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Public Perception of Female Athletes
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Chapter 4: Shut Up and Play
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Williams, Charean. “Michael Sam: ‘I’m Not the Only Gay Person in the NFL.’” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 26, 2015. www.star-telegram.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/article16442273.html.
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Chapter 5: More Than Just a Game
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Oppel, Richard A. Jr., Sheryl Gay Stolberg, and Matt Apuzzo. “Justice Department to Release Blistering Report of Racial Bias by Baltimore Police.” New York Times, August 9, 2016. www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/justice-department-to-release-blistering-report-of-racial-bias-by-baltimore-police.html.
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Chapter 6: A Personal Choice
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Notes
Introduction
1. Benjamin Mueller and Nate Schweber, “Officer Who Arrested James Blake Has History of Force Complaints,” September 11, 2015, www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/nyregion/video-captures-new-york-officer-manhandling-tennis-star-during-arrest.html.
2. Nate Scott, “Broncos Linebacker Brandon Marshall Takes Knee During National Anthem,” September 8, 2016, http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/09/broncos-brandon-marshall-takes-knee-national-anthem-colin-kaepernick.
3. Marc Tracy, “Inside College Basketball’s Most Political Locker Room,” November 16, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/sports/ncaabasketball/wisconsin-badgers-nigel-hayes.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0.
4. Julie Bosman and Mitch Smith, “Chicago Police Routinely Trampled on Civil Rights, Justice Dept. Says,” January 13, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/us/chicago-police-justice-department-report.html.
Chapter 1: Early Trailblazers
1. Bill Christine, “Jockey Julie Krone More Than Holds Own on Track,” February 03, 1988, http://articles.latimes.com/1988-02-03/sports/sp-27085_1_julie-krone.
2. “Mexico 1968,” Olympic.org, https://www.olympic.org/mexico-1968.
3. Dave Zirin, “Australian Government Will Issue Overdue Apology to 1968 Olympic Hero Peter Norman,” The Nation, https://www.thenation.com/article/australian-government-will-issue-overdue-apology-1968-olympic-hero-peter-norman.
4. Australian Olympic Committee, “Peter Norman not shunned by AOC,” November 6, 2016, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/news/peter-norman-not-shunned-by-aoc.
Chapter 2: Changing the Game
1. Mbiyimoh Ghogomu, “The Quickest Possible Explanation of the Current Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” July 10, 2014, http://thehigherlearning.com/2014/07/10/quickest-possible-explanation-of-the-current-israeli-palestinian-conflict.
2. “This Day in History: May 14, 1948: State of Israel Proclaimed,” History.com, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/state-of-israel-proclaimed.
3. Peter Foster, “Muslim Who Plays with Jew Faces Tennis Ban,” The Telegraph, July 2002, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1398984/Muslim-who-plays-with-Jew-faces-tennis-ban.html. See also Mbiyimoh Ghogomu, “The Quickest Possible Explanation of the Current Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” The Higher Learning, July 2014, http://thehigherlearning.com/2014/07/10/quickest-possible-explanation-of-the-current-israeli-palestinian-conflict.
4. Foster, “Muslim Who Plays with Jew Faces Tennis Ban.”
5. “Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: Facing Down Rebellion,” BBC News, October 21, 2015, www.bbc.com/news/10338256.
6. Ibid.
7. “Who We Are,” website of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), www.fifa.com/about-fifa/who-we-are/index.html.
8. Ibid.
9. Juliet Macur, “Long Before Kaepernick, There Was Navratilova,” New York Times, October 16, 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/sports/martina-navratilova-colin-kaepernick-protest.html.
10. Lauren Collins, “The Third Man,” The New Yorker, September 2013, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/02/the-third-man-8.
11. Ksenija Pavlovic, “World Tennis No.1 Novak Djokovic Talks to Spectator Life ahead of Wimbledon,” The Spectator (UK), June 22, 2013, www.spectator.co.uk/2013/06/home-game.
Chapter 3: You Run Like a Girl
1. A. Uhlir, “The Wolf Is Our Shepherd: Shall We Not Fear?” Phi Delta Kappan 64, no. 3 (November 1982): 172–76.
2. E. J. Vargyas, Breaking Down Barriers: A Legal Guide to Title IX (Washington, DC: National Women’s Law Center, 1994).
3. M. J. Festle, Playing Nice: Politics and Apolo
gies in Women’s Sports (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).
