Gender equity is about the numbers of bodies on the field, court, diamond, track or pitch, not the number of sports. That is why football is such a killer in the numbers game. I would assume that HSU might be able, heck, might be required to add some men's sports such as baseball or golf. Maybe equestrian.

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article215103170.html

(See my earlier gripe on the Sacramento Bee...this article is taken from the Modesto Bee. If I were a newspaper journalist I would be updating my resume everyday, and looking at a career in long haul trucking or the exciting world of allied health careers.)

Too bad about the 'Jacks, but as BlueGoldAg noted, D2 football is on its last breath in the west. I recall a few years ago that Humboldt had a game at a small school in Montana* and travelled by bus. As it is now they are in a conference with at least one Canadian team and the conference schedule is made up of home AND away games against all other conference members. Humboldt even played a team from Mexico within the last couple of years. With the Jacks dropping football the GNAC will be down to four teams - Central Washington, Western Oregon, Simon Fraser and Azusa Pacific. Azusa Pacific is an affiliate member for football only and as of 2019 will be the only D2 football team in California.

(*Small school in Montana may be redundant.)

And today Joe Davidson has an article about Big Sky media day. I put a link to it in the "Big Sky Kickoff 2018" thread...(but here it is again, https://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article215051045.html )

As print media dies its slow, agonizing death, (and as an old timer, I will miss it,) the Bee continues to get smaller and smaller and provide less and less original news. The same sports section that had the Doss article had only one other article by a Bee writer, in fact the same writer who wrote the Doss piece. Everything else in the sports section was a wire service article. I am not up to actually counting the articles or measuring the column inches, but I would hazard a guess that over 75% of the Bee's content is from other papers and wire services. Most of it has already been posted somewhere on the Internet for a day or two. The food section, the garden section, the movie reviews, are all from outside sources. There is no longer a restaurant reviewer. Unless one of the Kings' players has an ankle sprain, most of the articles in the sports section are from elsewhere. There is no longer a golf column on Wednesdays. Rarely a locally authored piece in the business section. Typical weekly paper is about 25 pages and costs $2.00. I have tried on two occasions to contact the Bee through its website to make changes in my subscription and to date have not received a reply.

But I digress, glad Joe Davidson is still there to provide the last faint echoes of reporting on local high school and college sports.

Wow, the Bee actually wrote something on Big Sky media day...
https://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article215051045.html

All things come to he who waits - Equestrian coach named: http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/genrel/071618aaa.html

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/hometown-report/article214374629.html

I have come to that point in life where I think that 73 is way too young to pass away.

Very confusing plea by the Bee. They really seem to be ready to kiss off the print edition, which may be the future of newspapers in any event. Article talks about the need for 45,000 new digital subscriptions.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article212796919.html

Many of the suggestions seem to have to do with digital delivery. Daily reports, consolidating the McClathcy newspaper reporting in the valley, shrinking the size of the already diminutive print edition....

And a digital subscription is now $130 a year. https://account.sacbee.com/static/subscribe/ Don't ask what a print subscription costs. Looking at the Bee website is like trying to understand a new car contract. Nothing tells the reader the actual price, only the introductory offers and the "from as low as...."

Meanwhile they lay off reporters and as noted, have abandoned local college sports.

Washington scores 2 in the bottom of the 10th to come from behind and defeat CSU Fullerton, 6-5. Huskies advance to the College World Series.

Fullerton ends up hosting Washington. They have split the first two games with the decider tomorrow. Winner advances to the College World Series.

Dated tomorrow! Back to the future.

NBA has to be an uphill battle if he struggled at an Australian pro league tryout, but wish him well.

Seems a lot of people, often coaches, lose their jobs because of "misstatements" in their resumes or applications. Don't need to deal with things that may be judgement calls or invite litigation when you can point out a clear cut factual error in the application.

"FAU reported it had more than doubled the number of athletes on its women’s track team from the previous year, but the team’s own website shows that was far from the case. The staggering numbers: FAU reported having 98 women’s track athletes. The roster showed no more than 43, and the team photo showed 38.

The 98 women, FAU claimed, occupied 222 roster spots on its cross country, indoor track and outdoor track teams, more than any women’s track program among the 127 major sports schools."

https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/gender-equality-fau-gave-feds-false-numbers-ranked-near-bottom/r1HcYrXaoDkiq5DbW8woOI/

Shocked that FAU would be involved in anything like this. UCD's mens basketball coach for the 1989-90 year was Lonnie Williams who had previously coached at FAU. He left Davis after one year under a cloud...as I recall there were allegations that he had fudged a bit on his application.

At least FAU has cleaned up their athletics with the hiring of Lane Kiffin as head football coach.

Remember about 15 years ago when Stanford's rugby club forfeited rather than play Cal? Two Stanford alums reacted to the news by donating a spare million or so to the school to upgrade the club, including building an outstanding rugby facility. Got a problem? Throw money at it until it goes away.

Would be nice to think Gates and Jobs might direct some spare cash (and a daughter?) to Davis. Less nice to think they might establish an equestrian facility on the Peninsula for the use of the Junior University...On the other hand it would help to have another school with an equestrian team in California, and since the home team provides horses, I bet Stanford would come up with some very nice ones.

So we may have assured at least a tie. Still nothing in print about making up the rain postponed softball game. Looking at team schedules, it will be hard to find a date, unless both teams miss the play-offs and they can tack a game on after the regular season....assuming NCAA rules permit that. Hornet website simply does not show the game and lists a maximum of 75 points. http://hornetsports.com/fan_info/causewaycup/2017-18
If that's the case, we've locked down a tie.

Old planes, poor maintenance, some scary incidents, some involving in-air cabin fires,...

Here's the article from CBS news, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/allegiant-air-the-budget-airline-flying-under-the-radar/

And in fairness, Allegiant's response, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/allegiant-air-60-minutes-defensive-2018-04-16/

"60 Minutes" ran a story on Allegiant Air a couple of weeks ago. Might be better to walk. Barefoot. At night. In dark clothing. Wearing blinders. On the wrong side of the road.