As UC Berkeley is set to announce Thursday whether the campus will cut five sports teams, The New York Times reported Tuesday that UC Berkeley may be required to reinstate the five teams to avoid violating Title IX regulations, though the campus remains adamant that it is in compliance with the law.

The Penn State men’s gymnastics team, owners of 12 National Championships, most in the NCAA, has something else to set its sights on. The NCAA Gymnastics Committee selected Penn State University to host the 2013 National Collegiate Championships at Rec Hall on Monday.

With recurring budget cuts occurring throughout California, the athletic department at U. California-Berkeley has also been faced with unfortunate financial drawbacks. Due to the possibility of the Chancellor cutting large chunks of money out of the athletic department, some sports may be dropped.

As the campus Department of Intercollegiate Athletics is set to begin a major overhaul to reverse its history of over-spending millions of dollars, concern is rising about whether U. California-Berkeley’s men’s gymnastics team will be put on the chopping block.

The freshmen of the Iowa men’s gymnastics no longer stand out. They don’t isolate themselves from the rest of the team, and they don’t wait for permission to practice their routines.