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In N.Y., Ken Belson in a front-page piece notes a review of seven NFL cheerleader handbooks revealed "personal hygiene tips, like shaving techniques and the proper use of tampons." In some cases, "wearing sweatpants in public is forbidden." Across the NFL, teams even "try to place extensive controls on how cheerleaders conduct their lives outside work." This includes "limiting their social media activity as well as the people they choose to date and socialize with." Those rules and additional work requirements have "fueled another public relations headache for the NFL," after it was revealed last week that Bailey Davis, the cheerleader the Saints dismissed in January, filed a complaint with the EEOC "claiming unfair treatment" (N.Y. TIMES, 4/3).

ON THE RISE: In N.Y., Larry Brooks noted NHL goals per game are "up to nearly six, with 13 of the league’s 31 teams averaging three or more a night." This will be the NHL’s "highest-scoring season" since '05-06. Coaching is "too good ... and goaltending is too good for the league to ever go back to the offensive explosion of the late ’70s to early ’90s when games generally featured 7-8 goals a night." But this does "appear to be trending in the right direction" (N.Y. POST, 4/2).

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