Posts under ‘Academia’

Study looking for non-straight coaches

This came in last week from Pat Griffin of It Takes A Team. If you’re a non-heterosexual coach (or former), definitely contact the researcher; we can’t get enough of this kind of research going.

Looking for Non-Heterosexual Coaches for Research Study
Are you interested in participating in a research study examining female collegiate coaches work experiences with [...]

The 2008 NCAA Season and Tournament: Turning predictability into an artform

I can’t think of a worse thing than four number one seeds in the Final Four … well, maybe watching Kelvin Sampson join me in a Sprint family plan. But outside of that, nothing worse.
Four ones is so bland, blase, mundane, unsurprising. Who wants to see that?
Problem is these guys - Kansas, North Carolina, Memphis [...]

Why you should root for Xavier, reasons 1-206 (or maybe a few less)

So I realize there’s a lot of Joe Alexander fans on this board, many disappointed his Mountaineers are out of the tournament. For you, I’ll allow a moment of silence.
Ok, moment’s over.
Here’s why you should root for the scrappy bunch of ballers that knocked off Joey A and his mountain men, the Xavier Musketeers.
10) [...]

Davidson has the coolest administration in world history

I want to go to Davidson College. Like right now. Not a second later.
You see, the school is going a little crazy with this Sweet 16 stuff, and now wants its students to be in Detroit for Friday’s showdown with Wisconsin. How badly?
Well, badly enough: The school sent out this email, one reported [...]

‘The Front Runner’ on gay sports

Patricia Nell Warren, who writes a series for Outsports about gay-sports history and who contributes to this blog, is writing a two-part piece for Pat Griffin’s “It Takes A Team” about her experiences and observations about the influence of sports on the perception of gender and sexuality. It’s been a common theme in many of [...]

Masculine sports culture starting to accept gay sex

That’s the assertion that openly gay sociologist Eric Anderson, whom most of us affectionately know as Coach Gumby (right), makes in a new study. He talked to 47 (apparently masculine) cheerleaders at American universities, all of whom played football in high school. Nineteen of them said they had had sexual contact with another man. All [...]