October 22, 2004

Wrestling Coaches Lose Challenge to Gender-Equity Rules

By WELCH SUGGS

Coaches of wrestling teams and other men's sports with dwindling participation lost the latest round in their lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education when a federal appeals court ruled this month that even though colleges may be eliminating men's sports to comply with the department's gender-equity guidelines, the department itself cannot be held liable for the cuts.

In an unusually contentious decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S.

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