White House: Calling All Female Jocks

My grandmother played basketball in college in the early 1900's, REAL basketball she would say, not girl's basketball (Iowa rules).

My mother loved girls sports but never played in school. She was a stalwart supporter of me, always in the stands or bleachers. Her glory came later as she won medals in an over 50 track club.

I ran track, played basketball and volleyball in hs and played volleyball in college and my daughter played volleyball in both hs and college.

Title IX was important in getting scholarship money to women athletes but went too far when it was used decimating minor men's sports programs. Which is another example of the unintended consequences of good intentions. There is a difference between what is ultimately fair and exactly equal.

we ran our 10th mount snow girls lacrosse tournament in 2008.6 girls lacrosse teams had a ball kicking *** and have absolutely NO Baggage..mom has alittle grandma still cant walk its so heavey..amazing these young ladies are ready for primetime. IX worked.whining is being done by losers hanging on for some strange reason.woman are finally there in 2009.good job sisters.on your back these girls are there..
big gabe
marlboro vermont

I never found Title IX relevant to my or my girlfriends lives before or after it was enacted. It never stopped us from participating in sports or being good athletes.

For myself: I was in the top 10% in fencing, skeet, tennis, snow skiing, barrel racing, and learned to water ski on one ski the first time I ever skied. And I lived in a small town, middle-class family, in a mountain state. I competed with the men and they encouraged me, gave me tips, and applauded my successes and laughed/razzed my failures. It was great fun.

Nah... I'm not impressed with Title IX. It was a lot more fun before Title IX and guys became self-conscious.

If/when universities have men's centers and departments like the women do, then I might feel a little more inclined to think Title IX was important. When men's numbers at the colleges stops diminishing, then I might think the women's movement was necessary. When the feminists want to protect all women from sexual harassment/attacks (like Palin and Prejean) then maybe I'll think reporting on these idiots is relevant to the majority of women's lives. I have no sympathy for women who put men in the back seat in the name of equality.

Someday I hope the identity politics stops and people be recognized on their merit not their identity by gender, race, class, ethnicity, and etc.

I'm sorry to throw business into this well-earned media lull, but I just thought of a new tool that might be useful in government mangagement of healthcare costs. As far as I know, it's never been tried to build policy (which is already everwhere in healthcare) around tiers based on patient billings for some period or peiods of time. For example, if patient medications increased past a certain threshold of monthly costs, a new tier of policy would come into play, like they would have to be managed by an MD and not a PA, or they would have to conform to some other policies, etc. This would raise the costs to the industry for increasing expenses, without prohibiting care. If, for another example, annual billings for a patient exceeded such an amount, a new tier of policy would come into play. This would cause physicians and hospitals to seek the best care for patients balanced against a cost for using too much of the lower-tier resources. Government must realize the influence of policy will never be friendly to the industry or to patients, but that doesn't mean it cannot be deployed to good effect if necessary for the internal management of resources.

I detest Basketball and have disdain for those marginal morons who participate in this stupid sport.