This past spring SUNY Albany's athletics director made the decision to cut the women's tennis team. The problem with the cut, in terms of Title IX compliance, was that Albany does not meet the proportionality prong. When a university cuts a women's team it must, by default, provide opportunities … [Read more...]
DeVos Announces Notice and Comment Process for Addressing Campus Sexual Misconduct
+ACY-nbsp+ADs Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced today that the Department of Education will commence a notice and comment process to examine the Title IX compliance standards that govern how colleges and universities handle matters of campus sexual assault. Insisting that +ACI-the era of rule by … [Read more...]
Game Changers: the unsung heroines of sports history
Today I went to the LA Times Festival of Books - my favorite of all festivals. Not only are there many great books for sale, but there are awesome author interviews. And you never know who you might meet. I stopped by the LA84 booth and started talking to filmmaker Molly Schiot about her book … [Read more...]
Minnesota football attempts boycott
Several significant events occurred in the past few weeks as we were wrapping up semesters, traveling, celebrating good news and times, and reflecting on what 2017 will bring and how we will respond.We will be catching up on these. Here is installment one about the Minnesota football … [Read more...]
Leveling the playing field
Carli Lloyd says U.S. women’s soccer stars should earn more money than men ‘because we win’
‘Pitch’ breaks the gender barrier in baseball in the most American way
In the wake of Brock Turner’s release…
There was a protest outside of the country jail in California last week when former Standford student-athlete Brock Turner was released after serving 3 months of his 6-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus. That protest centered largely on the judge responsible for … [Read more...]