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With Title IX leading to the elimination of so many programs, this fan can't help but worry about the future of the sport.
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Over at Because I Played Sports, there's a spirited debate over what Myles Brand really meant last week. Our own Jim McCarthy makes an appearance. Please stop by and participate -- but keep it respectful.
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Details from the Weatherford Democrat.
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A discussion at Texas Swimming.
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We found this in our mailbox this morning:
Our website, Lax For Connecticut is dedicated to bringing back Division I Men's Lacrosse to the University of Connecticut. UConn had Division I Men's Lacrosse up until 1983 when it was Title IX'd.
UConn currently has DI Women's Lacrosse, but only club for Men. In my opinion this situation somewhat mirrors ...
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Cordel Andersen was one heck of a high school and college wrestler. At Preston High School in Utah, he was named a Prep All-American by Wrestling USA Magazine before going on to become a two-time All-American wrestler at Utah State -- a school where the sport has since be eliminated.
Recently Andersen was inducted into the Utah Wrestling Hall of Fame ...
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I found the following item buried in a story about a local board of education meeting in Colorado. The following comes from the Brush News-Tribune:
Miles also addressed funds for athletics, stating, “It has been said that a donation is unaccounted for or has been put somewhere else.”
The $2,307.51 donation from the Morgan County Volleyball Juniors ...
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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 couple of weeks ago we pointed to a story at Delaware Online that the men's cross country and track and field teams were in danger of being cut at the University of Delaware. A little while later, we shared an opinion piece written by a member of the women's cross country team pleading that the team be spared.
And now, earlier today, the story has ...
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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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