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Stopping the count: How Power 5 schools avoid Title IX complianceIt’s been 50 years since Title IX was signed into law. It’s been 38 years since the Supreme Court ruled that Title IX didn’t apply to college athletics, and 34 years since Congress overruled that decision through legislation. And it’s been one year since duplicate counting of female college athletes...

Girls’ high school sports: The most impactful legacy of Title IXOne of Title IX’s most significant triumphs in the last 50 years has been the soaring number of women competing in high school sports. The number of women in sports grew more than tenfold, from 294,015 in the 1971-72 school year to 3.4 million in 2019, according to a Women’s Sports Foundation study....

It's 50 years after the passage of Title IX, and I’m done being gratefulTitle IX turns 50 this month and, although the law is responsible for so much progress, the work is unfinished. The celebrations and acknowledgements are on the way, but for years women who play sports have been required to be thankful for scraps, and those days are over....

Jack Del Rio paints Capitol insurrection as 'dustup' in moronic commentary

Federal investigations into the Washington Commanders’ ownership, revelations of sexual misconduct, and a too-little-too-late name change just didn’t do it for them, I guess. Really, are they under some sort of curse that forces them to humiliate themselves until they, like, carry Zero up the mounta...

Dems, GOP want to pump $30 billion in COVID relief to gyms amid expected fitness boom

So they finally agree on something?...

Football coach-turned-politician thinks incoming football players should avoid talking politics

This is not a story from our colleagues at The Onion....

We are sorry to report that Herschel Walker might run for U.S. Senate

If you’ve watched Tommy Tuberville for the past few months and thought, “we need more MAGA sports figures who know next to nothing about our government to hold some of the most powerful political positions in the country,” well, you’re thrilled with today’s news....

Tuberville tries to slip bigoted trans athletes amendment into COVID relief, allowing Manchin to reveal true self

We already know that Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, is not really your friend....