IX turned 50 on June 23, 2022, as the Biden administration announced sweeping changes that would offer protections for LGBTQ students and athletes as well as survivors of sexual assault.

The New-York Historical Society looks back on the landmark gender equality legislation and how it transformed women’s access to education, sports and more.

The large development within the variety of girls in high school and school athletics — greater than three million in the present day, from 300,000 in 1972 — led to the rising professionalization of, and curiosity in, girls’s sports activities, and the objects within the exhibition exhibit that depth and development: Billie Jean King’s tennis racket, the 1984 Olympic gold medal winner Mary Lou Retton’s gymnastics slipper, Serena Williams’s tennis costume, jerseys from skilled girls’s basketball and soccer groups and a basketball Barbie doll.

There is no question the NCAA women's tournament has grown over the past 40 years, but in many ways, the progress “has stagnated, compared with how the men's has soared,” according to Megan Ryan of the Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE.

The event coming to Target Center this week has evolved since the first women's Final Four in 1982, but the biggest change has been in media coverage.

Nancy Lough is the driving force behind UNLV’s new sport management master’s degree program. The program, which began in the fall semester, boasts over a dozen students, and Lough thinks it can grow to be one of the most coveted degrees of its kind in the country.

A look back at some of the best discussions from Nevada Week in 2021.

A Las Vegas company is getting in on the ground floor of promoting and marketing college athletes, and a number of UNLV players are already cashing in.