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  • San Diego State athletes band together in Title IX fight

    06/14/2022 5:54:43 AM PDT · by FlipWilson · 16 replies
    ESPN ^ | Dan Murphy
    SAN DIEGO -- The notification that San Diego State was cutting its women's rowing program was delivered, like most bad news in 2020, in a Zoom meeting. Madison Fisk sat at a desk in her bedroom in the off-campus house she shared with several teammates in November 2020 and listened to her coach explain that their scholarships -- if they had them -- would still be honored, but there would be no team for her senior season. There would be no races or regattas, no team bus rides, no 5 a.m. sunrise workouts
  • Anna Kournikova: The Rise And Fall Of One Of The Most Polarizing Athletes In Sports

    06/17/2012 5:00:26 PM PDT · by presidio9 · 98 replies
    Business Insider ^ | Jun. 7, 2012 | Nicholas Schwartz|
    You may have forgotten about tennis celebrity Anna Kournikova, but the retired star celebrates her 31st birthday today. Kournikova took the tennis world by storm in the 1990s, gaining as much attention for her good looks as her tennis ability. But Kournikova's career is largely considered a disappointment. Once a highly-touted phenom, she failed to live up to her potential before ultimately finding her niche off the court.
  • Ruling Strikes Down Lengthy Sentence for Coach

    08/17/2004 10:45:27 AM PDT · by ppaul · 8 replies · 800+ views
    The Seattle Times ^ | 8/17/04 | Maureen O'Hagen
    A basketball coach who admitted molesting one of his players could be out of prison by the end of this month under a state Court of Appeals decision released yesterday. Tony Giles, who coached girls basketball in the area for more than a decade, had been sentenced last August to nearly three-and-a-half years in prison, twice what prosecutors had requested. At sentencing, Judge Harry J. McCarthy said the lengthy, or "exceptional," sentence was justified because "It is clear that he groomed them for his own sexual desires ... and basically preyed upon [the victim] to satisfy his sexual appetite." But...