Christian Science Monitor – Stacy Teicher Khadaroo

“Universities cannot use competitive cheerleading in their efforts to achieve gender balance in athletics and comply with Title IX, a judge ruled Wednesday.”(more)

USA Today – David Moltz

“The academic benchmarks that the National Collegiate Athletic Association uses to determine whether teams’ athletes are progressing toward graduation no longer mean what they used to.”(more)

Inside Higher Ed – David Moltz

“The academic benchmarks the National Collegiate Athletic Association uses to determine whether teams’ athletes are progressing toward graduation no longer mean what they used to. Before its meeting last month, the NCAA’s Committee on Academic Performance acknowledged that previous changes the association made to the way teams’ Academic Progress Rates (APR) are calculated have watered down the rate’s ability to predict teams’ prospective graduation rate. “(more)

BBC – Staff Writer

“Competitive sport is set to be revived in England’s schools with the launch of a national competition based around the Olympics, ministers say.”(more)

Christian Science Monitor – Stacy Teicher Khadaroo

“College sports is big business. But are Division I schools’ spending priorities so out of whack as to threaten the very integrity of their educational mission? That’s the premise of the latest report by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. It calls for reforms designed to rein in the “arms race” of athletics spending and to treat college athletes as students rather than professionals.”(more)

Inside Higer Education – Staff Writer

“For the second year in a row, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has temporarily banned at least one team from postseason play because of its athletes’ poor academic performance.”(more)

The Christian Science Monitor – Amanda Paulson

“Colleges can no longer rely on a survey for female students – designed to gauge their interest in athletics – to show that they are compliant with Title IX requirements.”(more)

Helsinki Times – Matthew Parry

“SPORTS clubs and schools should significantly increase co-operation so that sports-playing youths don’t come under unreasonable pressure in their everyday lives. This is the opinion of Sami Kalaja, a teacher of physical education and health from Jyväskylä. To this end he recommends regular meetings and an electronic communications system which would show the sports player’s camps, practices and the school’s P.E. classes.”(more)

China Daily – Xu Fan

“One of the goals of a new soccer competition is to help reduce the number of young Beijingers with obesity and myopia, a senior official said at the launch of the cup aimed at primary and high school students.”(more)

Associated Press (USA Today) – Staff Writer

“Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday said poor graduation rates among some college basketball programs would improve if the NCAA linked postseason play to the number of student-athletes getting their diplomas.”(more)