In a press conference following the match, one verbally careless member of the media asked Williams how she felt about going down in sports history as "one of the greatest female athletes of all time," to which she gave a bold and powerful response.
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On Wednesday, ESPN released the full gallery of portraits featured in the upcoming 2016 body issue of ESPN the Magazine. The issue features famous bodies in all of their naked, athletic glory, and the shared images are raw, gorgeous and inclusive.
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The Israeli men’s Cross Fit team just made an awesome statement on gender fluidity and clothing in sports ... completely by accident.
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ESPN magazine’s annual Body Issue showcases some of the world’s most celebrated athletes in all their chiseled, well-toned glory. Yet it’s also become an opportunity to interrogate American standards of beauty. For instance, the magazine has featured Brittney Griner, who faced a wealth of controversy over her gender.
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Where to begin with this? Besides the utter sexism in treating women as things that need to be “wifed up,” the premise of the shirt isn’t even true. One easy-to-find statistic strikes this shirt out.
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Principal Dan Frank at Jupiter High School in Florida canceled its annual powder puff girls' tackle football game. His reason for canceling the nearly 50-year-old tradition? The pads and helmets couldn't keep the girls "safe.” Uh Dan, try to make your sexism and double standards at least a little less obvious.
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This woman perfectly shut down a sexist dude who tried to question her baseball knowledge and it was perfectly punny. So how did the guy react?
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Kanya Sesser is not your average 23-year-old woman. She was born without legs and began her life deserted on the steps of a Thai Buddhist temple. It was a rough start, to be sure. But Sesser didn't let that stop her from becoming a Los Angeles-based lingerie model and finding success.
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Mic spoke to a handful of diverse yogis, ranging in body type and genders. Their concerns for yoga clothes, it turns out, are based around a simple premise: clothes that allow an individual to practice yoga in comfort and ease, with the acknowledgment that all bodies are different. They’re harder to find than you’d think.
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