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When I read Jeff Pearlman's piece about the possible loss of the cross country team at the University of Delaware, I couldn't help but think about one of the greatest long distance runners in NCAA history --Steve Prefontaine of the University of Oregon.
I did some digging around YouTube and found some incredible footage of Prefontaine from the late ...
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Over and over again we've been warning about how quota advocates are determined to apply the Title IX's strict quota regime to high school athletics. Just a few weeks ago we pointed to a story in Pennsylvania where the mere formation of a football booster club triggered a federal investigation.
Now we're seeing evidence of one school district just ...
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Central Iowa Lacrosse has some thoughts about how Title IX is strangling the sport at the collegiate level.
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Walter Dix is one heck of an athlete. Watch him win the 2008 NCAA Division I Championship in the 200 Meters in this video.
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Yet another reminder from one of our friends that Myles Brand can't have it both ways.
UPDATE: Allison Kasic reminds the readers of National Review Online too.
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Paul Ogden on the Myles Brand Title IX Whitewash:
Regardless of whether Title IX is a good thing or bad thing, Brand has no business encouraging academic institutions to be anything less than honest when it comes to explaining the cuts.
Then again, as we've seen with quota advocates, honesty is often in short supply.
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Our friends Alison Kasic and Amy Watson of the Independent Women's Forum recently had a conversation about the compliance trap set up by quota advocates when it comes to Title IX enforcement. Click here to listen and here (MP3) to download.
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It's an idea that the University of Missouri seems willing to try.
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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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