Saving Sports

Blog of the American Sports Council.

Remembering Wisconsin Baseball

A view from the Madison Commons. More

High School Won’t Offer Weightlifting for Boys

Here's an incredible absurdity: A school offering weight lifting for girls, but not for boys. The reason? I'll give you one guess. More

So Who’s Insulting Women Now?

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 ... More

Remembering Montana Swimming

From the Montana Kaimin: Seven trophies sit in a single case, far from the six football cases that line the Hall of Champions in the Adams Center. Written on the glass is every year from 1966 to 1974, signifying nine men’s conference swimming titles that are long forgotten, lost in the shadows of 10 consecutive Big ... More

Title IX and Syracuse University

A few weeks ago, we noted how Syracuse University, a school in the middle of one of the most hockey-mad areas of the country was planning on adding women's ice hockey team, but not a men's team. Over at one blog that follows Syracuse University sports, one blogger has cracked the code when it comes to the devestating ... More

CSC Chairman Eric Pearson on Title IX Enforcement

On Sunday afternoon, ESPN2 aired a one hour program on the history of Title IX called, License to Thrive. In it, College Sports Council Chairman Eric Pearson talked about how the way Title IX is enforced has resulted in the elimination of a number of men's programs. A clip of his appearance is below. Also included in ... More

ESPN Ombudsman Responds to Save Oregon Wrestling Controversry

ESPN Ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber responded to our letter. Her response follows: Dear Eric, Thank you for your message. I asked for an explanation of why the SOW ad was first accepted, then rejected shortly before scheduled airing, and this is the answer I received from a department called Commercial Operations, the ... More

Letter to ESPN Ombudsman on Oregon Ad Cancellation

Earlier today I sent a letter on behalf of the College Sports Council to ESPN Ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber: Dear Ms. Schreiber: I am writing to you concerning ESPN's rejection of an advertisement that Save Oregon Wrestling (SOW) and one of our members, the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA), had contracted ... More

Wade Hughes Op Ed Kicks Up Some Dust

Both Alison Kasic and Robert VerBruggen took notice of the piece on Title IX and Historically Black Colleges and Universities that ran over at The Root earlier this week. Nice to see people notice the work Wade Hughes did. UPDATE: And more people keep noticing. Here too. More

Where’s The Title IX for Black Men?

That's the title of an op ed that ran today over at The Root, the new online magazine for African-Americans created by the same minds who are responsible for Slate. The piece was written by our friend, Wade Hughes, the former wrestling coach at Howard University until the program was cut along with baseball in 2002 in ... More