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  • A Woman Speaks Up for Injured NFL Players


    A post from DoubleX writer Meredith Simons:

    Congressional committee hearings are usually the domain of dark-suited men speaking in carefully-modulated tones. So Gay Culverhouse, who showed up to a House Judiciary Committee meeting in an unapologetically purple suit and spoke with both intelligence and anger, was startling. Culverhouse, a former president of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, wasn’t a breath of fresh air; she was a bracing gust of wind as she outlined the ways in which (in her view) the NFL abuses and then abandons its players ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)

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  • Defending Lingerie Football


    A post from Double X writer Greg Beato: 

    It didn’t take long for the Lingerie Football League to live up to the low expectations of its critics. All spring long, LFL personnel had been promising serious hard-hitting action among skilled players who just happened to be sexy women. But in early September, when the Chicago Bliss kicked off the season against the Miami Caliente, the highlight was a new contribution to gridiron strategy: stripping the passer. “Our QB, Anonka Dixon, had her bra top ripped off,” Caliente running back Michelle Stevens exclaimed in a postgame interview. “Three girls from Chicago jumped on her after the play was already over and shredded her top to pieces. There she sat, topless on the field, and for no other reason than she is an unbelievable player and a huge threat to Chicago’s defense,  they wanted to take her out of the game” ... (Read more in DoubleX.)

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