Sport Timeline

The participation of women has increased since Title IX however, the media coverage between male and female athletes is still unequal and different. Women are photographed out of their athletic environment, sexualized, mostly "pretty" women are photographed and not "ugly," pregnant, or disabled...

On April 24, 1996, women’s basketball announced “We Got Next” as the NBA Board of Governors approved the concept of a Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) to begin play in June 1997.
We Got Game . . .

Women’s basketball has come a long way since its beginnings in 1892...

Started by Art Davie & Rorion Gracie and considered today's one of the fastest growing sports today Mixed Martial Arts has always been around but it wasn't until the Ultimate Fighting Championships that really jumped started the sport. The first ever UFC event had introduced some brutal...

In 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A total of 65 nations refused to participate in the games, whereas 80 countries sent athletes to compete.

Organization founded in 1974 by tennis legend Billie Jean King. Its stated mission statement is "To advance the lives of girls and women through sports and physical activity."

"In June 1972, President Nixon signed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §1681 et seq., into law. Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. The principle objective of Title...

The 1st International Special Olympic Summer Games was made up of 1000 athletes from 26 U.S. States and Canada. The Athletes Competed in Track and Field, Swimming, and Floor Hockey.

The 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games are held in Athens, Greece. Nearly 7,000 athletes from 170...

The integration of college and professional sports in the U.S. went hand in hand with the Black assertiveness that began during World War II. And if the period 1960-62 is called the Civil Rights Era and the Second Reconstruction, those nomenclatures were most dramatically demonstrated in the...

An incredibly important court decision that declared separating blacks and whites in public schools unconstitutional. It also granted black students equal educational opportunities as white students.

In 1952, as a result of the expressed desires of the member institutions, appropriate steps were taken by which the NAIB was transformed into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and the first all-encompassing set of rules and standards was adopted. Recommendations to...

Although a few black players had been allowed to play professional sports before 1946, it was not until Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to play major league baseball that the racial barrier broke in all professional sports. Because of this event, Jackie Robinson is...

Girls professional baseball was established primarily as a substitute form of entertainment while the professional male players were off fighting a war.The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was established with four teams and eventually grew to eight teams, but it disbanded in 1954...