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FEMALE GOLF COACH AWARDED
$359,000 FOR DISCRIMINATION
Katie Brenny was the associate golf coach at the University of
Minnesota for less than two months when many of her duties
"disappeared". Her duties were reduced to administrative functions
and she was prohibited from traveling with the golf team.
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SWIMMING INSTRUCTOR CHANGES
CLOTHES BEFORE HELPING DROWNING BOY
A swimming instructor in a physical education class is alleged to
have opted to change from his street clothes into his swimming attire
before he attempted to rescue a 14-year-old boy who was struggling
in the pool.
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TICKET BURDEN WILL EASE
WITH NEW PLAYOFF SYSTEM
Participating colleges and universities in the new football playoff for-
mat will only be required to sell 12,500 tickets each to the games in
which they play. This is down from the 17,500 requirement under
the current Bowl Championship Series (BCS) format.
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HIGH SCHOOL "WRESTLE MANIA"
A.B. Beattie is a 12 year-old-girl who wants to pursue her passion for
wrestling on the all-male wrestling team at the Line Mountain High
School in Herndon, PA.
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LAWSUIT CALLS NATIONAL COLLEGIATE
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION AND FIVE
CONFERENCES AN "UNLAWFUL CARTEL"
Four former players are suing the National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) and five major conferences alleging that the
group formed an "unlawful cartel" that restricted the earning power
of players while the labors of those players earned billions for
schools, leagues and the NCAA.
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NCAA SURPLUS FOR
2013 EXCEEDS $60 MILLION
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) reported that it
finished fiscal year 2013 with a surplus of more than $60 million.