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Ashley Hansen set to give up softball

Whether such a scenario is something to celebrate in the current climate of skepticism about college athletics or lament as a lost opportunity for an athlete and sport is up for debate. The best college player in her sport last season, Ashley Hansen will play her final game for Stanford in the coming days, perhaps as soon as this weekend in a difficult NCAA tournament regional in Louisiana. But 40 years after Title IX, as college softball begins its march toward a championship in Oklahoma City that grows bigger and bigger by the year, it's a bittersweet reality. And if the game doesn't come in the Women's College World Series, most people won't seize that opportunity.

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