Last night in New York, athletes rubbed elbows at the 33rd Annual Salute To Women In Sports Gala. If you miss some of the faces you got to know during the Olympics, fret not: Rowers, gymnasts, swimmers, track stars — the gang's all here!
Guess Who's 40 And Aging Gracefully: Happy Birthday, Title IX!
One could argue that it started with Little League. In 1950, a 12-year-old girl named Kathryn Johnston asked her mother to cut off her braids, adopted the nickname "Tubby" and pretended to be a boy in order to go out for the Corning King's Dairy team in upstate New York. She made the cut, and eventually confessed to her…
Now Here's An Event: Women In Sports Awards!
The 30th Annual Salute To Women In Sports Awards, at NYC's Waldorf-Astoria, was an uncommon red carpet: lots of awesome ladies, yes, but also some curious duds and, yes, some unusually comfy shoes.
Five-Year-Old "Eating Herself To Death"; Gay Couple's Announcement Nixed…
Doctors in India fear that Suman Khatun, a five-year-old girl who weighs 168 pounds — at three and half feet tall — is eating herself to death.
Billie Jean King On "Grunting"; Centre Court Comeliness
Billie Jean King has weighed in on two tennis controversies, saying that she doesn't consider "grunting" a form of cheating and that at Wimbledon, "appearances on Centre Court should be based on accomplishments not looks." [NYTimes]
The Sony Ericsson Championships, the season-ending event of the Women's Tennis Association, is being held in the Middle East for the first time this week. Billie Jean King, who helped found the WTA Tour, says that she believes by holding the event in Doha, Qatar, tennis can help bring change to a region where women's…
Athletes usually get offered lucrative endorsement deals at the height of their careers, but tennis legend Billie Jean King, 64, is getting some of her biggest deals today. She stars in a string of new TV commercials for companies including Geico, NutriSystem and Merrill Lynch. In an interview with The Wall Street…
