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Study Claims that Women Have More College Athletic Opportunities than Men: What a Joke
by Womenstake
posted July 21, 2009 at 1:39am

by Melanie Ross Levin, Outreach Manager, National Women's Law Center A new study by the College Sports Council allegedly compares opportunities for men and women to earn athletic scholarships and participate in college sports. But the study contains...more

Family Meals on the Run: Is the mini-van the new dinner table for families involved in youth sports?
by One Sport Voice
posted July 19, 2009 at 8:55pm

Did you know that researchers of the University of Minnesota have found that sitting down as a family at the dinner table appears to play an important role in promoting healthful eating in kids? Among children ages 11 to 18 who eat meals with their fam...more

A FHSAA P.S.
by Title IX Blog
posted July 18, 2009 at 1:17pm

The piece the NYT ran about FHSAA's decision to reverse its earlier inequitable cuts was the most comprehensive one I read. In addition to reporting on the situation in Florida, it notes that other state high school athletics associations have enacted sim...more

FHSAA takes it back
by Title IX Blog
posted July 17, 2009 at 12:14pm

The cuts to the number of interscholastic competitions, passed by the Florida High School Athletic Association in April, were rescinded yesterday in an emergency meeting, as expected.There will still be a hearing tomorrow to consider the injunction brough...more

Soccer.com Free Nike Backpack Offer
by Sports Girls Play
posted July 16, 2009 at 9:34pm

One thing I have learned having busy kids doing multiple sports is that having a dedicated bag for each sport is an organizational must! It is much easier to keep track of the little things you need for practice if they are all in the same place all the t...more

Out of a job, out of the paper
by MichelleSmith
posted July 16, 2009 at 1:21pm

Women's sports coverage being hurt by cutbacks at newspapers...more

Rescinding on the horizon
by Title IX Blog
posted July 16, 2009 at 11:20am

The Florida High School Athletic Association is meeting (I thought tomorrow but this article implies it is today) and is likely to overturn its own decision to cut varsity sport competitions--except in football and "competitive" cheerleading--by 20 percen...more

Silent Sidelines: A Band Aid approach to controlling youth sport parents
by One Sport Voice
posted July 14, 2009 at 4:48pm

Many strategies are commonly discussed to help change parental behavior on youth sport sidelines. Such strategies include: developing and enforcing a code of conduct; appointing a volunteer sideline monitor; leveling fines for inappropriate spectator be...more

Student-athletes taking responsibility
by Sport Management Education
posted July 14, 2009 at 2:23pm

When college student-athletes make mistakes, the common response is “they are just kids” or “they are only 18/19/20 years old and doing what any 18/19/20 year old would do.” I think to a certain extent that is true. But we have to remember t...more

Take a Knee: Teen Girls Talk B-Ball, Leadership, Life
by Fair Game News
posted July 14, 2009 at 12:11pm

By Laura Pappano Because we can all benefit from hearing serious young female athlete voices, we connected with three talented basketball players who just finished nine days at the summer academy run by the non-profit SportsChallenge Leadersh...more

Sand volleyball recalled
by Title IX Blog
posted July 14, 2009 at 11:41am

Somehow we missed the news that sand volleyball, the newly named NCAA emerging sport, has been called back to the drawing board.It seems San Diego State University had been planning to add sand volleyball along with women's lacrosse. SDSU must meet the ge...more

Florida High School Athletic Association accused of Title IX violation
by Womenstake
posted July 12, 2009 at 1:56pm

by Kolbe Franklin, Program Associate, National Womens Law Center Claiming budget constraints, the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) recently approved a plan to reduce the number of varsity-level games for all sports except football. In ...more

Summer of hoops
by MichelleSmith
posted July 10, 2009 at 12:04am

Young players laying basketball paths on recruiting trail...more

Women Coaching Sports: A New Educational Series
by One Sport Voice
posted July 8, 2009 at 9:03pm

Currently I am working on developing the first Women Coaching Sports workshop. Research shows female athletes who have never been coached by a female often believe that male coaches are more competent than female coaches. In the absence of female coache...more

Back to the Farm
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted July 8, 2009 at 5:50pm

Hey, we have some basketball news that actually pertains to the current Stanford women’s basketball team. The USA Women's Basketball team is playing in the World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia, and two of our girls are there (The third, Jayne Appe...more

Banning boy from field hockey underscores discrimination and stereotypes against girls
by Title IX Blog
posted July 8, 2009 at 12:50pm

A Waynesboro, PA high school principal's decision to prohibit a male student from trying out for field hockey is being decried by some as "reverse discrimination." Reverse discrimination? Invoking Title IX, the principal told Mat Levine that (1) his pre...more

FHSAA seeks dismissal
by Title IX Blog
posted July 8, 2009 at 12:33pm

In the "you've got to be kidding me" moment of the week (of course, it's only Tuesday, and things can change quickly in Title IX land--especially when it comes to litigation) the Florida High School Athletic Association has asked a judge to dismiss the la...more

Bad band!
by After Atalanta
posted July 7, 2009 at 3:17pm

So this one time, in band camp...we learned naughty things to say to other teams during basketball games.And now Texas Christian University is in trouble. For the bad band's actions during the first round of the 2009 women's national tournament, the NCAA ...more

Choosing a Sport Management Program
by Sport Management Education
posted July 7, 2009 at 11:29am

This week’s post is a recycled entry from January. Choosing a college is a very stressful time and with allof the pressure and misinformation that is put on students it does not make the process any easier. This is my first post on blogspot.com (...more

College coaches hit the road for July recruiting, Big State Flava Jam a big draw
by HoopFeed.com
posted July 6, 2009 at 7:21pm

The July recruiting season is in full swing. After an Independence Day weekend break, college coaching staffs hit the road for a month long session of heavy-duty recruiting. For nationally ranked players, last week’s Nike Skills Camp in Oregon gave th...more

UAA Investigation Reveals Locker Room Disparity
by Title IX Blog
posted July 5, 2009 at 2:39pm

The University of Alaska-Anchorage has announced plans to renovate athletic facilities to create two additional locker rooms that would provide more space to female athletes. An internal investigation into concerns the athletic department's gender equit...more

Darien Board of Ed is cautious about accepting gift
by Title IX Blog
posted July 4, 2009 at 4:18pm

A foundation has offered to donate $50,000 to support athletics at Darien (Connecticut) High School, but the Board of Education is exercising caution about whether to accept the funds, which are earmarked for the support of football ($25,000), girls' swi...more

A Good Built Environment Increases Children’s Physical Activity
by One Sport Voice
posted July 3, 2009 at 1:08pm

The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released a policy statement about the role of the built environment on children’s health. The built environment is overall structure of the physical environment of a child’s community (e.g., safe sidewalks...more

Cheerleading to ease Title IX controversy?
by Title IX Blog
posted July 2, 2009 at 2:39pm

That's the thought of a writer in New York who believes that the growth of competitive cheerleading and its acceptance as a sport by some schools could help ease all the Title IX controversy over "quotas."Would that it were so (or that we would want it to...more

Women's game: Not 'as good' as it was?
by Sports, Media & Society
posted July 1, 2009 at 11:51am

A story in the South Bend Tribune today reports that ND women's basketball coach Muffet McGraw, speaking at the annual NACDA meeting, lamented the state of women's college basketball -- ethically speaking -- today. "It's not quite as good as it used to be...more

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