Tag Archives: football
On #KUboobs and choice feminism
TweetOn Friday, BuzzFeed posted a soft-core porn display of University of Kansas football basketball fans Tweeting pictures of their cleavage “to support their college team.” Apparently #KUboobs, as its called, has been going on for some time, and the trend has spread to other schools. Yet, given my lack of expertise in both college sports [...]
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Notre Dame football cares way more about an imaginary dead girl than a real one
TweetGranted, this is truly a weird and almost addictively fascinating story. But let’s not forget that while the media buzzes and the university responds, the Notre Dame football program has pretty much ignored an actual dead girl. Irin Carmon writes: Less than a day into the Manti Te’o revelations, we’ve heard more about a fake [...]
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ESPN announcers drool over quarterback’s girlfriend, illustrate football’s culture of entitlement
TweetSo there was a big football game yesterday. And while I boycotted it, apparently ESPN announcers Kirk Herbstreit and Brent Musburger had some time between plays to devote to ogling the Alabama quarterback’s girlfriend. Some real classy stuff: “When you’re a quarterback at Alabama, you see that lovely lady there? She does go to Auburn, I’ll [...]
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Boycott Notre Dame v. Alabama
TweetTonight, the University of Notre Dame’s football team will play Alabama’s in Miami. I don’t know anything about sports (other than girls’ high school cross country, it’s a vicious world) but I get why a clash between the two top ranked college programs in the country would be a big deal. But I’m still confused [...]
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Back in Steubenville, rape culture is still winning as football coach’s contract is renewed