The NCAA has released updated numbers on how much money is being flushed down the pipes at your local athletic department, and Sports Law Blog relates it to the sure-to-be-landmark O’Bannon vs. NCAA case. I think O’Bannon has a case…
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Is a major in sports really any worse than my music major?
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
Should athletes have the opportunity to major in sports? Yes, argues a piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which recently offered yours truly a special deal for “university professionals” in a reassuring demonstration that advertisers do not know everything about you.…
Soccer shocker in Richmond
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
Richmond, Va., isn’t just the home of a lot of Civil War history and Carbon Leaf. It has been a legitimate hotbed of U.S. soccer for a couple of decades. The Richmond Kickers won the 1995 U.S. Open Cup. And…
Title IX-related questions
by Beau Dure • • 2 Comments
I pride myself on being less cynical than the typical journalist. And I’m certainly not someone to rain on the parade of Title IX’s 40th anniversary. Griping about an anniversary commemoration is like showing up at a July 4 fireworks…
Anonymous Genius: Fighting elitism with sexism and racism
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
I went to Duke, but I get it. The country is tired of hearing about how great it is. Ever since the back-to-back titles in ’91 and ’92, they’ve been overexposed and at times overrated. Plenty of reasons to get…
Questioning the place of sports in college: Drop football, save academics?
by Beau Dure • • 2 Comments
A Chicago-area junior college has dropped its football program. Sad day for student-athletes? A tale of Title IX excess? No, says the Chicago Tribune‘s John Keilman (listed as “reporter” though this is clearly an op-ed). I think a lot of…
How education helps athletes
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
Monica Gonzalez wasn’t writing specifically about high school and college soccer here, but she makes an argument here that bolsters the notion of keeping the USA’s “school and soccer” combination alive: Education affects sports performance. Think of it as a…
The war on nonrevenue sports, ctd
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
The argument as laid out in Sports Illustrated: 1. There’s a lot of money flowing into big-time college sports. 2. They should give some of that money away toward charitable causes. 3. But wait, many athletic departments are actually losing money. So…