This is a cross post with FierceAndNerdy.com.
A couple weeks ago the New York Times ran an article about the disparity between boys and girls’ sports.
Schools have made great strides towards scholastic athletic equality since the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Although Title IX made no specific reference to athletics [...]

I was a very lucky kid.
When I was 10 years old, my Old Man built a 60 foot two-hooped basketball court in our back yard. My parents had a feeling I might be difficult to handle—I can’t imagine what gave them that idea—and this was their ingenious way of keeping me close [...]

This is a cross post with FierceAndNerdy.com.
Now here’s something that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately as an expectant mother: should I enroll my child in a sport, and if so, how should I go about it?
I still remember my first trip to the YMCA when I was seven-years-old. My mother took my sister [...]