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Women’s World Cup Soccer: Media Coverage and Players’ Pay Still Unequal

Monday, June 10, 2019 at 7:53 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

The media covered so much promotional hype for the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup in Russia that, by the time play got under way, the matches seemed anticlimactic. By contrast, the media covered so little of the same for this 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France that most people probably had no idea when… Read more.

Belated, fickle interest in Women’s World Cup

Friday, July 15, 2011 at 5:11 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

It would be easy to blame media focus on stories like the Casey Anthony murder trial, the UK phone-hacking scandal, or even the political bickering over America’s debt ceiling for the relative lack of coverage of this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup in Germany. This quadrennial soccer tournament has actually been playing out over the… Read more.