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LONDON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Valued Opinions, an online market research panel looked into the recent scandal surrounding the Pakistani cricket team and revealed its findings. Match fixing allegations have once again shocked the world by revealing the dark side of sport. While most sports ambassadors are true to the game, every now and then, someone, somewhere is named and shamed for their scandalous behaviour. Through its online polls, Valued Opinions uncovered whether allegations of...
PLAINVIEW, N.Y., July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- CheatConfession.com - the micro-blogging forum where users can anonymously fess up to cheating on a spouse or significant other - has chosen the top ten most entertaining reasons that users have posted for cheating on someone, which had the Cheat Confession staff dumbfounded: "I don't know, it seemed like a good idea at the time." - Idontknowwhy"I needed a good deal on the car!" - driveukrazy "She was a hot lesbian." - cheater2099 "Hacksaw gets what...
LOS ANGELES, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Cheaters Beware! Amongst the wave of digital age technology, CheaterAlert Inc. launches their innovative new website which vows to catch cheating partners. Driven by the first-ever relationship registry, the anonymous and free site enables members to find out if their lover is faithful, check on potential partners, share stories, and inform friends about deception. "I think society is sick and tired of seeing sex scandals everywhere they turn," explains...
NEW YORK, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- CheatConfession.com was created to be a forum where people involved in cheating can absolve themselves of some guilt, get advice from peers, or simply share their cheating ways by anonymously posting their confessions. People can also post stories of being cheated on. All posts are judged and voted on by other visitors. Anyone over the age of eighteen can post on CheatConfession.com. All content on the site is user generated and is intended for a mature...
RESTON, Va., April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS), an association of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, applauds the Obama administration and Vice President Biden for issuing a 'Dear Colleague' letter that withdraws a 2005 interpretation of Title IX policy. Colleges and Universities will no longer be able to rely on student surveys to prove they are meeting the requirements of Title IX....
PHILADELPHIA, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Fifteen female student-athletes who are members of Delaware State University's women's equestrian team have filed a class action suit challenging the university's recently announced elimination of their team at the conclusion of the 2009-2010 academic year. The student-athletes, represented by the Women's Law Project and Flaster/Greenberg, brought the lawsuit under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the federal law that prohibits sex...
LONDON, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sir Paul McCartney pledged "no return to cruelty" as he backed an IFAW in Action campaign to protect the ban on the cruel sport of hunting with dogs. Five years today since the Hunting Act came into force in England and Wales, Sir Paul speaks out in the new report 'No Return to Cruelty' by IFAW in Action, a part of the global International Fund for Animal Welfare movement. He said: "When the cruel and unnecessary 'sport' of hunting with dogs was...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Supreme Court has ruled recently that victims of sexual harassment by student athletes can now sue individuals -- including coaches and athletic directors -- as well as institutions. This ruling and recent court cases are bringing Title IX back into the spotlight. Thirty-seven years after it was first enacted, colleges and universities are reexamining their policies and adapting to recent court rulings. Tim Davis, professor of...
Research has shown how to motivate kids so they are much less likely to cheat, but the findings are often not put into practice, U.S. researchers said.We know when kids cheat, why kids cheat and how kids cheat, Eric Anderman, an expert on student cheating at Ohio State University, said in a statement.Anderman told the American Psychological Association meeting in Toronto that cheating among students is widespread and has been growing -- studies show up to 80 percent of high-achieving high...
Cheating has gone high-tech at a Catholic high school in Virginia where students allegedly used cell phones to share answers to a test, the principal says. At least 30 of the 100 seniors at Bishop Sullivan High School used cell phones cradled near their pockets to cheat on a test measuring their knowledge of modern forms of government, Principal Dennis Price told The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot. The test had been given to several class sections over the course of a day near the end of the...
