Sports Law

Title VI (42 U.S.C. º 2000d) was passed as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI prohibits discrimination on ôthe basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal assistance.ö Title IX (20 U.S.C. ºº 1681-1688), enacted as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, basically extended the protections of Title VI to sex, ôNo person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.ö

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the regulating body for collegiate sports. The NCAA is an association of 1,200 colleges and universities that ôgoverns college sports, including determining student athletic eligibility, scholarship limits, and academic standards for athletes,ö (Richey, 1999, p. 1). Historically, discrimination lawsuits have been filed against individual colleges or universities by athletes alleging discrimination. Over the past few years, more and more athletes alleging discrimination are also bringing suit against the NCAA. This analysis will discuss the types of discrimination suits being b

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s by using a system that would exclude more African American freshman who might have been qualified for scholarships.ö In this case, Kelly Pryor, who received a scholarship to play soccer at San Jose State University, and Warren Spivey, who received a scholarship to play football for the University of Connecticut, both failed to meet the minimum SAT requirements of the NCAAÆs Proposition 48. Pryor received a waiver to play on the team but not compete her first year, while Spivey did not receive a waver and acquired substantial debt unable to use his scholarship for his freshman year of college. In the Pryor case, Kelly Pryor maintained that because of her learning disability, the NCAA was in violation of Title VI, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities and Rehabilitation Act. NCAA Proposition 16, which also sets eligibility standards, is dhscriminatory in light of her learning disability, according to PryorÆs claims. In July, 2002, a U.S. Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania ruled in favor of the NCAA in Pryor v. NCAA, ruling that the NCAAÆs policy was not discriminatory, since it was ôpurposely formed to achieve a racially disparate impact, and since the students failed to allege intentional discrimination suffic
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