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Maryland Officially Cuts 7 Sports; Keeps Men’s Outdoor Track Team
Washington Post, Mark Giannottohttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/terrapins-insider/post/maryland-officially-cuts-seven-sports-mens-outdoor-track-and-field-spared-for-now/2012/07/02/gJQAjbsFIW_blog.htmlMaryland has officially discontinued seven of i...

Cal A.D. Sandy Barbour Discusses How Title IX Has Helped Women’s Athletics
CalBears.comhttp://www.calbears.com/genrel/062012aad.htmlSandy Barbour has served as Director of Athletics at Cal since the fall of 2004, overseeing a 29-sport program that annually rates among the best in the country in the Directors’ Cup rank...

How Has Maine Fared In Overseeing Title IX?
The Portland Press Herald, Glenn Jordanhttp://www.pressherald.com/sports/titleIX/lax-oversight-kept-sports-equality-in-backfield_2012-06-18.htmlFour decades after legislation took effect mandating equal opportunity for girls and women in education an...

Illinois Attorney General Sues IHSA For Disabled Students’ Athletic Rights
Chicago Tribune, Erin Meyerhttp://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-16/news/ct-met-disabled-swimmer-lawsuit-filed-20120517_1_disabled-athletes-disabled-students-student-athletesThe Illinois High School Association is violating the rights of disable...

Former Ohio St. A.D. Andy Geiger Takes Over Position At UW-Milwaukee
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Don Walkerhttp://www.jsonline.com/sports/panthers/uwm-names-andy-geiger-athletic-director-q75cak4-151060955.htmlEager to put several years of turmoil inside the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee athletic department behind ...

NCHSAA Doesn’t Have Votes To Remove Private Schools
StarNewsOnline.com, Powell Latimerhttp://varsitynow.blogs.starnewsonline.com/19582/nchsaa-vote-to-boot-parochial-schools-fails/The NCHSAA will keep private schools around, for the time being.A controversial system-wide vote to remove three parochial ...

Battle Ensuing Over Filming Adam Sandler Movie On H.S. Football Field
SalemNews.com, Alan Burkehttp://www.salemnews.com/local/x1720499696/Crowd-raises-objections-to-filming-on-fieldMARBLEHEAD — The plan to film Adam Sandler’s "Grown Ups 2" on the high school’s Piper Field got some bad reviews at a mee...

USC Receives $8 Million Gift For New Aquatics Center
USCTrojans.comhttp://www.usctrojans.com/sports/m-wpolo/spec-rel/050112aaa.htmlThe University of Southern California Athletic Department has announced an $8 million gift from alumnus Wilfred "Fred" Uytengsu ’83.The gift - the largest ever made t...

University of Memphis Names San Jose State’s Bowen As A.D.
Memphis Business Journal, Michael Sheffieldhttp://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/2012/04/16/tom-bowen-announced-as-new-athletic.htmlThe University of Memphis has officially named Tom Bowen as athletic director. Bowen will replace curr...

U Of Maryland’s Women’s Water Polo Team Hopes To Raise $1M By June 30 For Survival
The Diamondback, Rebecca Luryehttp://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/water-polo-team-given-more-time-to-fundraise-1.2844156#.T4caWY7d43QThe women’s water polo team became the fourth athletic team at risk of elimination to receive an extension in...