Former Stanford star Jennifer Azzi, an Olympian with a career in motivational speaking, had never been an assistant coach anywhere when she was tapped to revive the struggling program at the University of San Francisco.
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Have a Look Around
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My book, “Beyond Title IX”
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About Wendy Parker
Sports journalist and Web editor, formerly with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Correspondent for Basketball Times. Author of "Beyond Title IX: The Cultural Laments of Women's Sports."Named to the Sports Illustrated Twitter 100 list.
Here's more about the other places I write and what I've done in journalism.
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About Extracurriculars
I explore the connections between sports and the broader (and not just pop) culture, through books, history, documentaries, reviews and the arts.
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How to Get in Touch
You may contact me via e-mail at wendygparker@gmail.com
On LinkedIn at wendygparker
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Recent Posts
- Sportswriters and numbers: An oil-and-vinegar reprise
- Catching steroids ‘cheaters’ — by any means necessary
- Weekend arts: An ode to a baseball poem — or two
- Sports history files: Remembering Deacon Jones
- Midweek books: American Pastimes and the pastime
- A slow news relic passes: Pro Football Weekly, RIP
- The surprising odyssey of putting women in charge
- Friday arts: Plimpton at his creative best
- Sports history files: Grappling with an uncertain fate
- Midweek books: Baseball summer reading list
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Blogroll
- A More Splendid Life
- A Scout's Perspective
- American Soccer History Archives
- American Sports Council
- Association for Professional Basketball Research
- Baseball Reference
- Basketball Prospectus
- Basketball State
- Basketball Times
- Bronx Banter
- Business of College Sports
- Business of Sports Network
- College Sports Business News
- Daily Fix
- Equalizer Soccer
- Fang's Bites
- Field of Schemes
- Forbes Sports Money
- Game Theory
- Grantland Director's Cut
- Hockey Research Association
- Hoopfeed
- Internet Hockey Database
- Jack Fertig
- Jason Fry
- Joe Favorito
- Jonah Keri
- Jonathan Wilson
- Journal of Sport History
- Man, Economy and Sport
- Money Players
- New Books In Sports
- Only A Game
- Pitch Invasion
- Pro Football Reference
- Professional Football Researchers Association
- Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
- Saturday Down South
- SB Nation Longform
- Sherman Report Sunday Books
- Simon Kuper
- Slate's Sports Nut
- Sloan Sports Analytics
- Society for American Baseball Research
- Sports Business Data Pages
- Sports Business Journal
- Sports Illustrated Vault
- Sports Law Blog
- Sports on Earth
- Sportsgeekonomics
- Sweet Spot
- Swifter, Higher
- The Classical
- The Hardball Times
- The Mid Majority
- The Run of Play
- The Science of Sport
- The Sports Bookie
- The Sports Economist
- The Stacks
- The Sweet Science
- Transparency in Sport
- TrueHoop
- When Saturday Comes
- WomenTalkSports
- Your Kid's Not Going Pro
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My Latest Tweets
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Archives
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- December 2011 (20)
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- September 2010 (40)
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