Should Women be allowed to Golf on a Men's Turf?

There is a constant controversy between men and women's golf at the Augusta Country Club in Georgia. Every year the Masters are held there, however there is not a woman to be found within the competition. On the other hand you have Michelle Wie at the age of fifteen years old was aloud to play with the men's professional tour. Is there a difference that lies between these two situations. If a woman is good enough to play with men as competition and hold their own, they should be able to compete on the best of the best courses. What do you believe? Is it the chauvinism within society that is taking part in who dictates in the participation of sport or is it the idea that woman can't surpass men in "their" possibly social sport?

julia schrofer
t/th @ 12:30 p
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Yankee Stadium's Last Hoorah.

Tonight was the last night Yankee Stadium is to host a New York Yankee's baseball game. For 85 years Yankee Stadium was home to many of the most historic and storied moments in sports. As far as baseball is concerned this is huge, but tonight's closing means so much more than just a stadium where a lot of players played during their careers or where championships were won. Yankee Stadium is where memories for thousands if not millions of men, women, and children were made. These memories would be passed on from one person to another with some becoming legend or myth. It is interesting to see or read about the emotions a stadium can evoke and is a perfect example of how sports can leave its realm of wins, losses, and statistics and effect those who have played on the field and sat in the seats. This is when something as inorganic as a concrete and metal stadium can become organic by way of our memories and stories.

- R. Kim (kin 332I.S3200)

Paraolympics - A great Athlete!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/sports/othersports/11gold.html?ref=sports

2008 "Redeem Team"

This year while Americans watched in almost disbelief as Michael Phelps swam past anything that dared entering the water and single-handedly putting the U.S. gold medal count higher than most of the world, some other American athletes were causally and gracefully charming the shorts of the rest of the world. Kobe Bryant with his roots deep in China and other foreign countries led the U.S. Olympic Basketball Team to another gold medal all the while acting professionally and showing the rest of the world that Americans do care about the rest of the world, about how we are viewed and indentified by other cultures. LeBron James, along with Dwayne Wade became visible leaders of this team. Each player embrased their leaders and followed them in terms of symmetry on the court to acting as American embassadors to the rest of the nations present in Bejing. I was proud to watch our superstars act the way they did because it helps change the attitudes we face or had faced with previous teams like the 1992 Dream Team. Charles Barkley's elbowing incident put a scar on our reputation as smug, and possibly thinking we were better than other countries. Kobe, LeBron, and the others are helping to show what I think is a better, more honest vision of what we as Americans really are like, at least those of us who want to be in partnership with other nations across the world. Within the changing global market, in order to be successful Americans must adopt a welcoming environment for sports around the world.

Paralympic Athletes Add Equality to Their Goals

2008 Olympics

As the Olympics progress into the week, there have been several fascinating events to watch. What has been your favorite?

Watching the 2008 Olympics although they were some time ago were so fascinating! Obviously I seriously enjoyed watching the soccer tournament, because I am biased and I had a couple of friends playing on the Olympic Women's Team. I also thought it was quite interesting to see the concept of some sports that I never thought exist actually come into the Olympics as an actual sport in which you were to compete in. For example, I never new there was such thing as trampoline gymnastics?! Wow, I know its hard enough to jump on a trampoline consecutively without losing balance but jumping that high in the air and landing in a box that is only so big...wow. I am a naturally competitive person by nature and honestly, I think that if I were to actually tell you all of the events I enjoyed this blog would never end. But all in all every event was a real treat and especially to see a specific person get multiple medals.
Julia Schrofer
t/th at 12:20p
kin 332I.S3200