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Never throw like a girl

By Whitney Casey
Special to Page 2

Monday, October 6, 2003

Every woman should know how to throw a football. What went wrong? Didn't we all go to the same P.E. class? I don't remember any of my gym teachers demonstrating this slightly-spasmodic, gawky, elbow-first, same-footed phenomenon otherwise known as"girl throw." So how does it happen? When I posed this question to a group of twenty-something guys, this seemed to be the consensus (and sarcastic, I assume) answer: "Girl throw" occurs because guys and girls are somehow born with different kinds of ...

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