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Title IX Cuts Sting for Wrestlers
Not everyone views Title IX so keenly, especially former wrestlers and swimmers who have been forced to accept that regulations of a law that’s supposed to protect them from gender discrimination has...
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They Can’t Blame Football
Mount St. Mary’s University is the latest school to announce Title IX cuts, dropping men’s soccer and men’s and women’s golf. The university administrators offered the usual explanation — financial...
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A Simple Reminder for Journalists
The media is understandably frenzied over the University of Maryland’s decision to join the Big 10 conference, but its short-term memory lapse over the University’s elimination of 7 teams, apparent in...
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Booster Club Parents Fed up with Regs
Booster club parents and volunteers in New Mexico high schools have become unsatisfied with and deterred by overzealous Title IX court rulings and state law that require evenly distributing private...
View ArticleWhy Men’s Soccer Suffers
The Daily Reville, the student newspaper at Louisiana State University (LSU), claims that “antiquated Title IX laws [are] keeping LSU from a men’s soccer program.” We agree. The overwhelming evidence,...
View ArticleContinuing Unhappiness with New Booster Regs.
The last we heard from parents in New Mexico dealing with new booster club regulations, they were frustrated. Upset that their hard-earned voluntary donations would likely impact their kids’ sports...
View ArticleAnother Men’s Soccer Team Possibly Dropped
The State-Journal Register reports that Lincoln Land Community may drop men’s soccer for men’s golf. Why? Well the number of male athletes at the school, of course: A proposal to terminate the men’s...
View ArticleUpdate: LLCC Won’t Rescind Men’s Soccer
Some good news for the men’s soccer players at Lincoln Land Community College: their team won’t be dropped due to public outcry. The State Journal-Register reports: The Lincoln Land Community College...
View ArticleIOC Decision on Wrestling Hurts Olympic Brand
This week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to drop wrestling as an Olympic sport. This devastating decision comes after years of challenging times for our nation’s wrestlers, who,...
View ArticleDanica Patrick Leads Daytona 500 Field
Although the ASC’s coalition of sports doesn’t include motor sports, some of us are auto racing fans. So we’d like to congratulate Danica Patrick on her recent qualifying time that earned her pole...
View ArticleSelling Out the Soul of the Olympic Games
The uproar over the IOC’s decision to cut wrestling from the Olympic games has continued for weeks. And it’s no wonder. There are many reasons why this decision hurts the Olympic brand and negatively...
View ArticleSports Are About Athletes, Not Gender Ratios
In the public discourse, we rarely hear the case for Title IX reform. So it’s refreshing to see someone advocate for common-sense changes that would recover the law’s original intention — equality of...
View ArticleTemple to cut 7 teams
Temple University Cites Title IX in Decision to Drop Seven Sports Teams The alarming trend of gutting university athletic programs in order to comply with Title IX’s rigid gender quotas has claimed...
View ArticleAppeals Court Ruling Paves Way for Gender Quotas in High School Sports
The followers of the American Sports Council (ASC) will recall that we’ve been warning for years that gender quota activists were setting their sights on applying Title IX’s proportionality rule to...
View ArticleWrestling Hall Of Fame honors H. Clay McEldowney
We at the ASC are proud to share the news that on September 21st our own H. Clay McEldowney was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, NJ Chapter as ‘Outstanding American.’ When asked at...
View ArticleClub and Intramural Sports Now in Title IX Crosshairs
For years, the ASC warned that gender quota advocates would insist on the enforcement of Title IX’s Three Part Test in high school sports. Unfortunately, that prediction has recently become fact. Now...
View ArticleIs COLLEGE PRO coming to the NCAA?
One of the hottest trending topics now in college sports is the discussion about schools paying athletes stipends in addition to their scholarships. The NCAA has opened the possibility for schools to...
View ArticleRichard Broad Joins American Sports Council Board on Eve of NCAA College Cup
Addition of Respected Figure in U.S. College Soccer Underscores Damage Title IX Doing to Men’s Game With the men’s college soccer world gathering in Cary, N.C. this week for the NCAA College Cup, the...
View ArticleNo, to Presidential Commission- Yes, to new NCAA structure
One of the Women’s Sports Foundation’s favorite and often cited economists, Andrew Zimbalist of Smith College, has called for a Presidential Commission to address the recent crisis in NCAA Division I...
View ArticleASC launches EducationAndAthletics.org a new resource center for the paying...
ASC launches EducationAndAthletics.org a new resource center for the ‘paying players’ issue. The micro-site includes the ASC’s Declaration of Principles relating to the paying players issue. Here is...
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