People of a certain age who grew up following college sports won’t have trouble recalling the sense of panic and dread that fell upon the country 42 years ago when an existential threat to athletics was unleashed upon the land.
The earth was about to shake, the alarmists told us, fearing the whole thing might come apart under the oppressive new federal policy that surrounded and then became an integral part of the NCAA.
It was called Title IX, a law designed to end gender discrimination, which had continued even after the Civil Rights Act of 1964.