the ladies league

- Sonia Gysland, athletic trainer for the Pittsburgh Steelers 

This may not be well known, but women as athletic trainers have been amazingly scarce within the NFL for many years.  Why is this amazing?  Over 50% of athletic trainers are women.  But in the NFL, women are...

A team is a complex entity, it is full of many people with different personalities, abilities and strengths. Ideally, coaches, managers and scouts want to recruit the best players, but what makes the best players stand out? 

For me, I love my hometown teams and some pla...

In March, 5 members of the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) filed a complaint against the U.S. Soccer Federation regarding equal pay. They asserted that members of the USWNT earned about 25% less than their male counterparts.  When we consider the quality of the men'...

As we have heard, and I have written about, Monica Abbott is now the highest paid women’s athlete in a team sport. Though she signed a 6-year, $1 million contract, is she as good as her salary says she is?

According to data collected from Abbott’s 2015 season in the Nat...

A few weeks ago I wrote a story on the hazards of female athletes and eating disorders. While it is more common for females to experience eating disorders and the accompanying side effects, it cannot be ignored that males also experience the consequences.

Beginning with...

While many basketball fans have spent the past few weeks focused on the NBA playoffs, the WNBA tipped off its 20th season. When the WNBA first began, there were 8 teams. Of those 8 teams, one -- the Phoenix Mercury-- holds a special place in my heart like all of my oth...

Well folks, the Women’s College World Series (WCWS) has come to an end, but not before leading the cable sports TV ratings for the last day of the series. With 78,072 fans attending, attendance this year was only 6 fans short of the WCWS record. The ratings and attenda...

Within athletics, a healthy balanced diet is important to help the competitor reach the next level. Most athletes are placed on some sort of diet to help them stay healthy and fully primed for competition.  It is when this push for perfection is taken too far, that ath...

The Women's College World Series -- the most watched of the College World Series (yes, women attract more viewers than men!) -- is set to begin on Thursday.  Here is what you need to know before the first pitch!

There are eight teams left in the Women’s College World...

 2009: LeBron James scored an impressive 55 points against the Milwaukee Bucks.

Well it would be impressive if someone else did this. But LeBron has been excellent since day one. So now that is what is expected of him: excellence. It still may be fun to watch, but no l...