383 Results for tag: Title IX
Here at Saving Sports, we've been following rumors about the elimination of the men's track and field team at the University of Delaware for about two and a half years. If you look through our archives, you'll see that we first took notice of the possibility of trouble back in November 2008. Over the weekend, the New York Times finally took a look at the ...
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At the College Sports Council, we support
Title IX as written, and believe that over the years the original intent of the legislation has been horribly distorted. But we understand that not every critic of the law has come to that conclusion. One of those critics is Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution. After reading the story from last week's New York ...
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We just got the following message from Doug Nickle:
Congrats to the folks at Cal Gymnastics Foreverfor fighting back from the brink of extinction. It's great news for the school and even better news for men's college gymnastics. More later.
UPDATE: Here's the official word from the university. (bumped)
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Earlier today, the New York Times published a letter to the editor from College Sports Council President Leo Kocher. Kocher sent his letter in response to this week's story about
Title IX and roster management.
To the Sports Editor:
The N.C.A.A.’s own data reveals that female college students, rather than being discriminated against, are afforded an ...
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Following up on the polling done by the New York Times on
Title IX earlier this week, the folks over at Rasmussen Reports have done some additional work that has uncovered something that we've long suspected—a solid majority of Americans oppose the use of strict quotas to enforce
Title IX in intercollegiate athletics.
The important information comes ...
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We're just about 36 hours past the publish time on Katie Thomas's horribly unbalanced piece on roster management and
Title IX. The good news is that there are more than a few people who aren't buying her take on gender equity.
First, we ought to check in with Wendy Parker, whose take on the piece ought to be required reading for any Journalism 101 ...
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The following statement is an official response to the New York Times story that was published this morning concerning the use of roster management by schools to comply with
Title IX. It can be attributed to Leo Kocher, President of the College Sports Council:
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Title IX has been turned into a gender quota law plain and simple, and it should not be a ...
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Earlier today on ESPN, UConn Women's Basketball head coach Geno Auriemma, spoke more than a little truth about
Title IX and equality of opportunity vs. equality of outcomes.
His comments came in response to a question posed by network anchor Hannah Storm about the New York Times piece on roster management and
Title IX that was published earlier today.
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I've been getting messages since late last night about the piece that appeared in the New York Times today concerning the widespread misreporting of athletic participation data by colleges and universities in order to comply with
Title IX.
We ought to take a look at one piece of truth that was uncovered by the piece, and that's the stone cold solid fact ...
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Earlier today, the College Sports Council (CSC) released the following statement in response to the news that a Brown University faculty committee had recommended that the school cut four athletic teams. The statement can be attributed to Eric Pearson, the Chairman of the CSC:
“The battle to save the soul of college sports has now moved to Providence. ...
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