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Are High Schools Next in the Title IX Crosshairs?

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 ... More

CSC Statement on WSF Study on Athletic Participation Rates

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 ... More

IWF Releases Title IX Primer

Our friends at IWF, Allison Kasic and Kimberly Schuld have just finished writing a primer on Title IX. Click here to download it. More

Don’t Believe Everything That You Read

Yesterday the Women's Sports Foundation released a report claiming that male athletes haven't been harmed by enforcement of Title IX. To say the least, the folks at the College Sports Council are more than a little bit flummoxed by that conclusion, given that we came to much the opposite conclusion back in 2007. H... More

Where Will America Find Its Next Generation of Olympic Athletes?

That's a question that Philip Hersh at the LA Times asked earlier this week: It no longer makes any difference whether the U.S. Olympic Committee was sandbagging or simply being realistic with its pre-Games pronouncements about medal hopes in Beijing. The significant thing is its analysis was exactly correct. So ... More

Olympic Greats John Naber, Peter Vidmar, Dan Gable and Cael Sanderson join with Actor Billy Baldwin Calling for ‘Common Sense’ reform of Title IX

Earlier today, the College Sports Council issued the following press release: Washington, D.C., August 4, 2008 – Over 25 U.S. Olympians and over 35 NCAA Champions have endorsed a College Sports Council petition calling on the U.S. Congress to enact common sense reform of the federal regulations governing Title IX ... More

The Cost of Title IX at Michigan State

Michigan State just celebrated the 8th straight year where it was in compliance with Title IX. So what's the cost nobody wants to talk about? How about the elimination of Men's Fencing, Lacrosse and Gymnastics? Better yet, the track and field team boasts 51 females, but only 39 men. Guess they won't be happy until all ... More

Title IX is Killing Men’s Soccer

Whenever folks talk about Women's Soccer in this country, it's inevitable that the incredible growth of the sport is attributed to the passage of Title IX. But what is that achievement going to be worth if in the process it means the destruction of Men's Soccer? Click here for more bad news from Utah. More

ASU Swimming Saved?

Details from Texas Swimming. More

Allison Kasic on Title IX’s Faults

Our friend Allison Kasic of the Independent Women's Forum has a piece in the Christian Science Monitor today on the downside of Title IX: The scope of Title IX has expanded dramatically through a combination of court cases and government policy interpretations (mostly through the US Department of Education). A 1979 ... More