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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

A couple of articles about Title IX and the Olympics brought to you by the Title IX blog:

From the Boston Globe's Bob Ryan: Ladies' Night (comment from T IX: "Too bad he keeps referring to the athletes as "ladies" in that way in which many male sports writers, thinking they are being supportive, are so condescending.")

From the Wall Street Journal:
You knew we wouldn't make it through an Olympics--even a highly successful one for the United States--without hearing about Title IX threatening the future of Olympic sports. This article in The Wall Street Journal is not entirely condemning of Title IX, but it does leave open the potential inferences by readers that cuts to men's Olympic sports happen because women's sports are "protected" by Title IX. Maybe we should go ask the female fencers at JMU how protected they felt.