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In arguments over the implementation of Title IX in athletics, it's easy for the debate to get heated and for feelings to get bruised. With that in mind, I'd like to introduce everyone to Kathy DeBoer, the Executive Director of the American Volleyball Coaches Association. A year ago, DeBoer sat for an interview with the NCAA coinciding with the 35th ...
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Last week we linked to a fond rememberance of the baseball program at the University of Wisconsin. This week, Derek Zeitlin, a sophomore at UW, is calling for the sport's reinstatement. Unfortunately, as we all know, in this era of Title IX, schools just don't add men's sports anymore, they just eliminate them.
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Over at Laney College outside of Oakland, California, the administration has decided to eliminate the Softball program in favor of Women's Basketball because of demand. Fair enough, though the folks here at CSC are never happy when they see programs canceled.
That same school would like to add Men's Soccer too, but can't:
"The community has said, 'We ...
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Texas Swimming has more to say about the bloodletting in the athletic department at URI:
In case there are two or three of you out there that still thinks it's a budget issue, get a load of this:
The 2008 men's swim team roster consists of 23 guys. The women are carrying a whopping 42 gals!
Which team do you think costs the most to keep? It's really ...
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From Let's Play Hockey:
The College Hockey America (CHA) conference will be down to four teams now that Wayne State has discontinued varsity hockey. That also means there will no longer be an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the league. The four remaining teams (Bemidji State, Alabama-Huntsville, Robert Morris and Niagara) are solid but need two ...
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The toll: Men's Tennis, Men's Swimming, Field Hockey and Gymnastics.
Texas Swimming is apoplectic:
The University of Rhode Island is dropping men’s swimming.
It’s supposed to be a cost-cutting move, but the savings will be minimal.
Consider that the coaching staff is the same for both squads (little or no savings there), the schedule is identi...
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Brian Liscovitz, a student at the University of Illinois is a member of an endangered species -- he's a male gymnast:
The sport of boys gymnastics has long vanished from New Jersey's high school scene and it is vanishing from the college landscape as well. Title IX and budget cuts, sometimes working in concert, have reduced the NCAA ranks from 120 ...
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A view from the Madison Commons.
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Here's an incredible absurdity: A school offering weight lifting for girls, but not for boys.
The reason? I'll give you one guess.
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I came across the following inside a Q&A between Cokie Roberts and Billie Jean King that ran over the weekend in the USA Today weekend magazine. It had me shaking my head:
Why don't women attend sporting events like women's basketball games?
Because they don't get it. Here's how a guy looks at a ticket: "I'll buy a season ticket, and I'll worry ...
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