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Was Ines Sainz’ attire appropriate for a locker room?

As you probably have heard, the Jets are being investigated by the NFL for unbecoming conduct towards reporter/personality Ines Sainz, who was in the Jets’ locker room interviewing Mark Sanchez.

Clinton Portis chimed in and defended the players, and has since apologized. Here’s a picture of what Sainz was wearing that day.

Is that appropriate for a locker room? Some argue that for the hour that the locker room is open to the media, it is their workplace as well, and just because someone is wearing super-tight jeans, it doesn’t give the players the right to hoot and holler.

Agreed. But should she go into the locker room dressed like that in the first place?

For her part, Sainz has downplayed the incident, but has said that she thought the players acted inappropriately.

What does she expect? She walks into a testosterone-filled room wearing skin tight jeans that shows every single one of her considerable curves (presumably to draw attention to her figure) and of course guys are going to react.

Provocative attire provokes.

Here’s an interview with Sainz where she describes what happened:

2010 Fantasy Football: Week 2 Rankings

NEW ORLEANS - SEPTEMBER 09: Quarterback Drew Brees  of the New Orleans Saints at Louisiana Superdome on September 9, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

These rankings are for a standard scoring system (non-PPR).

Quarterbacks

1. Drew Brees (NO @ SF)
2. Aaron Rodgers (GB vs. BUF)
3. Peyton Manning (IND vs. NYG)
4. Philip Rivers (SD vs. JAC)
5. Tony Romo (DAL vs. CHI)
6. Michael Vick (PHI @ DET)
7. Jay Cutler (CHI @ DAL)
8. Donovan McNabb (WAS vs. HOU)
9. Tom Brady (NE @ NYJ)
10. Joe Flacco (BAL @ CIN)
11. Matt Schaub (HOU @ WAS)
12. Matt Ryan (ATL vs. ARI)
13. Eli Manning (NYG @ IND)
14. Jason Campbell (OAK vs. STL)
15. Kyle Orton (DEN vs. SEA)
16. Brett Favre (MIN vs. MIA)
17. David Garrard (JAC @ SD)
18. Matt Hasselbeck (SEA @ DEN)
19. Vince Young (TEN vs. PIT)
20. Chad Henne (MIA @ MIN)
21. Carson Palmer (CIN vs. BAL)
22. Matt Cassel (KC @ CLE)
23. Derek Anderson (ARI @ ATL)
24. Alex Smith (SF vs. NO)
25. Josh Freeman (TB @ CAR)
26. Dennis Dixon (PIT @ TEN)
27. Seneca Wallace (CLE vs. KC)

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Yao Ming’s minutes will be limited…all season

Rocket's Luis Scola #4 and Yao Ming #11 as the Lakers beat the Rockets 89-70 during game seven of a Western Conference semi-final playoff basketball game between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center on Sunday May 17, 2009 in Los Angeles Photo via Newscom

Per the Houston Chronicle

Yao will play no more than 24 minutes per game, Rockets vice president and athletic trainer Keith Jones said. There will be no exceptions. If Yao has played his 24 minutes and the Rockets have the ball and eight seconds on the clock to make up a one-point deficit, Yao will not play those eight seconds.

Yao’s playing time will not average 24 minutes; it will end there. If he plays 22 minutes in one game, he will not play 26 the next. For that matter, if he plays two minutes one game, he will not play 26 the next. When Yao reaches his 24 minutes, he will be through for that game.

The article goes on to suggest that things could change in the playoffs, but the Rockets are bound and determined to get their big man to April fully healthy.

After missing just two games in his first three seasons, Yao has missed 173 of the next 410 games over the following five seasons, or 42% of his team’s games. What good is a franchise center if the guy can’t make it through the season without some sort of season-ending ailment?

That’s why the Rockets are so intent on limiting his workload. They hope that by reducing his minutes throughout the season, it will enable him to be healthy enough in the postseason.

Black Eyed Peas to play at halftime of 2011 Super Bowl

BARCELONA, SPAIN - JULY 03: Fergie and Apl.De.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas perform on stage at the RCD Espanyol Stadium on July 3, 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Javier Fernandez Del Corral/Getty Images)

SPORTSbyBROOKS is reporting that the Black Eyed Peas will be the featured act at halftime of Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium.

The choice makes a lot of sense, actually. After Janet Jackson’s ‘wardrobe malfunction,’ the Super Bowl has gotten more conservative in recent years, tapping such acts as Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen and the Who. (Only Prince in 2007 would be described as somewhat ‘edgy.’) The Black Eyed Peas are more relevant, but they’re mainstream enough to entertain a wide variety of people.

Predicted Setlist: 1. Let’s Get It Started, 2. Where’s the Love, 3. Boom Boom Pow, 4. I Got a Feeling

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