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Volleyball tournament takes over downtown Phoenix

Posted on: June 25, 2012 by Sports Roundtable No Comments

Approximately 5,800 girls from 11 states and five countries will be participating in one of the larger volleyball tournaments in the world this week at the Phoenix Convention Center. The 29th Annual Volleyball Festival Championships, which features 550 teams of girls in seven age divisions from 12 to 18 years old, starts Tuesday evening, June [...]

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Tags: 29th Annual Volleyball Festival Championships, Arizona, girls volleyball, Misty May-Treanor, Phoenix, Phoenix Convention Center, women's volleyball

Title IX turns 40

Posted on: June 17, 2012 by Sports Roundtable 1 Comment

A little over a year ago, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion before the Women Law Students’ Association at Arizona State University. The panel that preceded mine featured Judge Mary Schroeder of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Chief Justice Rebecca White Berch of the Arizona Supreme Court. Judge Schroeder [...]

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Tags: Chaparral girls lacrosse, Chaparral High School, Cheief Justice Rebecca White Berch, Judge Mary Schroeder, Katie Drake, Richard Nixon, Saguaro High School, Saguaro track and field, Title IX

Bulletin board wisdom

Posted on: June 6, 2012 by Sports Roundtable No Comments

Last weekend, I attended the 200th anniversary of Hamilton College in upstate New York. I graduated from Hamilton in 1978 as part of its last all male class. Much has changed at Hamilton during the last 34 years. There are new buildings, improved facilities, bigger trees and in 2008 the college won its first NCAA [...]

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