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More than 100 Division I colleges recently voted to override a new NCAA rule that provides more scholarships to female athletes. It permits schools to offer a total of seven more scholarships in women's gymnastics, soccer, track and field, and volleyball beginning in August of 2006.
Proponents say the increases are necessary to accommodate female athletes in fast-growing sports like soccer and to help teams that lose players to injury. Those who oppose it, many from smaller schools, argue that it could disturb the balance between richer schools that can afford more scholarships and those that cannot.
The Division I board was scheduled to decide in August whether to try to enact the rule over the schools' objections. If they decide to keep the rule, it will be suspended until January, when the full membership will vote on its adoption. This limbo status comes ...