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• Residents of Mansfield, MA are not happy with a new salon about to be opened in their town. "Knockouts" is a Texas-based chain that offers "haircuts for men" from women dressed in boxing gear. • More »
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There's an article on the Reuters Blogs today asking whether women should be allowed to box in the London Olympics in 2012. To be honest, I didn't realize women were not allowed to box. They can weightlift, run, dive play basketball, field hockey, do judo, fence and participate the Modern Pentathalon, but they can't box? It wasn't always so: Apparently there was women's boxing in the 1904 Olympics. And the International Boxing Association women’s commission vice-chairwoman, Bettan Andersson, believes having women’s boxing at the Olympics would help improve the overall image of the sport: "If women come in, people will feel the sport is more common, not so dangerous, and that would be a very good thing for the image of boxing," she says. More »
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