March 17, 2000

'Revenue Sports' Support Other Sports

To the Editor:

I found the article titled "Foes of Title IX Try to Make Equity in College Sports a Campaign Issue" (February 4) interesting.

While I agree that dropping men's teams to create gender balance sometimes occurs, I also believe that many of these teams are dropped to increase funding for revenue sports. In light of the evidence presented in my article in the January issue of the Journal of Sport Management, that profits from Division I-A

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