21.   Athletic departments across the United States are having to take drastic measures to come into compliance, sometimes even eliminating longtime and well established male programs such as baseball.

22.   Athletic departments for years have been handling everything from parking tickets to pregnancies.

23.   Athletic departments need full-time compliance officers to stay on top of NCAA rules.

24.   Athletic departments, Dempsey said, are already struggling financially to sponsor a broad-based program, comply with Title IX and stay self-sufficient.

25.   Athletic director Andy Noel offered Thompson a position as special assistant for development in the athletic department.

26.   Bailey and an athletic department spokesman, Mark Stillwell, were generous in their praise for Burnett.

27.   At UCLA, students bemoaned the loss, the second shock in a week for the athletic department.

28.   Athletic department spokesman Matt Santos insisted that Roseberry is not intended to be a sideshow.

29.   Athletic departments around the country are filled with entry- level workers who are wasting the college opportunity in the vainglorious pursuit of a place in professional ball.

30.   Athletic departments figure to be frugal.