I'm glad the New York Times is giving women's sports injuries some attention.

But, reading Sokolove's piece (adapted from his upcoming book, “Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women’s Sports,”) I did have some misgivings.

I found it intriguing that the day after the Sunday Magazine piece, the Times ran an article about a football player "Accepting the Costs of a Life in Football."

In the piece, former Cincinnati Bengals Reggie Williams who, years after his career, suffers pain and injury that threaten his leg and his life. Writes George Vecsey, "Williams knows that an alarming number of his peers are dying young, but he says he has no regrets about his violent occupation."

Thankfully, Title IX blog's response to the Times' piece on injuries was able to articulate my main concern:

The second concern is related to the tone of the piece. The cover art, of a girl with a bandaged head being bonked on the head with a soccer ball, with the words "Hurt Girls" above it, seems to diminish the female athletes, and at the same time not give a second thought to boys who suffer serious injuries in sports.