In tomorrow's WaPo, Emily Badger reports on Maryland's new strategy to maintain Title IX compliance: make cheerleading a varsity sport.

Some observers are skeptical of the move.

"With other conferences obviously not engaging in bona fide competition in cheerleading -- that's not to say one school can't -- but it seems like they're looking for the easiest way out, that their intent is to conform to the letter of the law, but not necessarily the spirit," said Donna Lopiano, the CEO of the Women's Sports Foundation. "If they had club teams that wanted varsity status, why go and manufacture one out of cheerleaders?"