Arizona State continued to show sensitivity and acute public relations skills by cutting three sports from the university yesterday to save money. Men’s wrestling, men’s tennis, and men’s swimming have been sliced from the actuarial tables, resetting the team totals to eight men’s and 12 women’s squads.

Of course, these cuts follow the recent and oddly-timed move by ASU VP for Athletics Lisa Love to move the cheerleading squad under the marching band’s supervision just after a few curious photos appeared on the Internet. We wonder how much money was saved by that decision.

Announcement of the cuts came rather abruptly for the three teams. For example, the swimmers found out by email they could paddle their wares elsewhere. The communities for each sport have reacted strongly to the news and efforts are underway already to try to save each program.
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