This Just Can't Wait Until Tomorrow
I had fully intended to sit back, relax, and do no more posting on the site tonight. Until I stumbled across this gem of a story. It's truly, truly amazing what passes for sports news these days. Thank the good Lord above.
Ex-NYR cheerleader claims she was forced to stuff bra (AP)O.K. Let's stop there. I find it extremely hard to believe that (a) a male in sports would be a sexual predator, (b) that guy would be working in hockey, (c) that this occurred in New York City, (d) that this could ever happen to a
Madison Square Garden must turn over notes and e-mails from an internal investigation in the case of a former New York Rangers cheerleader who claims she had to stuff her bra and at least one member of management was a sexual predator, a judge said.
[Courtney] Prince, 29, the former captain of the New York Rangers' cheerleading squad, sued MSG in October 2004. Prince said she was fired on Jan. 22, 2004 after she warned fellow cheerleaders that at least one member of management was a sexual predator.Seriously? C'mon man, you gotta have better game than that if you want to score with a
According to the lawsuit, MSG managers and supervisors took some of the dozen cheerleaders to bars and restaurants and bought alcohol for some underage cheerleaders.
Prince accused one member of management of trying to stick his tongue down her throat and asking her to have sex at a bar following a post-game party on Dec. 22, 2003.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has recommended that MSG have its employees undergo sexual harassment discrimination training and pay Prince $800,000 in damages.$800 grr? I gotsta get sexual harrassed so I can sit on my arse and do nothing for awhile.
Also, did anyone else know that there were cheerleaders in ice hockey? Seriously. That's the first I have heard of it, but then again, hockey is on Versus.
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