OSU May Cut Sports to Save Money

In today's Oregonian, Paul Buker reports that some sports programs may be on the chopping block at Oregon State University:

A report this week from Oregon State athletic director Bob De Carolis paints a grim picture of how the economic downturn could influence sports on the Corvallis campus, including potentially killing some teams...

Recently Oregon State has been paring its $47 million athletic department budget, which helps fund 17 sports, to better weather an economy that has hobbled even big-time athletic departments across the nation.

Earlier this year, PSU announced it would cut wrestling.