Sexism
This tournament in 2021 put on full display the differences in resources provided to men's and women's teams.
What is March Madness?
This debate over whether someone’s genes or training/upbringing is more important to athletic success continues to rage on today.
What is Nature vs. Nurture?
The NFL adopted this guideline in 2003 in hopes of diversifying the head coach hiring pool and actual hires.
What is the Rooney Rule?
Who is Allen Guttmann?
Believe it or not, muscle size does not correlate 1-to-1 with this feature.
This hormone is often wrongly considered to be the secret to athletic success.
What is testosterone?
This hormone may be critically important for endurance athletic success.
What is estrogen?
Ben Carrington analyzed Christianity, classics, and cricket as the three C's of this.
What is colonialism?
The highest paid athlete in 2021, according to Forbes.
Who is Conor McGregor?
The Magnaris study that gave fake performance enhancing drugs to weightlifters demonstrated that performance enhancing drugs might work because…
You think they will work
Because of a lack of research, we still do not know how this natural and regularly occurring process among some women affects athletic performance.
What is the menstrual cycle?
While sports are fundamentally built on this idea, scholars argue that there is no way that _____ has been achieved because of how discriminatory and exclusionary sports are.
What is fairness/fair play?
This clothing in soccer is an example of xenophobia and gendered Islamophobia that is often not part of conversations about the ways that women's sporting bodies are controlled.
What is the hijab ban?
The current leading researcher into trans athlete performance abilities.
Who is Joanna Harper?
Wide pelvis, short toes in line, long legs, and springy foot tendons are all features that give humans this ability.
What is really great bipedalism and running?
This is the only group of athletes who are subjected to natural testosterone level testing.
Who are women track athletes in events 1-mile or less?
At least 4 of the 7 characteristics of modern sport.
What are secularism, equality of opportunity to compete, specialization, rationalization, bureaucratic organization, quantification, records?
The idea that different races have the same ancestry.
What is monogenism?
This Paralympic runner was theorized as a "sporting space invader" when he was allowed to compete against able-bodied athletes.
Who is Oscar Pistorius?
The phase of throwing with the greatest risk of injury.
What is the deceleration phase? (will also accept late cocking)
For college game day coverage, ESPN often hires women for these roles, rather than for analyst roles.
Who are reporters?
This game, popular in a particular region of Spain, requires a ball and some kind of wall, and is usually only played by girls until they are 13-years-old.
What is Basque pelota?
This myth is one that is used to pit Asian-Americans against other minorities in the US, flatten differences within the diverse group, and uphold white supremacy.
This 14-year-old won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2021.
Who is Zaila Avant-garde?
These are the muscles of the rotator cuff. (4-part answer)
What are the subscapularis, teres minor, supraspinatus, and infraspinatus?