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is it okay for athletes to diet and lose weight drastically for sports?

guest — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:25:31 GMT

I am doing my senior project on eating disorders and how they can be caused by competitive sports. I was just wondering if people could post thoughts, opinions, and concerns about the topic. Whether or not you think it's okay for athletes to lose weight? If you have ever gotten pressure from coaches or teammates to lose weight? If you have ever had an eating disorder that was caused by competitive sports. Anything that relates to this topic that can give me more insight on this issue. Thank you

35 Years Ago This Week

guest — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:21:55 GMT

Thirty-five years ago this week Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in the historic "Battle of the Sexes."

I wanted to give a heads up to anyone who may be interested: there is a special section in USA TODAY that serves as a celebration of the cultural evolution that was triggered by the match and takes a deeper look into where women's sports is now--including special features on King, Pat Summitt, Nancy Lopez and others.

ABUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRIVACY VIOLATIONS

guest — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:45:32 GMT

ABUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRIVACY VIOLATIONS:

BEWARE of racially intolerant white canadian cops and security and their henchmen who claim to be despots; following parasitically in the footsteps of their american counterparts, and

wilfully engage in their racial profiling of non-whites, in racial harassment of non-whites, and in racially dehumanizing attempts to racially harass non-whites through

intimidating physically, mentally, and spiritually; portraying their racial hatred of non-whites through causing wilfull and dehumanizing disturbance to non-whites through using

illegal wall-see-through technologies and audio-bugs on non-whites' homes; through listening and watching through the walls of non-whites' rented and owned homes, through

their internet and private telephones, and through using tempest technology to latch on as parasites onto others' computers' hard-drives as well amounting to illegal plagiarism and

privacy violations. The perpetuators of these evil deeds do this from their cars using illegal equipment slyly given to them by the unworthy cops, and then accelerating their

cars loudly and ntimidatingly near non-whites' homes and driving intimidatingly in presence of non-whites on streets, making threatening u-turns, driving intimidatingly right up and

over sidewalks when a non-white is on the sidewalk, and throwing their ugly bullying weight around, in their shameless acts of cowardice. They attempt to judge immigrants through see

through wall technological devices in the name of post 911, and use it to harass immigrants living their daily lives. Using these devices, living, breathing, eating, sleeping,

toilet, household chores, sexual activities, masturbation and body movements of female and male immigrants is prohibited in the name of keeping a strict watch on the movements of

immigrants post 911, that is illegal harassment and racism, the exposure of truths that the wrongdoers cannot bear. For every body movement of immigrants inside their owned or rented

homes or apartments, neighborhood nonsense and harassment prevails violating immigrants privacy and human rights; whereas the their bony assed lickers, are given these illegal

equipments through connivance of cops and their police state who cannot bear immigrants but only want the money, brains of immigrants and other countries. It is all done slyly,

supposedly smartly, either loudly or silently; however, they cannot fool all the people all the time. SHAME on these anti-christ cops who wail their sirens abusively everytime non-white females

and males take showers, move and talk inside their rented and owned homes in daily routine living, in addition to having their henchmen and henchwomen, and often, using their

non-white gutless henchmen and henchwomen in cars, transport, shopping centers, neighborhoods, etc, to commit these ugly harassing racially profiling deeds at all times

day and night. Using non-whites to engage in racial harassment of other non-whites is an obnoxiously evil sinister humanely disgraceful intelligent move of the whites well-known

for their ugly divide and rule tactics through their non-white henchmen and henchwomen. The white cops and their racial stooges should be debarred from going to churches for their

evil deeds.

It's a SHAMEFUL disgrace when the so called protectors of law turn into abusers of law themselves and throw the weight of their uniforms and law around as cowards disturbing the

peace in their attempt to perpetuate their jobs and abuse of power. Racially intolerant white cops should be strippted of their uniforms and jobs and be debarred from all

religious shrines. The white christians bloatedness has reached its evil peak and is on the downfall at equally great speed corresponding to their twisting the word in their favor

and portraying themselves in good light and non-whites in bad light. While they thrive in their earthly power, when the forces of nature get unleashed on them, they shall be

debarred from the book of life. So, they and their henchmen and henchwomen, appear to be very law respecting on the outside; however, they network cowardly to commit sly acts of

provocation to non-whites all the time, which is supposed to be legally acceptable. Is watching through walls of non-whites homes, bugging their homes, working in networking

syndicates against them, committing human rights and privacy violations against them, supposedly lawful for the whites? Who makes those laws that favor only the whites? The law

itself has racism in its clauses. The ugly inner dirt of the perpetuators of these evil deeds of racism do not deserve to step into religious institutions for their ugly deeds -

such as, if you ain't white, you ain't right? Oh! Really? Nicely dressed, beautiful people, magnificient concrete jungles, clean roads and lawns, sweet polite talkers on the outside,

full of ugly stench in their souls, that is the cause of these racist policies that are outrightly biased against non-whites. What a shame!

