Saving Sports

Blog of the American Sports Council.

Cal Baseball Reinstated

Great news out of the Bay Area. After raising almost $10 million, Cal has decided to reinstate its baseball team. Here's the Facebook message I got from Doug Nickle just a few minutes ago: Congratulations to Doug and the entire Cal baseball community. More later. More

Cal Administration Demanding Team Raise Another $1 million Before Reinstatement

I just got the following message from Doug Nickle at Save Cal Baseball: Something tells me that they'll make it. Here's hoping we get some happy news from the school before the end of the academic year. More

Meet Karen Owoc

Just yesterday, we posted a link to a piece from Congressional Quarterly Research (click here for a blog post by CQ summarizing their larger report on Title IX) that was written by Karen Owoc, a member of the College Sports Council's Advisory Board. After some nastiness on Twitter (something for which an apology has been ... More

Cutting Wrestling Not Enough, More Men’s Athletic Cuts to Come at Liberty

While the wrestling community can't help but be upset at the news that Liberty University decided to eliminate its wrestling program in order to help with Title IX compliance, you have to at least credit AD Jeff Barber for being honest about what he's up to. The math at Liberty is pretty simple. The student body is ... More

Some Common Sense Ideas on Title IX Reform from Beau Dure

Earlier today, the College Sports Council got into another sharp exchange on Twitter that, in the end, might have actually produced something productive. While you can read about the details yourself at Sportsmyriad, a blog run by ex-USA Today reporter Beau Dure, I'd like to focus on some of the ideas that Dure proposed ... More

Hands Off My Booster Club

It's hard to think of a better example of federal overreach in the area of Title IX than the regulation of athletic booster clubs. Over the past few years, we've seen plenty of examples of parents being forced to leap through legal hoops to satisfy the folks in Washington. Just this morning, I read a story from Pennsylva... More

Wayne State Braces for Title IX Investigation

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help." Ronald Reagan There are few more unwelcome pieces of news for an athletic director than when the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights comes calling about a Title IX investigation. That's probably why ... More

Temple Dedicates Varsity 8 Shell to CSC Advisory Board Member Jason Read

From Temple University: PHILADELPHIA – Temple University dedicated a new Varsity 8 shell today to one of its all-time great rowers, Jason Read, Friday. The dedication of the Jason “JR” Read shell took place at the Temple Boathouse Launch area and the new shell will be utilized by the Owls' Varsity 8 starting with ... More

Karen Owoc on How Title IX Harms Men’s Sports

Karen Owoc, an Advisory Board Member of the College Sports Council, recently wrote an essay for Congressional Quarterly on how Title IX has harmed men's athletics. The full text is below. Title IX is a good law. The way it’s regulated, however, is not only unfair but unconstitutional. The law precisely states that ... More

The Truth About BCS Football Profits and Title IX

One canard that gets repeated a lot by supporters of gender quotas is that Title IX isn't really the problem when it comes to the elimination of men's sports. Instead, as you can see above in a tweet from just a few hours ago, they argue that the real problem is all of the money schools spend on big time football, and to a ... More