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The sports section of today's New York Times provided a real spit up your coffee moment this morning while I was reading a Bill Pennington piece entitled, "Dropped from Varsity Lineup, but no Longer Grumbling". I'll let you read the following passage, but to me, the argument seems to be that for some male athletes, separate but equal is just fine -- an ...
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Yesterday we pointed at an article over at ESPN.com where University of Delaware alum and former cross country runner Jeff Pearlman made the case for the school to save the programs from cuts that will probably be required in order to keep the school in compliance with the proportionality prong of Title IX.
Today, I stopped by that space on the Web ...
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A small knot of College Sports Council supporters are in Washington, DC today and we're shaking our heads after reading the following story in today's edition ofUSA Today:
NCAA's Brand: Don't fault Title IX for future cuts
By Erik Brady, USA TODAY
NCAA President Myles Brand has a message for member institutions: Don't blame Title IX.
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The students and faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University are currently involved in a debate over whether or not to add a varsity football program at the school. Kristine Newhall at the Title IX blog approvingly quoted Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist Paul Woody as he used the news as an opportunity to engage in some revisionist history:
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Somehow we missed this news a couple of weeks back, but it seems as if the administration at Bemidji State in Minnesota is prepared to take the advice of a Title IX consultant and eliminate the school's men's track and field program. In response, Andy Eggerth, an assistant track coach at Kansas State University, is suggesting the school find another path ...
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Though we missed this last week, we would be remiss not to take a moment to note that an Oregon state judge rejected a law suit filed to force the University of Oregon to retain its men's wrestling program. Here's a passage from the blog Save Oregon Wrestling that's awfully telling:
In a decision dated October 22, 2008, and received today, Judge Lynn E. ...
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As we've seen from some of the posts we've linked to recently, the use of pretzel-bending logic to justify the misapplication of Title IX in college athletics can be mind-numbing to say the least. Here's yet another example, this time from West Virginia University student newspaper, The Daily Athenaeum, as it told the story of how the school wrung ...
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Over at National Review Online, Allison Kasic of the Independent Women's Forum is taking a look at the latest athletic cuts at Arizona State:
Title IX proponents have long stated that schools can comply with the law by adding sports for women, without a negative impact on men’s teams. Unfortunately, reality tells a different tale. With the current ...
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By now, much of the college sports community has heard the news out of Arizona State University, where three men's athletic programs -- swimming, wrestling and tennis -- were eliminated in a midnight massacre where the school's administration couldn't even be bothered to notify the students and coaching staff in person.
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Thanks to working on the announcement of yesterday's study on Title IX and historically black colleges and universities, I had the distinct pleasure of getting to know Reggie Torrence. Reggie is an employee of Xerox and living in Washington, D.C. today, but six years ago he had just completed his sophomore year at Howard University while also competing as ...
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