61 Results for tag: men’s cuts
Press release from the University of Vermont:
As part of a University-wide budget management plan, the University of Vermont Athletic Department announced today that it will be discontinuing two sports, baseball and softball, at the conclusion of the current season in May. This reorganization will also include the closing of five staff positions. Dr. ...
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Schools across the country are facing tough economic pressure and many are facing the grim prospect of eliminating athletic teams. The latest example is the University of Hawaii, which reported yesterday that some of their teams may have to be cut. Problem is, which ones?
Currently, UH has eleven sports for women and seven sports for men. But ...
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In only the past few weeks, both Northeastern Univerisity and HofstraUniversity announced that they were eliminating their football programs. Both schools compete in the Football Championship Series, what was known for many years as Division I-AA. In announcing the end of the programs, officials at both schools cited many of the typical reasons: ...
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I'll be headed out for the holidays momentarily, but before I go, I wanted to pass along the very sad news that bothNorwich University(which also cut Men's tennis) and Lawrence University have dropped their men's wrestling programs.
At Norwich, it seems that friends of the program are determined not to go without a fight and are starting a letter ...
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While the administration at the University of Delaware decided to ignore NCAA President Myles Brand's edict not to blame Title IX for the end of the Men's Indoor Track program, the folks who run the student newspaper don't seem to mind resorting to Orwellian twists of the language to cover up what happened:
University President Patrick Harker, Edgar ...
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From the Chattanooga Times-Free Press:
UTC men’s golf coach Mark Guhne spent Thursday night in a condominium without running water or electricity.
“It had a couch,” he said, describing his accommodations on a recruiting trip. “I’m staying with a friend tonight in Orlando and another friend in Miami tomorrow.”
The coach is doing everyth...
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Over at Inside Higher Education, the Web site is running a piece from College Sports Council chairman Eric Pearson on NCAA President Myles Brand's recent statements on how member schools shouldn't blame Title IX for future cuts in men's athletic programs.
The entire text of the article appears below:
Myles Brand’s Code of Silence
By Eric ...
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Somebody didn't get the memo from NCAA President Myles Brand on cuts in men's athletic programs and Title IX -- and his name is University of Delaware Athletic Director Edgar Johnson. Last night, we reported that Delaware announced that as part of its long-term strategic plan for athletics, that the school would drop men's indoor track and add women's ...
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Buried in a story about the University of Delaware's strategic sports plan, we discover that men's indoor track will be demoted to club status next season in order to comply with Title IX:
But the athletics plan isn’t just about facilities. It also puts forth a competitive charge to strive for better finishes in the Colonial Athletic Association, ...
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In response to last week's New York Times series on the rise of club sports in collegiate athletics, College Sports Council Chairman Eric Pearson wrote the following letter to the editor that appeared in Saturday's newspaper:
To the Sports Editor:
The single biggest factor in the growth of club sports in college may be the stringent enforcement of ...
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