Allegations at Minnesota Shouldn’t Deter Advances of Women in Athletics

After reading the sexual harassment allegations that forced Norwood Teague to resign as the athletic director at the University of Minnesota and the report of more allegations from a newspaper reporter who covers the Gophers’ men’s basketball team, I told a colleague in passing that Teague likely has acted this way for years. That may have been unfair, but the feeling was this type of behavior didn’t come out of the blue.

Although a new report does not have more lurid and lewd examples that surfaced in text messages from Teague, it does include more allegations of discrimination against women. On Monday, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported the University of Minnesota and Virginia Commonwealth University, where Teague served as athletic director for six years before he was hired by Minnesota in April 2012, paid a combined $300,000 in settlements relating to two complaints from former co-workers claiming gender discrimination.

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