383 Results for tag: Title IX
Here's a short video feature on the current state of the
Title IX debate. Jessica Gavora of the College Sports Council makes an appearance.
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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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The recent double-talk from Myles Brand and the NCAA is so zany and contradictory we thought it might be a good time to have a quick reality check.
First, to recap, Brand recently told USA Today: "My expectation is that over the next year or two we are going to see more cuts of men's teams and so I am trying, frankly, to pre-empt the argument against ...
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Although I've written it before, I think it always bears repeating: the introduction of quotas will always create bizarre distortions in the long run. Here's just another example from the Daily Eastern News, a campus publication at Eastern University in Ohio:
It was only a little more than a year ago when Ryan McKay crossed the finish line in third place ...
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Over at TownHall.com, our friend Allison Kasic takes a look at interest surveys and
Title IX.
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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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At least according to this story at jdnews.com. Here's the paragraph that caught my eye:
With lacrosse a growing NCAA sport because of
Title IX, Herbold said about 130 girls from the Baltimore area signed scholarships in lacrosse last month. That, he said, compared to about 60 boys - and 10 players each in football and basketball.
Of course, thanks to ...
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We've been following the potential elimination of men's track and field at Bemidji State for a couple of weeks now, and Mike Hougen, a track coach at a high school in Iowa, has come up with an idea to save the team. The following is excerpted from a letter to the editor that appeared in today's edition of the Bemidji Pioneer:
My proposal is to increase ...
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The sports section of today's New York Times provided a real spit up your coffee moment this morning while I was reading a Bill Pennington piece entitled, "Dropped from Varsity Lineup, but no Longer Grumbling". I'll let you read the following passage, but to me, the argument seems to be that for some male athletes, separate but equal is just fine -- an ...
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