The one thing that nobody seemed to be talking about was that though there was an element of sensationalism to the coverage of her story, Fox was being subjected to the exact same treatment in the press and popular opinion as many other female athletes. I caught up with Fox by Skype to talk about what it means to be a female competitor in America today. [Read More]
I pretty much hate American football. The version of masculinity that the sport generally celebrates--a tobacco-chawing, square-jawed, graceless hyper-macho image of bloodthirsty men--is the very antithesis of what I love about soccer/world football. It would take something extraordinary for me to cultivate an interest in it. [Read More]
Why it’s important to include LGBTQ programming in anti-poverty and anti-homelessness initiatives. [Read More]
I'm going to keep looking for the hidden stories. [Read More]
Photographer Jeff Sheng has spent the more than nine years traveling across the United States and Canada to photograph out high school and college-level athletes. The project, called Fearless, will be a book of photography documenting these extraordinary youth. [Read More]
Wanna get your do-good on? We need help getting 100 soccer balls from Cincinnati, Ohio to Lira, Uganda [Read More]
Chantal Sutherland’s bio reads like adventure fiction. [Read More]
While more professional athletes have come out of the closet in the past year than in the past decade, one expert on homophobia in professional sports says the sports world is still the last great bastion of institutionalized homophobia. [Read More]
I recently joined over 34,000 other people on a Facebook group called Let Us Play, which promotes the idea that women and girls should be allowed to play soccer/football in hijab. Specifically, the group is lobbying the International Football Association Board [Read More]
Who would have thought that a soccer story rivalling the Peruvian women's football team for uncomplicated goodness would come along so soon? Not me, but one has. [Read More]
