Topic: football

42-Year-Old Cheerleader Gets Movie Made About Her Life

42-Year-Old Cheerleader Gets Movie Made About Her Life

Folks, the bar for being a MILF has just been raised. At 42, Laura Vikmanis is the oldest cheerleader in NFL history, and now, she’s getting a movie made about her life story.

The Huffington Post reports that Vikmanis, a former dancer, was down in the dumps after her husband left her. Then, while attending a football game, she saw the cheerleaders on the sidelines and realized that shaking her moneymaker might be just the thing she needed to pull her out of her personal doldrums More »

Pet Peeve: Sexualization in the Media of Victims of Assault

Pet Peeve: Sexualization in the Media of Victims of Assault

As we all know, the Super Bowl is upon us. And with every Super Bowl comes the obligatory rehashing of the major players’ histories of criminal charges, or, in some cases, still-pending criminal charges. Good old-fashioned American fun!

Anyway, of course the most prominent rapist player-with-a-past to look out for this year is Ben Roethlisberger, who has a series of sexual assault charges against him, some of which have been dropped.

In my brief research about this charmer, one of the first things I came across was this gem of a sentence from writer Russell Goldman at ABC News:

“‘Big Ben’ Roethlisberger dodged prosecution earlier this week when a Georgia district attorney announced that he could not prove that the quarterback had raped a 20-year-old sorority girl in a nightclub bathroom.”

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5 Things You Can Do Besides Watch The Super Bowl

5 Things You Can Do Besides Watch The Super Bowl

That’s right, I said it. I don’t want to watch the Super Bowl. I DON’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT FOOTBALL.

What I do like, though — and the primary reason I go to Super Bowl parties in the first place — is to eat delicious, unhealthy food. So along those lines, here are five very enjoyable things that I might do instead of watching the Super Bowl, that you can do too: More »

Exclusive: Behind the Uniforms of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

Exclusive: Behind the Uniforms of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

CMT’s reality show Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team, about choosing the members of the most famous group of cheerleaders ever, is a total guilty pleasure. However, the offscreen drama is often way more interesting than what gets shown on TV. Much of the drama on and off screen centers around Kelli Finglass, director of the DCC organization, and Judy Trammell, the DCC choreographer, since they’re the people who choose which girls make the team.

Our informant – we’ll call her Yellow Rose – gives us all the scoop on Mean Girls, body issues, and double standards in the DCC. More »

Why Choosing Not to Wear Pink During Breast Cancer Awareness Month Doesn’t Mean Anything

Why Choosing Not to Wear Pink During Breast Cancer Awareness Month Doesn't Mean Anything

So apparently last week Sean Combs (too lazy to Google his current nickname) hosted an event to benefit breast cancer charities in Long Island. Some of the proceeds will go to 1 in 9: The Long Island Breast Cancer Coalition and the LIPSG Foundation. Combs is no stranger to raising money for breast cancer (or philanthropic work in general, for that matter), having at one point created a hot pink slip for charity through his clothing line, Sean John for Breast Cancer Care. So Combs hosted this event, presumably got some press for it, probably invited some famous friends, and certainly raised some money to benefit a great cause. And, uh, people are really angry at him. Why? Because he didn’t wear pink. More »

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