Two days before she was to graduate from Vanderbilt in the spring of 1980, Teresa Lawrence was working out in the school's weight room when Emily Harsh, VU's women's athletic director at the time, asked her what she was going to do for a career.
Do you have a daughter? And if you do, does she participate in sports on a competitive level?
A few minutes after the Atlanta Braves' impressive 6-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on Sunday afternoon, Bally Sports analyst and former Braves pitcher Peter Moylan made the following observation:
Sharon Fanning-Otis refuses to identify the guilty party. Nor will she give up the name of the institution of higher learning the neanderthal administrator worked for. But she has never forgotten the words or the sentiment connected to them.
By midnight Thursday night, the National Basketball Association will either have a new champion or a seventh and deciding game on tap for Sunday evening.
Henry Dickerson needs our prayers.
It was the late U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt who once described his ideal foreign policy as one that would "speak softly and carry a big stick."
When this country quite rightly celebrates the 50th anniversary of Title IX on June 23, one could understand if former Notre Dame High School and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga baseball pitcher John Sellman might be less than thrilled to honor the occasion.
The post appeared on a University of Georgia parents Facebook page a couple of weeks ago. The mother of a UGA student wrote: "My daughter had to go all the way to Italy to meet Stetson Bennett."
The Atlanta Braves had won 11 of their last 17 games heading into Tuesday night's visit from the Oakland A's.
