Ruling Keeps Women’s Ski Jumping Out of Games – By IAN AUSTEN – Published: July 10, 2009 – nytimes.com

Ruling Keeps Women’s Ski Jumping Out of Games – By IAN AUSTEN – Published: July 10, 2009 – nytimes.com

OTTAWA — An attempt by 15 female ski jumpers from five countries to open their sport to women at the 2010 Winter Olympics was rejected by a Canadian court Friday.

In her ruling, Justice Lauri Ann Fenlon of the Supreme Court of British Columbia agreed that it was discriminatory to keep ski jumping a men-only event. But she also found that the women’s constitutional rights were not violated by their exclusion.

“The plaintiffs will be denied this opportunity for no reason other than their sex,” Fenlon wrote in the 42-page decision, before referring to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. “But not every act of discrimination is a breach of the charter…”

They really ought to let women play baseball … – rec.sport.football.college | Google Groups

Christina Hoff Sommers – A Threat in Title IX – washingtonpost.com

A Threat in Title IX – By Christina Hoff Sommers – Tuesday, April 14, 2009 – washingtonpost.com

What’s good for women’s basketball will be good for nuclear physics.

To most Americans, that statement will sound odd. To President Obama, it apparently does not. In an October letter to women’s advocacy groups, he declared that Title IX, the law that requires universities to give equal funding to men’s and women’s athletics, had made “an enormous impact on women’s opportunities and participation in sports.” If pursued with “necessary attention and enforcement,” the same law could make “similar, striking advances” for women in science and engineering.

Note: this article persuades the reader to challenge the Obama administration’s new direction…

In film, victims find voice at last – Rachel Blount, Columnist – startribune.com

In film, victims find voice at last – Rachel Blount, Columnist – startribune.com

Davies had played basketball at Penn State under coach Rene Portland in the early 1980s, until Portland’s harassment regarding her sexual orientation drove her from the team. She was one of several targets of a coach openly biased against gay athletes. When Carroll met Davies years later, she saw a woman still devastated by the theft of her sports dreams.

From Gender Issues

“I felt I was talking to a person who didn’t have much confidence, who was broken down,” said Carroll, director of the sports project at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. “I think when the details of the Penn State case came out, people in the sports world were shocked at the extent of the effect on the athletes. But when I saw her Sunday, she was standing tall, walking with a confidence I couldn’t believe.”

Homerun 69 – Diana Cervantes…

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Homerun 69…

Homerun 68 – Diana Cervantes…

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Homerun 68…

Homerun 67 – Diana Cervantes…

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Homerun 67…

Homerun 66 – Diana Cervantes…

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Homerun 66…

Women recall a different kind of baseball – Published: Thursday, June 25, 2009 – By Mike Morsch – thereporteronline.com

Women recall a different kind of baseball – Published: Thursday, June 25, 2009 – By Mike Morsch – thereporteronline.com

It was baseball, but without all the spitting and scratching.

Instead, the women of the 1940s-era All-American Girls Professional Baseball League were asked to replace those typical man pleasantries with skirts, chaperones and etiquette classes…

Title IX lawsuit could affect FHSAA action – Planned cuts in prep sports schedules results in legal action BY JASON THOMPSON Gulf Breeze News – Published June 25, 2009 – gulfbreezenews.com

Title IX lawsuit could affect FHSAA action – Planned cuts in prep sports schedules results in legal action BY JASON THOMPSON Gulf Breeze News – Published June 25, 2009 – gulfbreezenews.com

A lawsuit filed last week in Jacksonville seeks to halt the Florida High School Athletic Association’s recent controversial decision to trim game schedules for most sports by 20 to 40 percent during the next two academic school years.

Attorney Nancy Hogshead- Makar filed suit in U.S. District Court in Jacksonville last week charging the FHSAA’s decision constitutes gender discrimination in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Florida Educational Equity Act.

By a 9-6 margin, the FHSAA Executive Board in April voted to cut team sports schedules with the exception of varsity football and competitive cheerleading by 20 percent and junior varsity schedules by 40 percent. According to the FHSAA, some member schools, mostly in the southern part of Florida, requested the cuts in an effort to save money.

Approximately 36,000 boys compete in varsity football, while only 4,000 girls compete in cheerleading. That disproportionality spurned Hogshead- Makar, a respected college law professor and former Olympic athlete, to file suit on behalf of six parents and their daughters known as Florida Parents for Athletic Equity (FPAE). It challenges the legality of the schedule reduction known as Policy 6.

“FPAE is pleased that the FHSAA is finally taking gender equity more seriously after we filed our lawsuit in federal court, along with a motion for preliminary injunction and a motion for a temporary restraining order,” Hogshead-Makar said in an e-mail to Gulf Breeze News on Monday night.