Blog posts by Carrie Dunn: 2009
Strictly all-female
By Carrie Dunn | 16 November 2009, 15:47
If you’re a follower of Saturday night light entertainment, you’ll probably know that Bruce Forsyth had to pull out of hosting Strictly Come Dancing this weekend because he has flu. The BBC announced this on Friday morning, saying that his…
England v Netherlands in Euro 2009; national newspaper website has live text commentary
By Carrie Dunn | 6 September 2009, 17:28
Just a quick post - England’s women footballers are playing the Netherlands in the first semi-final of the Euro 2009 tournament. Times Online are running live text commentary (by me!) if you want to pop along and see what’s happening….
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England win World Twenty20 - where is their recognition?
By Carrie Dunn | 21 June 2009, 15:29
England’s women won the World Twenty20 at Lord’s this morning, with Claire Taylor - Wisden’s first female cricketer of the year - scoring the runs to secure the victory. They add the World Twenty20 title to the World Cup they…
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ECB appoint female advisors
By Carrie Dunn | 10 June 2009, 16:47
After the England women showed the men how it’s done during March’s World Cup, the ECB have acknowledged that cricket is a fast-growing sport for women by appointing two female board advisors for the first time EVER. Jane Stichbury, CBE…
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Anastasia Dobromyslova back in darting action
By Carrie Dunn | 5 June 2009, 13:29
Remember Anastasia Dobromyslova, the darts player who appalled Wayne Mardle by giving him a run for his money? “It is hard for any man to play a lady,” the Sky Sports pundit has just commented. Anyway, she was in action…
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Claire Taylor named Wisden Cricketer of the Year
By Carrie Dunn | 3 April 2009, 11:48
The brilliant Claire Taylor, leading scorer in the England World Cup victory last month, has been named one of Wisden’s five cricketers of the year. She’s the first woman in the award’s 120-year history to be given the accolade. Well…
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England team in World Cup final
By Carrie Dunn | 20 March 2009, 20:31
The women’s cricket team take on New Zealand on Saturday night/Sunday morning (live on Sky Sports, mark you), and have been immense not just in this tournament but over recent years. As you’d expect, the England women aren’t professional cricketers,…
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Sport is a whore. And female
By Carrie Dunn | 20 February 2009, 22:03
Remember this little spotlight on the Times’s sports coverage last year? Well, Simon Barnes - the well-known appreciator of Russian pole vaulter Elena Isinbaeva - has written about the ongoing Allen Stanford saga. Fair enough. Except apparently the whole debacle…
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Just another taxi ride…
By Carrie Dunn | 8 February 2009, 18:13
I was travelling home on Wednesday night, and hailed a Hackney carriage (a proper black cab, fully licenced, with the driver’s ID displayed etc etc) by West Hampstead station in north-west London to take me the short ride back to…
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Bad science? Bad gender politics?
By Carrie Dunn | 3 February 2009, 17:55
I love reading Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science columns. Though I may be one of the arts graduates he scoffs at from time to time, my PhD does involve quantitative data analysis so I’m not entirely scientifically illiterate. So I was…
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