Saving Sports

Blog of the American Sports Council.

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 ... 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. ... 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 ... More

Kathy DeBoer on Title IX

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 ... More

Another Call for Baseball at the University of Wisconsin

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. More

At Laney College, Men’s Soccer Will Have to Wait

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 ... More

More From URI

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 ... More

Title IX Pinches College Hockey

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 ... More

The Title IX Axe Falls at URI

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 ... More

On The Title IX Endangered List: Men’s Gymnastics

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 ... More