Fresno State Grapples With a Spate of Sex-Discrimination Claims

Advocates of gender equity in athletics say they will continue to use the courts to force compliance with Title IX

College athletics departments are no strangers to accusations of sex discrimination. But lately the department at California State University at Fresno has become all too familiar with them.

In July a jury ordered Fresno State to pay $5.85-million to a former women's volleyball coach who had sued the university for sex discrimination and retaliation. She said her

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