Superbowl Trumps Squash On HBO
from DailySquashReport.com
January 22, 2012 - A squash segment scheduled to air tonight on the season premier of the HBO series "Real Sports With Bryant Gumble" has been postponed in favor of a feature on the Harbaugh brothers coaching against each other in the February 3rd Superbowl.
The squash segment involves correspondent Mary Carillo traveling to Pakistan and profiling WSA player Maria Toor Pakay and her connection to former world champion Jonathon Power of Toronto.
The HBO description of the segment is as follows:
"Talibanned"
Produced by Joe Levine
Maria Toor Pakay was born in 1990 in the lawless mountain region of northern Pakistan as a radical Islamic philosophy was taking root and women were restricted by Taliban leaders from doing many things, including playing sports. Encouraged by her father to pursue her interests, she posed as a boy and was soon one of the best young athletes in the country. Eventually revealing herself to be a woman, she became the national champion in her country's beloved sport of squash. After Taliban leaders threatened to kill her if she did not end her athletic career, Pakay received a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a world champion in the Western world. She is now one of the sport's rising stars and, more important, a symbol of resistance against oppression. Correspondent Mary Carillo travels to Pakistan for this captivating REAL SPORTS report.
from DailySquashReport.com
January 22, 2012 - A squash segment scheduled to air tonight on the season premier of the HBO series "Real Sports With Bryant Gumble" has been postponed in favor of a feature on the Harbaugh brothers coaching against each other in the February 3rd Superbowl.
The squash segment involves correspondent Mary Carillo traveling to Pakistan and profiling WSA player Maria Toor Pakay and her connection to former world champion Jonathon Power of Toronto.
The HBO description of the segment is as follows:
"Talibanned"
Produced by Joe Levine
Maria Toor Pakay was born in 1990 in the lawless mountain region of northern Pakistan as a radical Islamic philosophy was taking root and women were restricted by Taliban leaders from doing many things, including playing sports. Encouraged by her father to pursue her interests, she posed as a boy and was soon one of the best young athletes in the country. Eventually revealing herself to be a woman, she became the national champion in her country's beloved sport of squash. After Taliban leaders threatened to kill her if she did not end her athletic career, Pakay received a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a world champion in the Western world. She is now one of the sport's rising stars and, more important, a symbol of resistance against oppression. Correspondent Mary Carillo travels to Pakistan for this captivating REAL SPORTS report.
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