Category: Original
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Ellyn Ritterskamp: My sporting life
This is the third story in the SLR Original series on Title IX (See previous) Now that you know more about the story that launched this project, and before you learn more about others’ stories, you should hear about mine. I played Little League baseball for a month when I was nine, in the summer…
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Judy Murphy: A track athlete who says ‘hurray for ballet’
This is the second story in the SLR Original series on Title IX (See previous) I joined a game show message board in 1999, when “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” was the hottest thing on primetime television. Judy Murphy, now in her 70s, was another member of the group, and we both eventually played…
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Susan Shackelford: ‘She has her own ball, and it’s a good one’
This is the first story in the SLR Original series on Title IX. A sports journalist and historian who co-authored a book about the history of women’s basketball, Susan Shackelford watched the development of Title IX rules in real time as a student journalist at the University of North Carolina. In her own words here she…
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The ripples of Title IX and the women who played in its wake
The stories of 10 women (and one girl) whose lives have been changed by the impacts of Title IX.
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What would I have done?
The last time I saw my grandfather, he did not remember me. It was November two years ago and we were in Dallas. When my mother drove us from the airport, the brightness and flatness of most things disoriented me. The light was nearly white, the sky a single shade of blue. In the car,…
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Q&A: Reporter Ken Armstrong Talks Netflix’s ‘Unbelievable’
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