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Colleges are cutting millions of dollars from sports budgets to address financial shortfalls, including dismissing athletics staff, cutting scholarships and eliminating teams.
Among the recent casualties of athletics belt-tightening:
* MIT is cutting eight teams to trim $1.5 million from its budget and strengthen its remaining 33 teams.
* The University of Cincinnati cut scholarships for men's track, cross-country and swimming.
* Kutztown University PA cancelled men's soccer and swimming to save $100,000.
* The University of Maine cut women's volleyball and men's soccer.
* Nicholls State University LA will drop its seven-member women's golf team, which ...