Women’s Sports | The Big Lead

Women’s Sports Archives

Britney Griner Will Not Play in the Olympics

Posted April 19, 2012, 5:40 pm by Jason Lisk (5 Comments)

The Baylor star was going to be the first collegiate Olympian since 1988.

[ Read More... ]

Pat Summitt Steps Down As Tennessee Coach After 38 Seasons and 8 National Championships

Posted April 18, 2012, 2:30 pm by Stephen Douglas (CRM!) (33 Comments)

Summitt was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2000.

[ Read More... ]

Alex Morgan Happy Playing Soccer in Seattle With Boyfriend Servando Carrasco

Posted April 16, 2012, 3:57 pm by Stephen Douglas (CRM!) (57 Comments)

One is famous, the other is just a professional soccer player.

[ Read More... ]

Roundup: Google’s Project Glass, the Oral History of Friends & the Masters Begins Today

Posted April 5, 2012, 8:07 am by Stephen Douglas (CRM!) (210 Comments)

Katrina Bowden, Scarlett Johansson, Samantha Brick, Jim Henson’s short film, sex for cheeseburgers, skateboarding’s first 1080 and Team L.C.

[ Read More... ]

Roundup: Baylor and Brittney Griner Complete 40-0 Season & the Top 100 Journalists Over the Last 100 Years

Posted April 4, 2012, 8:00 am by Jason McIntyre (231 Comments)

If you haven’t heard the Chevy Chase call, it’s funny. Less funny more serious: Whatever was in the sky (UFO?) in Vegas.

[ Read More... ]

Amanda Beard Struggled with Bulimia and Self-Mutilation During Her Olympic Medal-Winning Swimming Career

Posted April 2, 2012, 2:35 pm by Stephen Douglas (CRM!) (78 Comments)

During her teens and 20′s the clinically depressed Beard became bulimic (an eating disorder characterized by binge eating, then purging), abused drugs and alcohol and began cutting herself with a razor.

[ Read More... ]

Roundup: Watch a Tractor Trailer and Tow Truck Go Over a Cliff, Brittney Griner’s Bears are 39-0 & Kansas vs. Kentucky

Posted April 2, 2012, 8:13 am by Jason McIntyre (283 Comments)

Who’s excited about Kansas vs. Kentucky?

[ Read More... ]