Tennessee settles Title IX lawsuit
Tennessee is paying $2.48 million to settle a lawsuit filed by eight unidentified women who said the school had violated Title IX regulations and created a “hostile sexual environment” through a policy of indifference toward assaults by athletes.
Lawyers for the school and the plaintiffs issued a joint news release announcing the settlement. The payment will be split equally between Tennessee’s athletic department and the school’s central administration. Lawyers representing the school said no taxpayer dollars, student fees or donor funds would fund the settlement.
Six women filed the suit in federal court in Nashville on Feb. 9. Two more plaintiffs added their names to an amended complaint two weeks later.
Title IX, a federal statute, bans discrimination at schools that receive federal funding. NHL: The Wild signed goalie Darcy Kuemper to a one-year, $1.55 million contract.
Kuemper, 26, went 6-7-5 with a .915 save percentage and a 2.43 goals-against average for Minnesota last season. He has played in 84 games over the past four seasons with the Wild and is 3-1-1 with 2.13 goals-against in nine playoff starts.
Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher said the team was looking at trading Kuemper before the draft, but the market has cooled since then and now Kuemper slots in behind Devan Dubnyk and former Shark Alex Stalock on the depth chart.
The Blues re-signed forward Magnus Paajarvi to a one-year, $700,000 contract. The 2009 first-round draft pick was acquired from Edmonton in 2013.
The Devils signed free-agent left wing Luke Gazdic and resigned restricted free-agent center Jacob Josefson.
Josefson, 25, got a one-year, $1.1 million contract. Gazdic, 26, signed a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000. College football: Boston College will retire the jerseys of Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan and Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly during the 2016 season.
Kuechly’s jersey will be retired at the Eagles’ Oct. 22 game against Syracuse. Ryan will be honored at the Nov. 19 game against Connecticut.
Kuechly was the most decorated defensive player in BC history after leading the nation in tackles for two seasons in a row. Ryan led BC as high as No. 2 in the Associated Press Top 25 in 2007. College basketball: Duke radio broadcaster Bob Harris is retiring at the end of the men’s basketball season. Harris, entering his 41st season at Duke, was behind the microphone for all five of Duke’s national championships in men’s basketball. Water polo: San Jose State named Gabor Sarusi the head coach of its women’s program. Sarusi, who played at USC, had been an assistant coach for the Spartans’ men’s team.