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We heard back by phone from Associated Press sports editor Terry Taylor about the problems we pointed out in reporter Melissa Murphy's story about a Women's Sports Foundation (WSF) study -- "Who's Playing College Sports? Money, Race and Gender -- that concluded male athletes hadn't been harmed by Title IX. Taylor was diligent in looking into the matter ...
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Stick It Media says yes:
Because men’s bodies mature later than women’s, men’s Division I programs are more important for Olympic development. NCAA programs for women are actually post-Olympics or on the separate "college track," rather than the elite track that goes international when the best female gymnasts are still in their teens. For this ...
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But Title IX may be in the way.
Not exactly a "shocker" (pun intended) is it?
Click here for Part I and here for Part II. For more on the effort to return football to Wichita State, visit Bring Back Shockers Football.
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Though you would have to fight all the way to the 19th paragraph of a Washington Post story by Amy Shipley on how boys and young men are outnumbered by females in American swimming, you would eventually find this rare admission about how Title IX has harmed the sport and depressed the number of male participants:
There is also the matter of opportunity: ...
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Yesterday, we passed along an article where College Sports Council Chairman Eric Pearson had this to say about the next frontier in Title IX enforcement:
While much of the Title IX enforcement centers on quotas, there are other huge red flags to be wary of, such as the reaction to some volunteer efforts and donations of parents and community members' for ...
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From Stick It Media:
Savings Sports blog has an interesting post about Title IX . One quote in particular caught StickItMedia’s eyes — "the NCAA cannot be considered an objective source. The NCAA leadership is on record as being closely aligned with groups fighting all forms of Title IX reform and has attempted to quash any debate about the effect of ...
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I'm sure most of you will recall that the College Sports Council had all sorts of problems with a study that was released recently by the Women's Sports Foundation entitled, “Who's Playing College Sports? Money, Race and Gender.” But while we had multiple concerns over the study, we were just as alarmed by the way some in the media chose to cover ...
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That's a question that Jennifer Kabbany asked today in the North County Times (CA):
"If every woman decided she didn't want to play sports, then the way this law is applied, there could be no men's sports whatsoever," Steven Gieseler, an attorney with the Sacramento-based Pacific Legal Foundation, SAID in a telephone interview.
While these quota ...
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The College Sports Council released the following statement earlier today:
Washington, D.C., September 26, 2008 – The College Sports Council (CSC), a national coalition of coaches, parents, athletes, and alumni, calls attention to unverifiable source data collected by the WSF and NCAA used in a recently released Women's Sports Foundation study titled...
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Our friends at IWF, Allison Kasic and Kimberly Schuld have just finished writing a primer on Title IX. Click here to download it.
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