Word: jacksonism
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...city ball field for practice. During one drill, a lineman lurched at the running back, nipped his jersey and bear-hugged nothing but Big Easy air. The coach blew a whistle in disgust and stomped toward the offensive tackler. "When are you going to hit him?" barked Tomaris Bolds-Jackson, 38, a mother of four. "You have to hit him. You're playing football...
...Bolds-Jackson is one rare instructor. With the growth of girls' sports over the past 30 years, female coaches have become increasingly common in most sports--some guiding high school and college squads, others leading a daughter's youth-soccer team to a title. Last season 12% of the Youth Basketball Organization's 4,300 coaching members were women, which is double the percentage five years earlier. Over the same period, the percentage of female coaches in U.S. youth soccer grew from about...
...women. And only one high school in America--George Washington in New York City--has a female head football coach. This isn't shocking, given that few girls actually grace the gridiron. Still, the National Football League (NFL) is eager to address the shortage, starting with moms like Bolds-Jackson in New Orleans...
...telling that to Bolds-Jackson, a teacher's aide who sees her future in football. After finishing a lecture on blocking stance ("Your head should be looking forward ... Squat!"), she stands in an empty changing area, vowing that her goal is a high school coaching job--and a championship. "I want one of those rings on my finger," she says, "and I'm going to keep coaching until...
...star-studded Nativity scene at London wax museum MADAME TUSSAUDS elevated soccer god David Beckham to biblical status last week, exhibiting wax figures of him and his wife Victoria, a.k.a. Posh Spice, as Joseph and Mary. As pop singer Kylie Minogue hovers angelically, Hugh Grant and Samuel L. Jackson appear as shepherds while Tony Blair, George W. Bush and Prince Philip portray wise men in the display, which will stay up until January. The Vatican has called the scene blasphemous. And with Posh as the Virgin, the church may have a point...