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Yesterday, ESPN's Outside the Lines did a report on the recent elimination of football and wrestling at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. The school took the action as part of its planned move to Division I. At the time, the school said that the move would help with Title IX compliance in the future (click here for our initial reaction to that announcemen...
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Over the weekend, the New York Times published a letter to the editor from the mother of a competitive cheerleader that probably wasn't well received at the HQ of the Women's Sports Foundation on Long Island:
To the Sports Editor:
Re “Cutting Men’s Programs Now to Satisfy Title IX in Future,” May 2: By lumping cheerleading with drill team and ...
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Earlier this week, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review threw its support behind the effort to get the men's track and field team reinstated at the University of Delaware:
So cowed are colleges and universities by the "social justice" agenda behind Title IX -- the federal law banning sex discrimination in education -- that they're pre-emptively cutting men's ...
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Saving Sports, we've been following rumors about the elimination of the men's track and field team at the University of Delaware for about two and a half years. If you look through our archives, you'll see that we first took notice of the possibility of trouble back in November 2008. Over the weekend, the New York Times finally took a look at the ...
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At the College Sports Council, we support Title IX as written, and believe that over the years the original intent of the legislation has been horribly distorted. But we understand that not every critic of the law has come to that conclusion. One of those critics is Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution. After reading the story from last week's New York ...
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We just got the following message from Doug Nickle:
Congrats to the folks at Cal Gymnastics Foreverfor fighting back from the brink of extinction. It's great news for the school and even better news for men's college gymnastics. More later.
UPDATE: Here's the official word from the university. (bumped)
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Earlier today, the New York Times published a letter to the editor from College Sports Council President Leo Kocher. Kocher sent his letter in response to this week's story about Title IX and roster management.
To the Sports Editor:
The N.C.A.A.’s own data reveals that female college students, rather than being discriminated against, are afforded an ...
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Following up on the polling done by the New York Times on Title IX earlier this week, the folks over at Rasmussen Reports have done some additional work that has uncovered something that we've long suspected—a solid majority of Americans oppose the use of strict quotas to enforce Title IX in intercollegiate athletics.
The important information comes ...
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We're just about 36 hours past the publish time on Katie Thomas's horribly unbalanced piece on roster management and Title IX. The good news is that there are more than a few people who aren't buying her take on gender equity.
First, we ought to check in with Wendy Parker, whose take on the piece ought to be required reading for any Journalism 101 ...
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The following statement is an official response to the New York Times story that was published this morning concerning the use of roster management by schools to comply with Title IX. It can be attributed to Leo Kocher, President of the College Sports Council:
“Title IX has been turned into a gender quota law plain and simple, and it should not be a ...
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