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There's No Boxing Day For Olympic Women In Beijing

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 »

12:30 PM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By Dodai
1,750 views, 131 comments

Latest by whereismymind: There is no Olympic Baseball for Women either. Just softball, because apparently were only able to play at the same more »

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Angelina's Unborn Kids Already Making Money

  • Photographs of Angelina Jolie's (now) unborn babies could be worth a whopping $10 million. An editor who remains anonymous actually says: "It's at the point now where some stars might decide to have more kids just to collect the money from their photos." Hahahahahaha. No. [Page Six]
  • By the by, People's issue with La Lopez twins sold between 2 and 3 million copies; Nicole Richie's cover sold 1.8 million; Christina Aguilera's sold 1.3 million. [ONTD]
  • Russell Simmons and wife Kimora have filed for divorce — again. He filed in March 2006, but the proceedings never um, proceeded. In any case, since they have such intertwined careers and businesses, this should be interesting. [TMZ]
  • They secretly went out two years ago, and now Matthew Perry has rekindled his relationship with Mean Girls actress Lizzy Caplan (she played Janis Ian). She's 13 years younger than he is and it's a "friends with benefits" type thing. [Janet Charlton's Hollywood]
  • Tina Fey wants Ashley Dupre, aka Kristen, to be on 30 Rock. A skit involving Jack? Or Kenneth? [Page Six]
  • Here's video of Ashley Dupre telling a Girls Gone Wild cameraman that she is over 18 and her name is Amber Arpalo. [TMZ]
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9:00 AM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Dodai
5,351 views, 160 comments

Latest by TheJerseyDevil: @amandahugnkiss: Wawa is the Neiman Marcus of convenience stores. The stores are always clean and bright and their sandwiches more »