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Spoiled Sports.(Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex, and Title IX)
Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex, and Title IX, by Jessica Gavora (Encounter, 181 pp., $24.95)
When Brandi Chastain stripped down to her sports bra after helping the U.S. team win the women's World Cup soccer championship, it was page- one news -- one of the most memorable images of 1999. As the current legend has it, neither that win, nor Chastain's display, nor indeed any victory for women's sports would ever have been possible without a law known as "Title IX."
Jessica Gavora knows the value of girls' sports. The same year Title IX was passed -- 1972 -- Gavora, author of Tilting the Playing Field, was playing fourth-grade basketball in ...
- Taking away10 vowels toreach Title IX.(SPORTS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times January 31, 2003 700+ words
...WASHINGTON TIMES The Title IX titans, either for or...flagship program of Title IX, and what a piece of...learning do not major in sports. Here's the kicker...Their interest in the sport does not extend beyond...trying to comply with Title IX. This lack of interest...
- Bad coaches, bad players- thank you, Title IX.(SPORTS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 21, 2002 700+ words
...telling indictments of Title IX, considering women...purports to help. Title IX's adherents fail to...non-revenue men's sports that have been eliminated...participated in a non-revenue sport in college. The experience...at times amid the Title IX drumbeat. These people...
- Toeing Title IX line.(Sports)(UO trying to get in step with federal standard)
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) February 2, 2003 700+ words
...cookies to play a sport they love personify...different aspects of Title IX, the landmark gender...rise of women's sports in the U.S. over...provisions of Title IX, which prohibits...another women's sport to remain in compliance...most recent women's sports addition, soccer...
- Title IX threatens lacrosse.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Silverstein, Scott May 24, 1997 700+ words
...movement, two signs that the sport's popularity base continues...elimination of some male sports. We don't have a lot...compliance with Title IX, which requires the proportion...strong supporter of Title IX, doesn't see the situation...double-edged sword: the sport has higher youth ...
- FOOTBALL SKEWS TITLE IX EQUATION.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) February 7, 2003 700+ words
...and all the winter sports, including hockey...comparable male-only sport is boxing, which...varsity and intramural sports, they should accept...characteristics. In the Title IX discussion, "proportionality...s and women's sports has become the buzz...as "just another sport." The ...
- Taiwan routs RP IX.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin July 24, 2005 700+ words
TEAM PHILIPPINES rammed into a taller, big-hitting Taiwan as it absorbed a 3-15 setback yesterday that stymied the hosts bid for an outright finals slot in the 2005 Asia Pacific Zone Bronco Baseball Championship at the Sto. Nino Baseball grounds in Marikina City. The Taiwanese came into the game in
- Adamson trips UST IX.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin February 17, 2005 700+ words
Byline: eddie alinea UNIVERSITY OF Santo Tomas got more hits, but Adamson got the lesser ones that mattered. Connecting comparatively less but more frequently with runners on base, the Lady Falcons, behind youthful pitching ace Cloine Muyco, defeated the Growling Tigresses, 7-4, yesterday, in Game
- Nationals blast Air Force IX.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin May 18, 2002 700+ words
Byline: CLYDE MARIANO THE ASIAN Games-bound national team blasted Air Force, 10-0, yesterday in the First Metro Manila Baseball championship at the Rizal Memorial ballpark. La Salle clobbered reigning UAAP champion University of the Philippines, 9-0, in the first game of the tournament organized by
Source: HighBeam Research, Spoiled Sports.(Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex, and...