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Game Changers: Women in Sports Business10 / 08 / 12W omen have been front and center for some of sports’ premier story lines in 2012. June marked the 40th anniversary of the landmark federal legislation known as Title IX. The year also brought us the London Olympics, with no shortage of headlines from American athletes succeedi... Tags: Game Changers |
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