Saving Sports

Blog of the American Sports Council.

Continuing Unhappiness with New Booster Regs.

The last we heard from parents in New Mexico dealing with new booster club regulations, they were frustrated. Upset that their hard-earned voluntary donations would likely impact their kids' sports less if pooled together, discouraged from participating in club activities, concerned about bureaucratic interference. We... More

Why Men’s Soccer Suffers

The Daily Reville, the student newspaper at Louisiana State University (LSU), claims that "antiquated Title IX laws [are] keeping LSU from a men's soccer program." We agree. The overwhelming evidence, including our 2008 analysis of soccer disparities in Division I schools, proves that proportionality harms men's ... More

Booster Club Parents Fed up with Regs

Booster club parents and volunteers in New Mexico high schools have become unsatisfied with and deterred by overzealous Title IX court rulings and state law that require evenly distributing private earmarked donations among all activities. As we warned last year, pooled donations will dwindle total contributions as parents ... More

A Simple Reminder for Journalists

The media is understandably frenzied over the University of Maryland's decision to join the Big 10 conference, but its short-term memory lapse over the University's elimination of 7 teams, apparent in today's excited coverage, is unacceptable. Only four months ago, the school cemented recommendations from the Preside... More

They Can’t Blame Football

Mount St. Mary's University is the latest school to announce Title IX cuts, dropping men's soccer and men's and women's golf. The university administrators offered the usual explanation — financial constraints — and threw in the typical caveat about their long-term commitment to Title IX ("something we take very ... More

Title IX Cuts Sting for Wrestlers

Not everyone views Title IX so keenly, especially former wrestlers and swimmers who have been forced to accept that regulations of a law that's supposed to protect them from gender discrimination has caused them to stop playing sports precisely because of their gender. The Record, a local paper in North Jersey, docume... More

Spot the Problem?

As seen in the Flor-ala: Title IX corrected that by putting in place a law that required schools who received aid from the government to give women the same chance at getting the aid as men do. “In Division I basketball, for example, women’s basketball … they get 15 (scholarships) compared to the men at 13,” ... More

“New” Study on HS Athletics Same Old Activist Bunk

A report alleging widespread disparities in athletic opportunities offered to boys and girls in high schools across the country is not a serious policy document worthy of any close consideration but just another iteration of activist groups' efforts to scare parents, cozy up to Department of Education and drag the ... More

Puppeteering at Towson University

Men's baseball and soccer are no longer welcome at Towson University after the 2012-2013 seasons. For that matter, no men's team at Towson is safe from the administration's masterful manipulation of roster spots, scholarship awards, recruiting budgets and team funding so long as the university is steadfast in its ... More

High Schools: Trouble Lies Ahead

As we've previously pointed out plenty of times, the three-part test that determines compliance with Title IX is only for intercollegiate athletics. We even tried to prove in court the loss of opportunities and equal protection under the law when high schools rely on gender quotas, but our case was thrown out on ... More