After much hemming and hawing, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince has agreed to allow women from the Middle Eastern kingdom to compete in the 2012 London Olympics. And it only took several decades, countless accommodations, and global pressure on the International Olympic Committee!

Mo Isom is currently trying out to play kicker for Louisiana State University. If she succeeds, she'll be the first woman to play college football since 2003 — and possibly the first ever to get any respect.

International Olympic Committee rules require that countries allow both men and women to compete as a prerequisite for their participation in the Olympic Games. Saudia Arabia, a country that has never sent a female athlete to the games, has been warned of this, promised to correct the situation, and then sort of did…

The US Women's Olympic soccer team was saved from a shooting in the Vancouver hotel where they were staying by a well-timed yoga session. Unfortunately, the shooting interfered with the team's plans to go to Starbucks. Can't win 'em all.

For the first time in the history of the games, Saudi Arabia is allowing women to compete on their country's Olympic team during the 2012 summer games in London. We are truly making great strides. Wait, Saudi Arabia only did it because the International Olympic Committee threatened to bar them from the London Olympics…

An investigation into the conduct of US Gymnastics coach Don Peters has concluded that his sexual misconduct with teenage gymnasts in the 1980's warrants a lifetime ban from the sport. He's also being removed from the US Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

In 1961, Julia Chase-Brand was a 19-year-old sophomore at Smith College when she did the unthinkable: register to run a 4.75 mile road race alongside men. She was met with derision, condescension, and paternal concern from the public. Running for longer than half a mile, after all, would be detrimental to her…

Yesterday, New York celebrated female athletes at the 32nd Annual Salute to Women in Sports. Most of the ladies brought their A-game. But before we get to the clothes, let me confess something. In high school, I once walked forty minutes to get on a bus to a town thirty miles away because I was so terrified of playing…

A Chicago-area woman commemorated her 39th week of pregnancy by running and walking the Chicago marathon yesterday. And then giving birth.

In 2003, Britain's Paula Radcliffe finished the London Marathon in 2 hours, 15 minutes, and 25 seconds, the fastest time ever registered by a woman running the 26.2 mile race. Radcliffe's performance that day has been hailed as one of the greatest individual performances in the history of sports, but as of January 1…

Serena Williams isn't too happy that she had to start her U.S. Open match at 10:30 PM last night. But the reason for her objection is a little surprising.

The North Korean women's national soccer team has been banned from competition in the 2015 Women's World Cup after five members of the team tested positive for performance enhancing drugs derived from the musk hormones of deer. Musk is a smelly brownish secretion that male deer rub all over trees and other inanimate…

Have you been paying attention to the Women's World Cup? Hope you have a cardiologist on speed dial, because this entire tournament has been a nerve (and heart) destroyer. Here are some highlights from today's seesaw match between the US and Japan.

Boston, Feb 5: Pole vaulter Jenn Suhr clears the bar during the Boston Indoors Athletics meet. Suhr won the event. (Image via AP)

Ruhpolding, Germany, January 16: Norway's Tora Berger, left, shoots next to Germany's Andrea Henkel during the women's 10 kilometers pursuit race at the Biathlon World Cup competition.

Melbourne, Jan. 16: Maria Sharapova's hottest look is GRAY. It has everything: sheer paneling, silk flowers, confusingly tented striped shorts, oversized belt buckles... Image via Getty.

Congratulations are in order for the University of Connecticut women's basketball team, who just minutes ago won their 88th straight game, tying the NCAA record for consecutive wins. Does the game of being awesome have a mercy rule?

Kansas City, December 18: Penn State players celebrate after winning the second set of their final match against California of the in the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship. Image via AP

A few weeks ago, I unloaded about female "fitness" and how our bodies' function as tools has gotten lost in a quest to be thin. Readers responded with their own stories, and what awesome stories they are.