383 Results for tag: Title IX
Earlier this week, the American Association of University Women published a study entitled, "Where the Girls Are: The Facts About Gender Equity in Education". And like the folks on the other side of the argument pointed out a few days back, it's really not about the girls, but rather it's aimed at debunking the claim that young men aren't being served ...
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By now, much of the college sports community has heard the news out of Arizona State University, where three men's athletic programs -- swimming, wrestling and tennis -- were eliminated in a midnight massacre where the school's administration couldn't even be bothered to notify the students and coaching staff in person.
It's just business as usual when ...
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In arguments over the implementation of
Title IX in athletics, it's easy for the debate to get heated and for feelings to get bruised. With that in mind, I'd like to introduce everyone to Kathy DeBoer, the Executive Director of the American Volleyball Coaches Association. A year ago, DeBoer sat for an interview with the NCAA coinciding with the 35th ...
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Over at Laney College outside of Oakland, California, the administration has decided to eliminate the Softball program in favor of Women's Basketball because of demand. Fair enough, though the folks here at CSC are never happy when they see programs canceled.
That same school would like to add Men's Soccer too, but can't:
"The community has said, 'We ...
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Texas Swimming has more to say about the bloodletting in the athletic department at URI:
In case there are two or three of you out there that still thinks it's a budget issue, get a load of this:
The 2008 men's swim team roster consists of 23 guys. The women are carrying a whopping 42 gals!
Which team do you think costs the most to keep? It's really ...
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From Let's Play Hockey:
The College Hockey America (CHA) conference will be down to four teams now that Wayne State has discontinued varsity hockey. That also means there will no longer be an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the league. The four remaining teams (Bemidji State, Alabama-Huntsville, Robert Morris and Niagara) are solid but need two ...
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Brian Liscovitz, a student at the University of Illinois is a member of an endangered species -- he's a male gymnast:
The sport of boys gymnastics has long vanished from New Jersey's high school scene and it is vanishing from the college landscape as well.
Title IX and budget cuts, sometimes working in concert, have reduced the NCAA ranks from 120 ...
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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 effect
Title IX is having on men's ...
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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 traffic controllers for ads on ESPN: ...
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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 with ESPN to run during coverage of ...
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