4. M. McKeown, “Women in Intercollegiate Athletics,” in The Need For a National Study of Intercollegiate Athletics: A Report to the American Council on Education, G. H. Hanford, ed., vol. 2, pp. 369–87 (ERIC Document Reproduction Service no. ED 132 968).
5. Festle, Playing Nice; Uhlir, “The Wolf Is Our Shepherd.”
6. K. L. Hill, “Women in Sport: Backlash or Megatrend?” Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance 64, no. 9 (November/December 1993): 49–52.
7. Vargyas, Breaking Down Barriers, 6.
8. Robert B. Everhart and Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton, The Institutionalization of a Gender Biased Sport Value System, Winter 2001, www.advancingwomen.com/awl/winter2001/everhart_pemberton.html.
Chapter 4: Shut Up and Play
1. Chris Kluwe, “I Was an NFL Player Until I Was Fired by Two Cowards and a Bigot,” Deadspin, January 1, 2014, https://deadspin.com/i-was-an-nfl-player-until-i-was-fired-by-two-cowards-an-1493208214.
2. Ibid.
3. Tom Pelissero, “Former Vikings Punter Chris Kluwe Plans to Sue Team,” USA Today, July 15, 2014, www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/vikings/2014/07/15/chris-kluwe-lawsuit-discrimination-mike-priefer/12674611.
4. Ibid.
5. Ben Goessling, “Chris Kluwe, Vikings Avoid Lawsuit,” ESPN.com, August 19, 2014, www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/11375100/chris-kluwe-minnesota-vikings-reach-settlement-avert-lawsuit.
6. Josh Levin, “Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Is Working,” Slate, September 12, 2016, www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2016/09/colin_kaepernick_s_protest_is_working.html.
7. Nate Boyer, “An Open Letter to Colin Kaepernick from a Green Beret-Turned-Long Snapper,” Army Times, August 30, 2016, www.armytimes.com/articles/nate-boyer-colin-kaepernick-commentary-flag-national-anthem-protest-nfl.
Chapter 5: More Than Just a Game
1. Julie Bosman and Mitch Smith, “Chicago Police Routinely Trampled on Civil Rights, Justice Dept. Says,” January 13, 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/us/chicago-police-justice-department-report.html.
2. Jesse Washington, “Still No Anthem, Still No Regrets for Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf,” The Undefeated, September 1, 2016, https://theundefeated.com/features/abdul-rauf-doesnt-regret-sitting-out-national-anthem.
3. Ibid.
Epilogue
1. Tony Connelly, The Drum, “Nike’s CEO Condemned Trump’s Immigration Order in a Letter to Staff,” January 30, 2017, www.businessinsider.com/nikes-ceo-condemned-trumps-immigration-order-in-a-letter-to-staff-2017–1.
2. Todd Spangler, Variety, “Tech CEOs Blast Trump Muslim Immigration, Travel Ban: ‘So Un-American It Pains Us All,’” January 28, 2017, http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/netflix-apple-google-trump-muslim-immigration-ban-1201972448/.
3. Judd Legum, Think Progress, “Starbucks’ Epic Response to Trump’s Executive Order,” January 29, 2017, https://thinkprogress.org/starbucks-epic-response-to-trumps-executive-order-a9d2cd8f9786.
4. Ellen McGirt, “Read Nike CEO’s Heartbreaking Letter to Employees About Race and Violence,” July 15, 2016, Fortune.com, http://fortune.com/2016/07/15/nike-ceo-letter-race-police.
5. “WME-IMG to Form Political Action Committee, Vows to Protect Company ‘Diversity’,” by Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter.com, February 2017, www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wme-i-img-form-political-action-committee-vows-protect-company-diversity-973353.
