`We thought this was just the beginning.´ A new book relives Niles West´s 1979 girls basketball state title. Author Melissa Isaacson says progress 40 years later has `been disappointing during various times.´
(Chicago Tribune Religion News)

As a sixth-grader, Melissa Isaacson peered through the gym doors watching seventh-graders try out for the first girls basketball team in Lincolnwood, the result of a new federal law called Title IX. `I knew I was just as good if not better,` Isaacson recalled. `They set the girls in the old rickety...