Day 327: Starting With Two Similar Stories...

 Let's see if you can catch the common thread in these two:

• Should've posted this one a few days ago when it came out, but almost glad I didn't now.  A Northwestern cheerleader has sued the university for being paraded around like a "sex kitten".

There are going to be those who are going to say "That's what you signed up for, missy.", and I hope the judge here is not one of them.

That said, however, maybe FINALLY we are going to confront the use of supposed "cheerleaders" in our schools -- and don't think this is limited to the colleges.  I remember, my freshman year in small-town Wisconsin high-school, a senior football player put a plastic hockey stick square up a cheerleader's skirt IN PUBLIC.  Nothing was done to him.

Why?  I think you know your answer.

Reminds me of the cheerleader (I want to say she was in Texas, IIRC.) who got raped by a member of the basketball team, sued to keep him off the team and refuse to cheer for him (and was fired for doing so), lost on grounds she (as a cheerleader) is only an instrument of the school and MUST do as they ask, and had to pay their legal fees up on top of it.   

• And this gem today from Deadspin:  It now appears there is FAR MORE to the story of the New York Mets than we knew.  Former manager Mickey Callway has been sexually harassive in at least three MLB franchises, and that his sexual harassment spread all the way to this just-concluded season as a pitching coach with the Angels!!!

And a colonic, Deadspin?  Try an amputation, in exactly the part of men's bodies you would suspect!!!   

• And, unlike the Mets, the Angels have only SUSPENDED Callaway.
• EA Sports is back in the college football game.  Too bad college football is all but moribund at this point.   
• In the "You have got to be KIDDING ME" Department:  A small businessman clothes retailer in New York received a most interesting shipment from China.  Specially-made hockey sticks -- the tallest imaginable.  Why?  Because they were going to be used in professional games by Zdeno Chara!!  Somehow, the goofs in China mixed this clothier up with the Washington Capitals hockey team!  The team and the clothier are in contact -- Chara will get his sticks, and the clothier will get something, to be determined.
• Sports Illustrated has given us the Good News and the Bad News.
• The Good News:  A new website design.
• The Bad News:  Behind a metered paywall.  BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...