Most of these ugly acts of dehumanizing racial profiling depict the cowardice of the doers of these deeds in the real sense, and are done at the behind the scenes insistence of the

racially intolerant white cops through their frontline stooges. However, without physical evidence, the white cops, security, societies, and their henchmen and henchwomen are

laughing sinisterly at their heinous deeds and the legal system seems to support this evil through its inability to take action without physical evidence. Their racial profiling

penetrates public transport systems, shops and stores to do all they can to make the non-whites feel unwelcome in their dehumanizing acts of racial profiling against non-whites

and those who don't conform to their nonsense. The white cops, security, and white communities use their henchmen and henchwomen who do just as they are told and from behind

the safety cushion of their oil-guzzling, pollution creating, often dark-glassed vehicles to intimidate and harass non-whites in obnoxious racial profiling that reflects the

immoral, despotic, and cowardly behaviour of racially intolerant white cops, security, communities and their dumb henchmen and henchwomen who do just as they are told, fuelled as

they are in their racial frenzy, thanks to the racially manipulative corporate controlled media. The whites are the biggest criminals and terrorists themselves twisting the word of

God to portray nonwhites in bad light and themselves in good light. The whole of North America is in heavy debt; however, their media fools them and the world, and they go as

merceneries to other countries through their evil colonial tactics of wars, business, and infiltration, to screw the world of its resources, to invite immigrants and then to screw

them of their money and happiness through racial profiling, and their culture teaches them to screw other cultures, look down on other cultures, and to teach other cultures that all

cultures are of downtroddens and only North American culture is the right culture! Wow! Nothing more could be farther than truth. This reflects the outright blasphemy and racial

obnoxiousness of the North American culture itself! Volunteers are welcome to circulate this information to all they know to put an end to this abuse and violations of human rights committed by immorally misbehaved white cops,

security, white communities, public transports, shops, stores, etc, and their dumb henchmen and henchwomen who do just as they are told in their racial frenzy.

Save this information on your computers before any cowards remove it from the websites. Racism is immoral and dehumanizing behaviour that reflects the "incapable to perform

humanely" quality of those who are racist and are being watched from God's court above in ways they cannot be expected to be capable to perceive yet.

It's a shame when obnoxious stench of racism comes from people in so called rich countries. It's even more of a shame when words are twisted by media to influence young minds with

lies. It's even more of a shame when so called authorities perpetuate racism and behave racistly and enforce racist policies and behaviour through intimidating means amidst outer

sweet and polite talks. Racism seems to be prominent among so called white people in rich countries who cannot bear non-whites from other countries of origin. Planet Earth belongs

to people of Earth. Highly educated people of high intellectual calibres, rich bosses and CEOs, etc, of rich countries are a blotch on humanity and their material levels when they

haven't yet evolved to basic human concepts of all humans have red blood irrespective of race.

Racism stems from social attitudes that are perpetuated by racist societies, the media, the authoritarians, and the peers. It's time to say, shame on all those who perpetuate racism

and racist attitudes. It's time the white rigid narrowminded racist colonialists go back to where they came from.

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Female coaches in women's sports at all-time low

guest — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:00:14 GMT

According to NCAA reports, the percentage of female head coaches of women's teams fell from more than 90% in 1972, as Title IX became law, to an all-time low of about 42% in 2006.

Why, 35 years later, is there such a disparity in college coaching between males and females? How can this trend be altered?

Equality & the NCAA

guest — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:02:04 GMT

Thirty-five years after Congress passed Title IX, the landmark federal law requiring gender equity in scholastic athletics, the percentage of women's teams coached by women is at its lowest point ever.

More men also are coaching women's teams than at any other time in history, and the average salaries for coaches of women's teams still trail those of coaches for men's teams, according to an Associated Press review of statistics provided by the NCAA and other groups.

It's easy to get caught on either side of the dichotomy of: women have come a long way or that women still have a long way to go in the eyes of equality. But I don't think those two options are mutually exclusive. I think both statements are accurate. What do you think?

Women's Sports Foundation honors athletes

guest — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:16:26 GMT

The Women’s Sports Foundation honored 12 athletes of Slippery Rock University who filed a Title IX lawsuit against the school when it eliminated women’s field hockey, women’s swimming and women’s water polo.

The members of these teams filed Title IX complaints against the school when they recognized they were receiving worse treatment than the boys’ teams received. Slippery Rock soon after announced its decision to cut these women’s teams.

After this decision came down the teams decided to sue the school under Title IX.

The U.S. Chief District judge ordered Slippery Rock to reinstate all three teams and the 12 athletes reached a comprehensive settlement with the school. In April, the Women’s Sports Foundation awarded the 12 athletes and three teams with Geena Takes Aim Resolutions in honor of their dedication to sport and commitment to equity. The Geena Takes Aim National Resolution is a Women’s Sports Foundation recognition program honoring individuals and groups who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment in pursuit of gender equity, civil rights and social justice in sport.

Team LUNA Chix to in Seattle & Austin

guest — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:04:22 GMT

Recognizing the importance of inspiration and motivation in women?s sports, LUNA® is proud to expand their Team LUNA Chix program beyond our current women?s mountain bike teams in the Bay Area and Boulder. LUNA is now looking to recruit women who are interested in being part of the Team LUNA Chix program. If you live in Seattle or Austin, are currently active in the sport of Mountain Biking and are interested in being part of this program, please contact Inger Norman at:

inorman@clifbar.com

Please note, this is an extension of our current non-competitive Mountain Bike LUNA Chix Ambassador program, NOT an extension of our Professional Women's Mountain Bike Team. Please visit www.lunabar.com/lunachix to see the current

Mountain Bike Ambassador format.

LUNA's objectives for the program are:

1.) To get more women involved in sports and outdoor activities.

2.) To inspire women to seek new challenges through outdoor activity.

3.) To encourage social change by actively participating in fund-raising efforts for the Breast Cancer Fund.

4.) To have fun while sending an aspirational message to women with similar interests.