caster semenya;

oh man... oh woman?.. caster semenya is both. damn, the poor 18 year old runner from South Africa will have to now publicly go through her lot of being intersex.

this... in the 30s: Stella Walsh. but no one knew until Stella Walsh was accidently shot dead decades later. the autopsy revealed that she was not entirely all female.

nfl season is just about to start;

so here you go... get ready:

muslim women and boxing in india

Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about young Muslim women and boxing in India:

Boxing is one of several avenues that have opened up to poor Muslim women across a modernizing India, including careers with nonprofit organizations and in teaching. It reflects the changing role of women within their own communities, particularly in the past decade, says Sabiha Hussain, an associate professor who studies women's issues at Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi.

"They find (boxing) as a way of coming out from conservativeness. They have very limited role -- poor Muslim women -- in the public sphere. So these women, these boxers, they find a way to come out and this is an outlet for them to fight poverty," Ms. Hussain says.

Pretty cool.