484 Results for author: Saving Sports

What About Mothers of Boys?

Over at Glamocracy, Rebecca Roberts has some thoughts on Father's Day: On Mothers' Day, I wrote that I believe the responsibility of raising boys to respect women is as important as raising girls to respect themselves. This Fathers' Day, I've been thinking about fathers and daughters, and the responsibility fathers have to raise unapologetically ambiti... More

Allison Kasic on Title IX and Arizona State

Over at National Review Online, Allison Kasic of the Independent Women's Forum is taking a look at the latest athletic cuts at Arizona State: Title IX proponents have long stated that schools can comply with the law by adding sports for women, without a negative impact on men’s teams. Unfortunately, reality tells a different tale. With the current ... More

Save Oregon Wrestling Files Suit

Details at their Web site. Good luck, guys. More

Boosters Save ASU Wrestling

Congrats to the supporters of ASU Wrestling who stepped up and saved the program. More

New UNI Athletic Director Will Protect Men’s Sports

From The Gazette (Iowa): CEDAR FALLS — Troy Dannen vowed Tuesday that no men's sports programs at the University of Northern Iowa will be cut to solve the athletics department's problems with gender equity and financial issues. "Baseball is safe. Wrestling is safe. Every sport is safe," he told The Gazette after being introduced as UNI's director of ... More

The Seattle PI Fumbles on Women’s Wrestling

It must be silly season in the wake of yesterday's story in the New York Times concerning the rise of women's wrestling at the high school and collegiate level. Today, the Editorial Board at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer stepped into the breach created by the article in order to spew some more disinformation: For all the interest high school ... More

Getting it Wrong on Women’s Wrestling

In this morning's edition of the New York Times, reporter Katie Thomas tried to take a closer look at the growth of women's wrestling at the collegiate level. Unfortunately for the readers of the Times, this look at the sport fails to tell the whole story, falling back on tired old stereotypes and slanders against male coaches who have actually worked ... More

The AAUW and Distorting the Crisis in Educating Young Men

Earlier this week, the American Association of University Women published a study entitled, "Where the Girls Are: The Facts About Gender Equity in Education". And like the folks on the other side of the argument pointed out a few days back, it's really not about the girls, but rather it's aimed at debunking the claim that young men aren't being served ... More

The Title IX Headlock at Arizona State

By now, much of the college sports community has heard the news out of Arizona State University, where three men's athletic programs -- swimming, wrestling and tennis -- were eliminated in a midnight massacre where the school's administration couldn't even be bothered to notify the students and coaching staff in person. It's just business as usual when ... More

Howard University, Real Sports and African-Americans in Baseball

I just watched the most recent episode of Real Sports on HBO. One of the segments on the program was an interview with major league ballplayer Torri Hunter of the Los Angeles Angels. In that interview, Hunter laments the fact that only eight percent of all MLB players are African-Americans and that baseball was dying as a sport in America's inner ... More