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April 1: The best thing I've read this week

4/1/2019

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March Madness is whittling down to the Final Four, which tips off Friday in Tampa, as well as in Minneapolis on Saturday. 

One of the most accomplished coaches left in the field is Muffet McGraw, who has led two of her Notre Dame teams to the national championship. (The Fighting Irish face Stanford tonight for a trip to the semifinals.) 

My friend Lindsay Gibbs of ThinkProgress went to South Bend, Indiana in February to report on an interesting phenomenon on the Irish bench -- the fact that all the coaches are women.  

It turns out that no one may be more aware of a scale-tipping inequality in college coaching. In women's basketball, about 40 percent of the coaches in NCAA Division I are men. Of course, there are zero women coaching in men's basketball. (There is one female assistant in DI men's hoops -- former WNBA player Edniesha Curry at the University of Maine.) 

This is a well-written that is thoroughly reported. The numbers are staggering, and it wasn't just McGraw's blunt response: Asked whether she plans to ever hire a male coach again, she doesn’t hesitate: “No.” You will learn something by reading this article. 

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    Molly Yanity, Ph.D.
    Point Loma Nazarene College, B.A. '96
    Ohio University, M.S. '11, Ph.D. '13

    ​Curriculum Vitae (5/6/25)


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    Our two books on the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup are out and available online and in hardback from Routledge as part of the publisher's "Critical Research in Football" series.
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     2019 FIFA Women's World Cup: Media, Fandom, and Soccer's Biggest Stage is available online and in hardback from Palgrave Macmillan. 

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    In 1996, American sportswomen had quite a summer. Dr. Yanity joins gold medalists Sue Bird, Julie Foudy,  Briana Scurry and others in this podcast hosted by Olympic champion Michelle Kwan to talk about the impact that "summer of gold" had. 
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