Increasingly, according to athletes, coaches and women's sports activists, women are seeking challenges to explore the full potential of their skills.
"Talk to women who have been in the trenches and there is great fear," Donna de Varona, the women's sports activist and a member of the traveling panel, said recently.
"There's a loyalty that has been built up over the years for a team like the Giants in Fairfield County," said Herb Kohn, a longtime Stamford sports activist who has had season tickets for Giants' home games since 1955.
One LGBT sports activist recently told me that their plans to host a gay-themed house in Sochi were scrapped when a sympathetic Russian official told them the house would be burned down by a mob the first day it opened.
EMILY BIUSO __________ ADAM WERBACH: A few years ago, Adam Werbach looked like many other environmental activists — sporting polar fleece and guzzling fair-trade coffee in a windowless basement office.
But the project has kicked up a big local fuss, and exposed the rival aspirations of well-heeled locals, green activists, sporting professionals and those who want Paris to be a world city.Other grand-slam venues have already had an upgrade.
As the event wound down on Saturday, young activists, sporting their proudly CPAC lanyards and Stand With Rand pins, came out to confront the demonstrations, starting a chanting duel that quickly devolved into heated arguments on the sidewalk outside the convention center.
There are nonetheless plenty of talk show hosts who disagree with Mr. Hannity and Mr. Medved, as was clear at the Phoenix Park Hotel, where the hosts and activists sported "Border Security Now!" buttons.
MADISON, a liberal college town that doubles as the capital of a politically complicated state, pulls its disparate elements together into a spirited reality all its own, a funky amalgam of hard-partying students, socially conscious activists, sports fans, outdoor warriors, politicos from both sides of the aisle, artists, foodies and more.
"Uncovering greenwashing is an Olympic sport amongst environmental activists.
