“The business formula is not new – buy low and sell high. We are just not used to hearing about the NBA being the business using it. The NBA bought the struggling New Orleans Hornets in December 2010 for $318 million. Last month, the NBA has agreed with New Orleans Saints’ owner Tom Benson to transfer ownership for $338 million. How would you like to make $20 million in less than two years?”
Read Roger Groves’s latest piece at SportsMoney.
Nancy Hogshead-Makar, senior director of advocacy for the Women’s Sports Foundation, said the school’s decision to forfeit doesn’t aid its own students.
“In real life, these boys are going to be competing against the girls for jobs, for positions in graduate programs or in trade schools,” Hogshead-Makar said. “In every other area of their life, they are going to be competing side by side.”
Read the entire story at the Washington Post.
Nancy Hogshead-Makar, senior director of advocacy for the Women’s Sports Foundation, won three gold medals and a silver medal in swimming at the 1984 Olympics. She said it is important that any added girls varsity sports have the chance of a college scholarship.
“Part of it is the pursuit of a scholarship, even though many don’t ultimately get scholarships,” Hogshead-Makar said. “The thing that makes sports valuable is having a goal and postponing the short-term. If you want to have fun, you don’t train for the Olympics. What purpose would anybody have to swim four hours a day if they didn’t have a long-term goal?”
Read the entire story at The Californian.
We have a culture that breeds love for football. By the time a child with extraordinary talent reaches puberty, that talent is likely to be revealed, exulted, and exploited. Most parents would welcome the adulation, free college education, and instant millionaire status as a windfall for child and parents alike. Or so it seems.
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“Nancy Hogshead-Makar is the senior director of advocacy for the Women’s Sports Foundation. The WSF was part of a group that helped form the transgender policies for the high school and college level.
“In high school it’s about gender identification. Whatever somebody says they are is what they get to participate in,” said Hogshead-Makar. The WSF took its policy for the NCAA from the International Olympic Committee’s policy that mandates that transgender women must be at least two years post-gender reassignment surgery in order to compete.“
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Myth No. 1: Title IX is controversial
“I’d say that is the biggest myth out there,” says Hogshead-Makar, who is also senior director of advocacy for the Women’s Sports Foundation. Citing three major polls, including one by The Wall Street Journal and CNN, she notes that about 80 percent of people surveyed say they want Title IX left alone or strengthened. “There’s a very small group of noisy people opposed to Title IX,” she says. “The vast majority of the public wants men and women to have equal educational opportunity, including in athletics.”
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Professor Roger Groves’s latest pieces at SportsMoney focus on Michigan State’s Draymond Green and the underrated Kentucky Wildcats.
The Orange County Register takes a look at how athletes who survived abuse have join together as advocates. Coastal Law Professor Nancy Hogshead-Makar adds her insight to the issue.
Barely reported in newspapers, radio, television, or social media is the fact that fans of the Green Bay Packers just finished paying $67 million for a stadium renovation. More specifically, they each bought a tiny piece of the team when buying shares of corporation, and the money raised will be used for the renovation. Saliently, each of those who were part of 268,000 shares purchased decided to pay cash without any expectation of receiving more money than they paid as a return on their investment.
Read more at Forbes Money.
Our very own Nancy Hogshead-Makar was featured in The Herald-Sun for her continued achievements in women’s athletics.
DURHAM – Nancy Hogshead-Makar’s competitive swimming record landed her at Duke University on a full scholarship, and her talent also took her on to claim three gold medals and a silver at the 1984 Olympics.
Now a lawyer who works on gender equity issues in education, Hogshead-Makar said she knows that female athletes a few years older than she, but equally as hard-working, didn’t have the same scholarship opportunities.
Read more: The Herald-Sun – Duke women’s athletics 40 years and counting