Many articles have been written (but little has been done) about the negative impact of Title IX on menโs sports. Schools have dropped menโs sports such as wrestling because the federal law to prevent discrimination against women requires โequityโ in menโs and womenโs sports. If there are too many men playing, compared to women, the sport may have to go.
But the following is new, at least to me: Members of the womenโs softball team at the University of Missouri say that Title IX is hurting them. They contend that in order to meet the demands of the law, the school recruits more female students than the team needs. Since those students also play (and the team has had a winning streak), the best players are on the bench more often.
Mizzou, which has been roiled by racial protests and a threatened boycott by the menโs football team last fall, has a lot of issues, as the College Fix points out. But this is a new one.






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