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Mar 12, 2023

2023 March Madness Predictions

FiveThirtyEight 2023 March Madness Predictions In-game win probabilities and chances of advancing, updating live.

Jun 30, 2022

College Athletes Suffered When Schools Weren’t Ready For NIL

As reports of seven-figure name, image and likeness (NIL) deals for teenagers have swirled on social media — and while fans of The Good Old Days have derided those announcements as shameful evidence of how the NCAA landscape had irrevocably changed — some college athletes were asking journalists on social media how to file their […]

Jun 23, 2022

Title IX Gave Women More Chances To Coach In College. But It Gave Even More Opportunities To Men.

“People are hiring too many men,” former Notre Dame women’s basketball head coach Muffet McGraw told ThinkProgress back in 2019. In 2018, she was the only female head coach of any of the last four teams vying for the NCAA title in women’s basketball. For most of the final decade of her coaching career, McGraw […]

Jun 22, 2022

Title IX Didn’t Guarantee Black Women An Equal Playing Field

Dawn Staley won three Olympic gold medals as a basketball player and another as a coach, and she has two national championships to her name at South Carolina. She has bona fides that would seem to earn her a comfortable perch at the top of her sport. But as a Black woman in college basketball, […]

Jun 21, 2022

Which Women’s Sports Benefited The Most From Title IX?

The first half-century of Title IX — 1972’s gender-equality law that banned sex-based discrimination in federally funded educational institutions — saw women’s sports in America undergo a period of profound growth and evolution. The succinct legislation essentially required school sports programs to offer equal opportunities to women, relative to their male counterparts, and the effect […]