You Throw Like a Girl

You Throw Like a Girl

Welcome to “You Throw Like a Girl”, a show all about women in the sports media industry breaking the mold. I’m your host, Maggie Robinson and I’m so excited to share these stories with you. From a New York Times Best Selling Author to an NBA play-by-play announcer to the leading academics in the field of sports and gender, this podcast covers it all, nothing is off limits. Come with me as I unpack gendered stereotypes and find out what it’s really like to be a woman in the male-dominated sports industry.

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May 1, 2023 62 mins

Emily Proud was a four-year D1 student-athlete on the women's soccer team at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, majoring in Journalism and wrote for the Belmont Vision, the school's newspaper. She then went on to work as a sports anchor at a Knoxville ABC News affiliate covering all sports for the University of Tennessee before moving back to Nashville to work for WKRN as a sports and weekend news anchor. She's curren...

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Lauren Rosen was a four-year cheerleader at Duke University where she worked as a production runner for ESPN and was first introduced to high-level basketball. She then went on to get her Master's in Journalism at Northwestern University before working her way up to team reporter for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. She co-hosts The Big Niang Theory Podcast with Georges Niang, writes stories for the 76ers website, and conducts...

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Dr. Courney Cox is an assistant professor in the Department of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, where she focuses on the relationship between gender and sports. She worked as a production assistant at ESPN's Bristol, CT headquarters before getting her Master's in Journalism at the University of Texas. She then worked for the WNBA's LA Sparks, an NPR affiliate in Pasadena, CA, and completed her Ph....

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Mirin Fader is a senior sports writer at The Ringer and Bleacher Report and the New York Times best-selling author of the book, "Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP". She has profiled some of the most interesting and well-known professional athletes like LaMelo Ball, DeMar DeRozan, Tyler Skaggs, Breanna Stewart, Mikaela Shiffrin and so many more. She's currently working on a new book "DREAM" a biograp...

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If you watch basketball at all, you're familiar with her, Kate Scott is the voice of the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA, but she didn't start there. Kate was the first woman to call an NFL game on the radio, the first woman to call Pac-12 football was a member of the first all-female broadcast team for the NHL, was the first woman to call a Golden State Warriors, and called the Olympic men's and women's basketball on...

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Perry Johnson is a post-doctoral fellow at The University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communications. She previously got her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School, and her research focuses on music, popular culture, power, identity, and belonging. She is the co-host of the Soundig Off podcast and co-creator (along with interviewee Dr. Courtney Cox!) of "The Sound o...

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Betty is a trailblazer and icon in women's collegiate sports. She created one of the first collegiate women's basketball programs in the Southeast at Belmont University in 1968. That's four years before Title IX was passed (before Vanderbilt and the University of Tennessee had teams!). She talks about growing up on a farm in rural Tennessee, what it was like being a woman in sports in the 60s & 70s, and how she'...

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Welcome to “You Throw Like a Girl”, a show all about women in the sports media industry breaking the mold. I’m your host, Maggie Robinson and I’m so excited to share these stories with you. From a New York Times Best Selling Author to an NBA play-by-play announcer to the leading academics in the field of sports and gender, this podcast covers it all, nothing is off limits. Join me as I unpack gendered stereotypes and find out what ...

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