Index
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A
Abdul-Rauf, Mahmoud, 17, 176–78, 179, 180, 184, 186, 206
Agassi, Andre, 57, 132
al-Assad, Bashar, 89–90
Ali, Muhammad, 21, 28
Ashe, Arthur, 12–14, 25, 195, 217–18
Ayanbadejo, Brendon, 137–42, 144–45, 150, 185, 195, 197
B
Barkley, Charles, 195
Barnett, Marilyn, 58
Bass, Mistie, 18, 155
Bayh, Birch, 120
Bennett, Martellus, 155, 208
Berra, Yogi, 149
Blair, Tony, 130
Blake, Betty (author’s mom), 1–2, 127, 158
Blake, Emily (author’s wife), 6
Blake, James (author’s grandfather), 6
Blake, Thomas, 1–2
Blake, Tom (author’s dad), 1–2, 70, 127
Bland, Sandra, 171, 201
Blount, LeGarrette, 208
Boertman, Judi, 39
Bone, Kelsey, 18, 155
Bouska, Adam, 138
Boyd, Brittany, 155
Boyer, Nate, 157–58
Brady, Tom, 148
Branch, Alan, 208
Bratton, William, 7
Brown, Michael, 201
Brown, Rita Mae, 98
Burns, Emmett, C., 138–41
Bush, George W., 99
C
Capriati, Jennifer, 20, 131
Carter, Ron, 48
Castile, Philando, 173, 180, 183, 201
Cena, John, 208
Cheney, Dick, 197
Clifton, Nat “Sweetwater,” 35–36
Clijsters, Kim, 20, 131, 185–86
Clinton, Bill, 99
Clinton, Hillary, 64, 68, 105–6, 136, 145, 209
Collins, Bud, 97
Collins, Jason, 142, 143, 149
Cooper, Chuck, 35–36
Copeland, Misty, 209
Cromartie, Antonio, 139
Crutcher, Terence, 173–74, 180, 201
Curry, Steph, 68–69, 208–9
D
Davenport, Lindsay, 57, 129, 131
DeGeneres, Ellen, 145
Désir, Alison Mariella, 102
Djokovic, Novak
activism for children, 114–16
Ana Ivanovic and, 108, 111
early interest in tennis, 111, 112
growing up in war-torn Serbia, 107–8
Monica Seles and, 111, 112
overcoming fear amid war, 112–13
persevering to become number one tennis player, 107, 112–14
Serbian athletes, training challenges and, 111–12
E
Ederle, Gertrude, 29, 38
Edwards, Dr. Harry, 154, 166, 210
Evans, Mike, 164, 192
Evert, Chris, 57, 96, 97, 148
F
Farah, Sir Mo, 211–12
Federer, Roger, 104, 114, 129, 131
Festle, M. J., 119–20
Fish, Mardy, 148
Foster, Arian, 155, 156
Frascatore, Officer, 5, 7, 10–11, 175–76, 198, 199–200
Fujita, Scott, 141–42, 185, 197
G
Garner, Eric, 172, 201
Gibson, Althea, 21, 29
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 98–99
Gordon, Harry, 48
Gray, Freddie, 172, 201
Griner, Brittney, 19
H
Hadad, Amir, Qureshi and, 20, 72–73, 78–80, 195
Halunen, Clayton, 146, 147
Hamm, Mia, 117
Hardy, Greg, 147
Harris, Nic, 139
Hathaway, Anne, 145
Hayes, Nigel, 22–23, 196
Hayes, Talisa, 102
Henin, Justine, 131
Hightower, Dont’a, 208
Hill, Jordan, 22, 196
Hingis, Martina, 57, 131
Holzmann, Dan, 108–9, 110
Hussein, Prince Ali bin al-, 91–92
I
Ivanovic, Ana
activism for children, 110–11, 115–16
benefactor Holzmann and, 108–9, 110
Monica Seles and, 108, 110
Novak Djokovic and, 108, 111
persevering to become number one tennis player, 107, 108–11
practicing tennis amid multiple challenges, 108–9
J
James, LeBron, 68, 70, 134, 135–37, 148, 1
85, 214, 215
Jankovic, Jelena, 108, 111
Johnson, Dwayne “The Rock,” 208–9
Johnson, Magic, 101
Jordan, Michael, 68, 69
Jwaba, Rama Khalid, 90–95
K
Kaepernick, Colin, 153–60
Abdul-Rauf and, 176, 178
creating change, 187
impact of activism, 16–17, 153, 153–55, 158–60, 187
justice Ginsburg comments on, 98–99
looking into motives of, 197–98
as model of activism, 195
motivation for activism, 32–33, 153–54
Obama on activism of, 156
philanthropy and outreach of, 136–37, 157, 165–66, 184
reactions to/ramifications of activism, 98–99, 153, 154–57, 166, 169, 184
respect for/response from military, 157–58
rightfully expressing himself, 186
risks taken by, 17–18
Carlos Smith and, 42–43
speaking with Dr. Harry Edwards, 154, 166, 210
support from team and other athletes, 17–18, 153, 155–57, 188