
Groups prepared to fight for the life of baseball, other sports as Air Force considers cuts
Article here. Excerpt:
'The future of America's national pastime is apparently in serious jeopardy at Air Force.
Budget cuts are expected to come down as early as March 4, and The Gazette has confirmed that sports may be eliminated. With baseball high on that list, a group of former players are doing all they can to proactively prevent it.
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"We are experiencing unprecedented budget challenges over the next several years and have to make some very difficult decisions."
Title IX will be a factor when determining cuts. Since the academy's gender breakdown is roughly 80 percent male, male athletes must be offered about 75 to 85 percent of the intercollegiate athletic opportunities. So if baseball is cut, a corresponding women's team would likely have to go as well.
This may end up saving some men's sports, which flips the original impact of the law as many schools around the nation had to cut men's sports like wrestling and baseball to even out opportunities between genders.'
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