Thursday, March 06, 2025

No NIL for you!

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 This much belated post about the administration's reversal of Biden (out-the-door) era g uidance on distribution of NIL monies is cross...
Friday, February 14, 2025

NCAA Hypocrisy

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   [this is cross-posted at After Atalanta ] {I will post something soon about the new rules on NIL; just trying to keep up/catch up on all...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Students still have protections...

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 ...but we need to demand that they are ensured and applied. I was reminded by Teen VOGUE ( follow them on BlueSky !) that it has been a ye...
Sunday, February 09, 2025

What's in store for Title IX in 2025 (and beyond), Part III: The transwomen ban in sports

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 Over at After Atalanta I have started--and will continue--to write about the executive order banning transwomen from school-sponsored spor...
Monday, February 03, 2025

What reversion to 2020 means

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This administration's Department of Education issued a memo last week stating that the 2020 guidelines are now back in effect. My instit...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Finally a win for a Title IX

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 ...and a sort of validation of my earlier prediction. Last week's multi-billion settlement (still in need of final approval by the judg...
Friday, January 10, 2025

What's in store for Title IX in 2025? Part II: Dropped protections for trans students, including athletes--POST INTERRUPTED

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So just as I was about to post this one, I heard the n ews that a federal judge had blocked the new Title IX rules (which went into effect i...
Wednesday, January 01, 2025

What's in store for Title IX in 2025: Part I NIL

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 I probably should have titled this series (whether it actually becomes a series...) what I think should happen in 2025 with Title IX becaus...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

2025 intentions

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 I do not make resolutions but I like to set some intentions and those generally seem to work out (a few years ago I decided--in the interes...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Former Harvard coach alleges sex discrimination in federal lawsuit

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  Over at my other blog, I have been writing about the "retirement" of women's ice hockey coach, Katey Stone in 2023 amid all...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Hope and concern in West Virginia ruling

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 I attended a rally/vigil last week focused on LGBTQ+ visibility and one of the brilliant speakers spoke to the difficulty of maintaining/ha...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Not saying "I do" to Biden's proposal

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 With the spate of legislation aimed at denying trans people--including trans children--fundamental rights, it would seem like this month...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

The story of the Las Vegas Invitational is not the story

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 I spent part of last Sunday afternoon watching women's college basketball. Iowa took on UConn in the final of the Phil Knight Legacy to...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Winning and failing at the same time

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 A community college in Oregon must pay a former student over a million dollars after a jury decided the school was in breach of contract. ...