{"id":16123,"date":"2015-06-11T09:12:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=16123"},"modified":"2015-06-11T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:12:49","slug":"video-women-in-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/video-women-in-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Women in Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lukas J. Voss<\/p>\n<p>Women have increasingly been part of the sports world. Professional sports, college athletics and the media. All fields in which women have made long strides during the last decade. 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