM 2/24Growing up in the Northeast, it is safe to say that my family was a hockey family. We would spend our evenings flicking through NHL games and keeping up with the scores and the standings. Our favorite hockey, though, was the Winter Olympics. As a matter of fact, one of my favorite memories of hockey […]
Read More Everything you need to know about the PWHLPicture this. It is November 2019 and Boston Pride, an LGBTQ+ hockey team, takes to New York City to play in a game against the New York City Gay Hockey Association. Now the story really begins when Greg Sargent, Boston Pride’s team president, began to chat with a member of the New York team, Aidan […]
Read More A place in the gameFew things get me more excited than talking about sports. When the Winter Olympics come around my television stays on 24/7. One sport has always fascinated me: Women’s Ice Hockey. There are only three occasions in which women’s hockey is nationally or internationally televised. One being the Olympics every four years, two being the NCAA […]
Read More Just a Friendly Reminder…Women’s Sports Don’t Disappear After the Olympics