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Danish supermom Rasmussen boxing to raise voice against Pompe disease

Photo by AIBA Article by Jonathan Selvaraj, via ESPN On Saturday morning, Yvonne Baek Rasmussen made a phone call from New Delhi to her two children back home in Denmark, just as they were getting ready to go to school. "I asked how things were with them and how...

Ramla Ali: ‘In boxing we are all equal’

Photo by Alan Clarke Article by Alex Moshakis, via The Guardian When Ramla Ali, a British champion boxer, is preparing for an important tournament, she visits the Peacock gym in Canning Town, east London, where Lennox Lewis once trained. There she rattles through a revolving cast of handy sparring partners....

Argentine women fight against inequality in soccer

Photo by AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko Article by Debora Rey, via Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — In a country where the soccer conversation is overwhelmingly dominated by talk of Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona, female players in Argentina struggle to be heard. That’s changing rapidly, however, and...

No, Athletes Will Not ‘Shut Up And Dribble’ — And They Never Have

Photo: Shut Up and Dribble (Showtime) Article by Linda Holmes, via NPR The new documentary series Shut Up and Dribble, which premiered the first of its three parts this weekend on Showtime, is a response to commentator Laura Ingraham's dismissive February 2018 sneer in the direction of LeBron James, one...

Future uncertain even for heavily favored Warriors

Article by Shaun Powell, via NBA OAKLAND -- They’re only one game into a season where they once again find themselves heavy favorites to take a confetti shower in June, and the Golden State Warriors have already identified perhaps their toughest battle. It’s their tug-of-war with change, which was evident Tuesday...