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Bob Wuornos | National Review
This weekend, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is gathering outside Washington, D.C., for its annual convention. The weather outside is cold, but the debate inside is likely to get quite heated, as the major conference commissioners embark on a series of decisions that could shake the very foundations of ...
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In his commentary, The Future of Other College Sports, published in the National Review Online, Dr. Bob Wuornos, founder of the Men's Intercollegiate Gymnastics Support Program (MIGSP) offers some clear insight into both the dilemma and opportunity presented by the NCAA rule change that allows Division I schools to pay athletes stipends. Too few sports ...
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ASC launches EducationAndAthletics.org a new resource center for the 'paying players' issue. The micro-site includes the ASC's Declaration of Principles relating to the paying players issue.
Here is where the ASC stands.
Declaration of Principles- Education and Athletics
The ASC believes that true value of college athletics is not found in crowd ...
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One of the Women's Sports Foundation's favorite and often cited economists, Andrew Zimbalist of Smith College, has called for a Presidential Commission to address the recent crisis in NCAA Division I sports triggered by the paying players issue.
In his article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, professor Zimbalist doesn't offer any ideas for an ...
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Addition of Respected Figure in U.S. College Soccer Underscores Damage Title IX Doing to Men's Game
With the men's college soccer world gathering in Cary, N.C. this week for the NCAA College Cup, the American Sports Council (ASC) is pleased to announce the addition of Richard Broad to its board of directors.
Richard Broad is a nationally known ...
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One of the hottest trending topics now in college sports is the discussion about schools paying athletes stipends in addition to their scholarships. The NCAA has opened the possibility for schools to pay athletes with the recently proposed Division I Board of Directors governance restructuring. The issue picked up additional momentum recently when the ...
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For years, the ASC warned that gender quota advocates would insist on the enforcement of Title IX's Three Part Test in high school sports. Unfortunately, that prediction has recently become fact.
Now our warning is this: Watch out collegiate club and intramural sports. You are next!
According to a news story posted last week by the National Intramur...
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We at the ASC are proud to share the news that on September 21st our own H. Clay McEldowney was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, NJ Chapter as 'Outstanding American.'
When asked at his induction ceremony what he sees as the greatest challenges facing the sport of wrestling, McEldowney listed Title IX's gender quota, which results in ...
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The followers of the American Sports Council (ASC) will recall that we've been warning for years that gender quota activists were setting their sights on applying Title IX's proportionality rule to high school sports. Now, with a recent federal court ruling, that day has come.
In a September 19, 2014 decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth ...
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Temple University Cites Title IX in Decision to Drop Seven Sports Teams
The alarming trend of gutting university athletic programs in order to comply with Title IX's rigid gender quotas has claimed more victims. The latest casualties come from Temple University in Philadelphia. Yesterday, the school announced that it was canceling seven sports, including ...
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