Another unkind cut for men's track.Byline: Ron Bellamy "Rockin'" Ron Bellamy (born December 13, 1964) is an American professional boxer. He is the half-brother of former NBA center Walt Bellamy. Ron also started his career in basketball, playing collegiately at UNC-Charlotte and professionally in New Zealand and Europe. / The Register-Guard I don't have a problem with the fact that Oregon offers women's soccer, but not men's soccer, or women's lacrosse Women's lacrosse is a popular version of lacrosse, a team sport of Native American origin played with netted sticks that are used to throw, catch and shoot a small rubber ball into the opponent's goal. , but not men's lacrosse lacrosse (ləkrôs`), ball and goal game usually played outdoors by two teams of 10 players each on a field 60 to 70 yd (54.86 to 64.01 m) wide by 110 yd (100.58 m) long. Two goals face each other 80 yd (73. , or softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' , but not baseball. (Although the success of the Oregon State baseball team this year - proving that in the rainy Willamette Valley The Willamette Valley (pronounced [wɪˈlæ.mɪt], with the accent on the second syllable) is the region in northwest Oregon in the United States that surrounds the Willamette River as it proceeds northward from its it's possible to develop a Top 10 team and draw capacity crowds - has to be another bitter pill for old Ducks who want to see baseball back at Oregon.) But Oregon, striving to be in compliance with Title IX, needed to add women's sports to close the gap with the 85 men's scholarships taken by football. Hence Oregon has women's soccer, women's lacrosse, and ultimately a women's sport to-be-named-later, and no baseball. And Oregon is still among universities that need to do more to reach full compliance with Title IX. While the Ducks have added women's sports, and use that progress to argue their compliance with Title IX, they still fall short on the key test of proportionality. During the 2002-03 school year, the most recent year for which figures are available - and pre-lacrosse - roughly 53 percent of the students at Oregon were women, but only 38.6 percent of UO scholarship athletes were women. Which gets to the point of today's column, which is that without cloaking it in Title IX, the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association board recently approved adding scholarships to four women's sports, including track and field, which effective August 2006 will have 20 rides, divisible DIVISIBLE. The susceptibility of being divided. 2. A contract cannot, in general, be divided in such a manner that an action may be brought, or a right accrue, on a part of it. 2 Penna. R. 454. among numerous athletes and up from 18 now. Meanwhile, men's track and field stays stuck at 12.6 scholarships. And now they've flat-out lost me. Given the number of scholarships commandeered by football - which pays a lot of bills, by the way - maybe this is fair, but it's not right. Or it's right, but not fair. It doesn't make sense. There are as many events in men's track and field as there are in women's track and field. The NCAA said it studied "participation rates" and decided that women's track deserved two more scholarships. I'm not sure how that's figured. I don't see fewer boys involved in high school track than girls. And if there are fewer men being taken as walk-ons by college track programs now, it's because schools want to hold those numbers down because they hurt their Title IX statistics. "I have mixed emotions," said Gary Gray, the UO associate AD and interim director of track and field. "Any time you add scholarships for anyone, that's great. I have two daughters; I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. that they'll ever be to the level to talk about scholarships, but it's opportunities." But, Gray noted, "you don't have to be a mathematician to to figure out that when you have the same amount of events, but 40 percent less aid, I'm not sure how fair that is." For the sport, or for the male athlete getting partial aid, or no aid, when a woman not as highly ranked in her event gets more. In other women's scholarship increases, gymnastics gymnastics, exercises for the balanced development of the body (see also aerobics), or the competitive sport derived from these exercises. Although the ancient Greeks (who invented the building called a gymnasium and soccer will get 14, up from 12, and volleyball will get one more scholarship, to 13, to recognize the new specialty position, the libero Libero can refer to:
Universities are under no obligation to fund the scholarship increases when they take effect in 2006, but they'll look bad if they don't. Whether the extra rides will have an impact on competitiveness remains to be seen. The reduction of football scholarships has led to an increase in parity. Will the increase in soccer scholarships, for example, mean that two good-but-not-great athletes who might have fallen to an Oregon will now, instead, go to Stanford? Oregon's next head track coach would decide how the Ducks spend their two new scholarships. Presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. , Oregon will invest in two star-quality athletes, rather than spread the scholarship money over a greater number, because Oregon's recruiting efforts have been hurt in the past by mid-major schools giving full rides to athletes the Ducks had hoped to get with partial scholarships. We'll see. The bottom line is that the NCAA increase is a good deal for women athletes, but it's another insult to men's track and field. |
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