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The uproar over the IOC's decision to cut wrestling from the Olympic games has continued for weeks. And it's no wonder. There are many reasons why this decision hurts the Olympic brand and negatively affects millions of young athletes around the globe.
Eric Pearson, Chairman of the American Sports Council, explores these issues in the Daily Caller. He ...
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Although the ASC's coalition of sports doesn't include motor sports, some of us are auto racing fans. So we'd like to congratulate Danica Patrick on her recent qualifying time that earned her pole position for the 2013 Daytona 500.
Danica deserves tremendous praise for her accomplishment. We'd like to point out that Title IX had nothing to do with her ...
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This week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to drop wrestling as an Olympic sport. This devastating decision comes after years of challenging times for our nation's wrestlers, who, despite facing a large brunt of the cuts due to Title IX proportionality, have remained resilient.
Here's an official response:
The ancient sport of wrestling ...
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Some good news for the men's soccer players at Lincoln Land Community College: their team won't be dropped due to public outcry.
The State Journal-Register reports:
The Lincoln Land Community College men’s soccer team was in danger of being cut until the school announced Tuesday it will continue the program.
LLCC bowed to public pressure and ...
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The State-Journal Register reports that Lincoln Land Community may drop men's soccer for men's golf. Why? Well the number of male athletes at the school, of course:
A proposal to terminate the men’s soccer program at Lincoln Land Community College and replace it with men’s golf will go before the school’s board of trustees next week.
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The last we heard from parents in New Mexico dealing with new booster club regulations, they were frustrated. Upset that their hard-earned voluntary donations would likely impact their kids' sports less if pooled together, discouraged from participating in club activities, concerned about bureaucratic interference.
Well, their sentiment hasn't changed ...
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The Daily Reville, the student newspaper at Louisiana State University (LSU), claims that "antiquated Title IX laws [are] keeping LSU from a men's soccer program."
We agree. The overwhelming evidence, including our 2008 analysis of soccer disparities in Division I schools, proves that proportionality harms men's soccer on numerous fronts.
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Booster club parents and volunteers in New Mexico high schools have become unsatisfied with and deterred by overzealous Title IX court rulings and state law that require evenly distributing private earmarked donations among all activities. As we warned last year, pooled donations will dwindle total contributions as parents realize that they'll have minimal ...
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The media is understandably frenzied over the University of Maryland's decision to join the Big 10 conference, but its short-term memory lapse over the University's elimination of 7 teams, apparent in today's excited coverage, is unacceptable.
Only four months ago, the school cemented recommendations from the President's Commission to get rid of a ...
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Mount St. Mary's University is the latest school to announce Title IX cuts, dropping men's soccer and men's and women's golf. The university administrators offered the usual explanation — financial constraints — and threw in the typical caveat about their long-term commitment to Title IX ("something we take very seriously and keeps us within our ...
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