Reader’s request: White Ribbon Day In 2006, the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team was on a road trip to Boston when pitcher Brett Myers was arrested on domestic violence charges. There were witnesses who saw Myers hit his wife in the face. But Myers was chosen to play just one day later because, as the team’s…
Tag: violence against women
Men say the darndest things about women’s sport
Foul Play: Edition 5 The FIFA Women’s World Cup has been a cracking tournament and a revelation for many sports fans. It has also been an invitation, apparently, for some pretty base commentary about women’s sporting abilities. On ESPN, for instance, Stephen A. Smith had a theory as to why Germany’s defenders failed to stop a…
The assault we all saw that never happened
Foul Play: Edition 4 We’ve all seen the footage. First there was the video of the star footballer dragging his fiancee from a casino elevator and dropping her on the carpet like a sack of spuds. Weeks later, we were shown what transpired in the elevator, the thrust of Ray Rice’s fist that rendered Janay…
Don’t indulge this monster
Foul Play: Edition 3 Mariah Carey had a selfie taken last week. No surprises there. It’s every self-respecting celebrity’s stock in trade. But this one was with a serial abuser of women. Which seems an odd choice for someone who has lived the hell of an abusive relationship. Except, Floyd Mayweather is the world’s highest…
Golf Digest way out of bounds
Foul Play: Edition 2 The latest Golf Digest features golf pro Lexi Thompson on the cover. Excellent, you think, that’s a shot in the arm for women’s sport. Before you get too excited, take a look. That’s Thompson in the bottom left hand corner, naked from the waist up save for a strategically placed gym…
Introducing Foul Play
Reading through a multitude of sports stories each day, there’s one thing I can always find in the news feed that shouldn’t be there. Among the match reports and the on-field highs and lows, there will invariably be a story about an alleged assault by a sportsman, coach or spectator against a woman, women, girl…
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