Title IX is in the news again this week. The Commission on Opportunity in Athletics will turn in its report on Title IX to Education Secretary Rod Paige. Those that are not happy with the work of the Commission are raising a big stink and continuing to try to stop the recommendations of the panel.    Here's a big surprise (smirk). Two of the Commissioners, Julie Foudy and Donna De Varona, will not sign off on the final report. They will issue their own "minority report" which they plan to give to Secretary Paige themselves. Certainly, this new "minority report" will be duplicated in mass, and given to the media and to every politician with an address.    The actions of Foudy and De Varona have been so predictable that nobody should be reacting with any surprise to them. Nor should anybody give their positions much weight, either. Right from the start, you could have figured out what they might do in this process.     Foudy and De Varona have been obstructionists in the Commission process all the way through. There is no doubt that they had their minds made up even before the first meeting, before any of the testimony was heard, before any of the open debates between Commissioners. They had one goal from the get-go: keep the proportionality quota in place and roadblock any changes to the status quo.    When it all played out, Foudy and De Varona were basically just puppets of the quota advocate groups. They followed a script, and will continue to do so as the issue moves past the Commission into the government agencies.    The quota advocates keep complaining that the Commission was rigged. This is baloney. However, it is amazing that the Bush Administration chose Foudy and De Varona to serve in the first place. In placing them in the process, they gave the quota advocates their own foothold, a powerful roadblock in the process.    Foudy is the current president of the Women's Sports Foundation, the most vocal sports quota advocate organization. De Varona was a founder of the Women's Sports Foundation and has remained an active leader within its ranks. While the Bush Administration put these two biased individuals on the Commission, there were no representatives from the groups seeking Title IX reform, nor were there any representatives from the affected men's Olympic sports.  If the selection of Commissioners was unfair, it was unfair against men's Olympic sports interests.    Both Foudy and De Varona were outspoken and opinionated on the Commission and their views on the subject from the announcement of the panel in June right until this morning. When the Commission was announced, quotes by Foudy and DeVarona were included in a position statement distributed by the Women's Sports Foundation. Every chance they got, from city to city, both spoke to the press in a very opinionated way. In September, USA Wrestling even had to send a letter of protest to the Commission Co-Chairpersons blasting De Varona for inaccurate and malicious statements in the Chicago Sun-Times about wrestling. Once the floor opened up at the Commission hearings, Foudy and De Varona hogged the microphone with complaints and problems.     Foudy was blatant in her efforts to parrot the position of the Women's Sports Foundation and the National Women's Law Center during the hearings. Like the great athlete that she is, Foudy kept right to the game plan. You could almost sense the invisible strings from Foudy to the leaders of the quota advocate groups seating in the front of the audience at each of the Commission sessions.    Some of the other Commissioners got on Foudy about her obstructionist activities in each meeting. Debbie Yow chided Foudy that she needed to "compromise" and that she would "not get her way every time." Lisa Keegan made a strong statement against those who were making outlandish remarks just "to get on the front page of the newspaper." The Commissioners were smart enough to figure out that Foudy was not calling the shots, and that she was being a good trooper for the special interest groups.    De Varona was another story. Clearly, she was a strong supporter of the quota advocates. However, as a former Olympian, she has announced dreams of becoming the president of the U.S. Olympic Committee. She can throw those aspirations away after her performance at these Title IX hearings. All of the Olympic sports with endangered men's programs will stand united against her leading the Olympic family. She often spoke about the loss of men's programs and how they should be able to fundraise to survive, giving the male Olympians lip service. But, when push came to shove, she voted down the line with the quota advocates, basically leaving the Olympic sports out to dry.    Somebody from the inside was taking care of the quota advocate groups throughout the process. Since nobody can prove anything, it makes no sense to make any accusations. However, those on the inside can sure venture a guess on where the leaks came from. On many occasions, confidential Commission documents were leaked to the press at strategic times. It was interesting at the final meeting in Washington, D.C. how many of the quota advocate leaders had copies of unreleased confidential Commission documents in their hands, while some of the media and all of those seeking Title IX reform did not. When I pointed that out to a journalist, he found it amusing, then went over and sucked up to one of the quota advocates for a copy.    Anybody who attended a few Commission meetings could tell you that Foudy and DeVarona would not sign off on the final report. Some of us expected them to walk out in a huff during the final Washington, D.C. meeting when the votes went against them. However, the game plan apparently was for them to stay through the hearings, then make their big statements when the documents were completed.    After the votes were finished in Washington, D.C., the meeting was mostly over. However, Foudy spent many minutes trying to get some wording changed in the document that would favor the quota advocates. There was one very important issue that she concentrated on. She wanted the report to reflect that men had gained college sports opportunity. This issue was in constant debate and had never been settled. Time and time again, it was pointed out that the raw statistics were misleading and that we could show loss of men's opportunity. The "men athletes per campus" statistic shot down their position very well. However, the quota advocates trumpeted one of the three GAO reports (the one that helped their position) and continued to claim that men had gained. If Foudy had been able to get that into the report, she would have undermined the efforts of the majority of the Commission that understood about the erosion of men's opportunities.    For days before the Washington meeting, Foudy and De Varona tried to push through the concept of a "minority report." De Varona even said that she was participating "under protest." This was denied, but the Commission conceded that a minority position statement would be included in every vote that was not unanimous. Clearly, this was not enough for Foudy and De Varona. From that point on, you knew they were going to write their own minority report, even if the government did not accept it. And just who do you think wrote this soon-to-be-released minority report? Do you think Foudy had time to do that after soccer practice? Do you think De Varona worked all night after her radio and television assignments on this kind of report? Of course not. I would bet my house that the report was written by the same quota advocate leaders who were pulling the strings and playing their games throughout the process.    So where are we? Today, Co-Chair Ted Leland stood up and defended the Commission Report. Soon, this minority report will be plastered all over the world, with the accompanying screaming and crying and stomping of feet. The quota advocates have already said their next step is to go to Congress with this. They have already pulled in Democrats Tom Daschle, Teddy Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi and others to help spread their lies. The fight has left the sports world and i