Tag: women in sports
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Meet Rebecca “Moose” Morse!
If you don’t know Rebecca Morse, or Moose as she likes to be called, she is an (NWHL) All-Star defender for the Metropolitan Riveters. She recently completed her fourth season with the team and re-signed to return for a fifth season. Through the ups and downs of playing, advocating, and taking lots of different food […]
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Meet Taryn Hatcher!
In October 2018 Taryn Hatcher graced the screens of Philadelphia for the first time as a rinkside side reporter for NBC Sports Philadelphia during their coverage of the Philadelphia Flyers. It was a dream come true for Taryn as she was a fan of the team since she was a young child growing up outside […]
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Meet Amanda Smith
Social media has the tendency of being one of those places where it is easy to fall down a rabbit hole of things. Seriously, there are posts about everything humanly possible coming from every different direction. One minute you can be looking at a tweet a friend has retweeted and the next it could be […]
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Meet Claudia Letonja
The first thing people probably realize about Claudia Letonja when you find her on social media is that she is a big Dodgers fan. If it’s not that, it’s the fact she is an amazing painter who focuses heavily on baseball and dabbles occasionally in wrestling and hockey. It’s hard not to be stopped in […]
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Five Favorites: Baseball Movies
Everyone has their favorite baseball movies. We have all seen the very lively debates on social media. I decided to take a stab at coming up with my personal five favorite baseball movies. 1. A League of Their Own | Amazon Prime: The 1992 Classic movie was directed by Penny Marshall and told a fictional […]
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Our Top Sports Moment This Week
We know you were probably expecting our top 5 sports moments post today. Originally, that was our plan too. However, it just didn’t feel right given current circumstances. It’s hard to find sources of joy in times that feel so dismal. We can spend time feeling sad and remorseful about innocent lives being lost and […]
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We Are Not a Distraction
In case you missed it, NHL on NBC analyst Mike Milbury made an incredibly insensitive and misogynistic comment during Thursday’s game between the Capitals and the Islanders. In the clip above, Milbury blatantly refers to women as a distraction to players. Whether he is referring to female fans, reporters, photographers, other members of staff, or […]
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Women Who Love Sports: Emily’s Story
Hi! My name is Emily and I am the creator of She Writes Sports. Amanda, a writer here on this site, suggested the idea to me to feature stories of women who are sports fans. You can read her story here. I was born and raised in Philadelphia, and if you know anything about Philly, […]
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