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Women's basketball: NCAA rethinks battle of sexes
MPLS (Red) Star Tribune ^ | 1/.2/07 | Jerry Zgoda

Posted on 01/03/2007 9:14:28 PM PST by Valin

For years, women's teams have been honing their game by practicing against men. A panel says the custom violates the spirit of gender equity.

Practicing against men has been a women's basketball tradition for more than a quarter century, designed to allow women to push themselves against bigger, stronger opponents. "It's good for us because it makes us better," Gophers freshman Ashley Ellis-Milan said. But last month, the NCAA's Committee on Women's Athletics (CWA) called for a ban on male practice players. It concluded the custom violates the spirit of gender equity and Title IX, the 1972 federal law banning sex discrimination in sports.

On Monday, Division III administrators at the NCAA annual convention in Florida will consider two proposals to limit the use of male practice players, action that could influence both Division I and Division II athletics.

College coaches uniformly denounce the proposed ban. Michigan State coach Joanne McCallie called the committee recommendation -- which states "this approach implies an archaic notion of male preeminence that continues to impede progress toward gender equity and inclusion" -- political correctness gone awry.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


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To: Cowboy Bob

Viewership and ratings have nothing to do with defining an activity as a sport, but does have everything to do with defining it as a business.

If you don't enjoy watching women compete, so be it, but don't denigrate these athletes by saying their hard-work and love of competition doesn't rise to the level of "sport."

And for the record, this decision about not being allowed to use male practice players is ridiculous, and an example of the ill-conceived social engineering that the feminists in the baby boomer generation keep trying to foist on the rest of us. Unfortunately, they are firmly entrenched in academia, and that includes the NCAA.


61 posted on 01/04/2007 8:42:55 AM PST by Juana la Loca
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To: Valin
I was not referring to "Beach Volleyball" but that's ok too. I hate to say it, but I really wasn't thinking of the beach stuff.
62 posted on 01/04/2007 9:00:44 AM PST by Recon Dad (Marine Spec Ops Dad)
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To: Mark-in-Kentucky

I do like the tennis garb a whole lot, but I was thinking of team sports.


63 posted on 01/04/2007 9:02:35 AM PST by Recon Dad (Marine Spec Ops Dad)
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To: Recon Dad

There's another kind of vollyball!
/dirty old man


64 posted on 01/04/2007 9:03:20 AM PST by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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To: Howlin
It's like they don't want to let it go and are bitter because the young girls aren't as pi$$ed as they are about it.

I just cannot put it into words correctly.

Here's a try: "The fight" has become a part of their identity, and women playing basketball against men seems to these hoary old lesbians like fraternizing with the enemy. ;)

65 posted on 01/04/2007 9:04:48 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
That works for me; it certainly puts into words what I was thinking but couldn't find the right words to express.

They remind me of the Ellen Jamiesons from The World According to Garp.

66 posted on 01/04/2007 9:06:39 AM PST by Howlin (Not voting GOP was like being thirsty but not drinking since the glass is only 75% full ~~SoCalPol)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I wonder how much money ESPN is losing by broadcasting all those Womens Basketball games that NOBODY WATCHES!

But ESPN has to fill those 72 hours a day with some programming.


67 posted on 01/04/2007 1:39:47 PM PST by art_rocks
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To: Valin

"Yeah, you pretty little ladies can go off and practice by yourselves." In the interest of equal opportunity we don't want anybody having an unfair advantage.

Title IX is almost the definition of the law of unintended consequences.


68 posted on 01/04/2007 1:46:46 PM PST by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find.)
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To: Recon Dad

BEACH volleyball!


69 posted on 01/05/2007 3:48:39 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Valin
I had to add what I just read from the Chronicle of Higher Education (dated Jan 9):

"Jennifer Warmack-Chipman, an assistant director of athletics at Muhlenberg College and a member of the NCAA's Committee on Women's Athletics, told attendees that the committee opposes the use of male practice players, a strategy many women's programs use to improve the skills of top female players. (Teams often bring in men who played in high school who are bigger and faster than second-string women's players.)

The committee believes that the approach impedes female participation, Ms. Warmack-Chipman said, and "reinforces the implied notion of male pre-eminence."

Wouldn't want to reinforce the implied notion of male pre-eminence. Almost like reinforcing the notion of wet water, round earth, gravity...

70 posted on 01/09/2007 9:29:46 AM PST by RFH
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To: Enterprise; Jaysun; Valin
...Batboy...

That's...um...Robin. Robin. Not "Batboy."

This is Batboy:


71 posted on 01/09/2007 9:34:53 AM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Oberon

GOD! That things gives me the creeps.


72 posted on 01/09/2007 9:54:45 AM PST by Jaysun (I've never paid for sex in my life. And that's really pissed off a lot of prostitutes.)
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