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NET LOSS: Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball...

By John Needham, John Weyler and Lisa Mascaro

NET LOSS: Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball coach Jim Huffman hopes to spike the school’s plan to drop the sport. . . . “There are more women than men at the school, and the men currently get 200% more funding,” says lawyer J. Kirk Boyd, hired by Huffman. State law requires equal participation and money for men’s and women’s sports, Boyd says, and dropping women’s volleyball “will just make the disparity worse.” Boyd hopes to persuade a judge to order the plans stopped at least temporarily.

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Lisa Mascaro

Lisa Mascaro previously covered Congress in Washington, D.C., for the Los Angeles Times. She left in February 2018. A Los Angeles-area native, she has reported across Southern California, edited, traveled the States and worked in Texas. While the Washington correspondent for the Las Vegas Sun, she contributed as the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. An economics and political science graduate of UC Santa Barbara, she also studied in Budapest, Hungary.

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