Temple to cut seven sports

Wow. I didn’t expect this:

PHILADELPHIA – December 6, 2013 (WPVI) — Temple University announced on Friday that it is cutting seven intercollegiate sports.

The sports being cut are: baseball, softball, men’s and women’s rowing, men’s gymnastics, men’s indoor track and field and men’s outdoor track and field.

Some 150 students will be affected and nine full-time coaches will lose their jobs, the university confirmed to Action News.