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Nick Mangold’s Weightlifting Sister Heading To London
Bruce Tenen
8 Mar 2012

Holley Mangold makes Olympic weightlifting teamA sibling of star New York Jets center Nick Mangold just made the US Olympic team last weekend.

Holley Mangold, Nick’s sister, captured one of two spots on the women's weightlifting team, which will compete in London this summer.  She clinched her spot by lifting 319 pounds during the clean-and-jerk portion of the event. 

Holley Mangold played high school varsity football in the Dayton, Ohio area and competed in shot put and discus at Ursuline College near Cleveland. Since then, she has taken up weightlifting. 

Holley Mangold is 5-8 and weighs in at around 370 pounds. By comparison, brother Nick comes in at 6-4 and 307 pounds.

Holley Mangold
2012 Summer Olympics
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Three Pac-12 Schools Offer Football Scholarship To Ninth Grader
Bruce Tenen
6 Mar 2012

Kevin Dillman Ninth Grade QBQuarterback Kevin Dillman of La Mirada High School (CA) received scholarship offers from Louisville, Colorado, UCLA and California recently. Nothing unusual about that, except for the fact that Dillman is in ninth grade and has never started a high school game.   

Last season, as a backup QB, Dillman completed 18 of 26 passes for 216 yards, while running for 103 yards on 16 carries. 

Dillman had competed in the USA Football Under-15 International Development Week and coaches apparently saw his upside from the film. He cannot sign a national letter of intent with any university until February of 2015.   

Kevin Dillman
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Fred Taylor’s Record-Breaking Son Heading To Gainesville
Bruce Tenen
23 Feb 2012

Fred Taylor’s Record-Breaking Son Kelvin TaylorKelvin Taylor gave the Florida Gators a verbal commitment last Saturday, choosing UF over the national champion Alabama Crimson Tide. Taylor comes to Gainesville with some pretty fair bloodlines.

Kelvin is the son of Fred Taylor, an All-American for Florida who went on to an outstanding career with the Jacksonville Jaguars. The elder Taylor played in the NFL for 13 seasons and ranks fifteenth on the NFL all-time rushing list with 11,695 yards.

Kelvin Taylor
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Snoop Dogg Bringing Pro Football Back To LA?
Bruce Tenen
19 Feb 2012

Snoop Dogg Ladies Arena Football LeagueThere have been dozens of stories about pro football returning to Los Angeles in the past 18 years, but this one may be actually heading somewhere. Leave it to Snoop Dogg to make it happen. 

Snoop told Yahoo! Sports that later this year he is buying the franchise for LA’s inclusion in the new eight-team Ladies Arena Football League. He added that the new league will be similar to the Lingerie Football League and that his team would be called the LA Riders.

"A lot of beautiful girls playing football, that's the closest thing we've got.  Hopefully we can get a real NFL franchise to the city of LA because we deserve it," said Snoop.

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Lingerie Football League
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Lingerie Football League & PETA Teaming Up?
Bruce Tenen
23 Dec 2011

PETA and Toronto Triumph join forcesWho knew that the women of the Lingerie Football League had anything in common with PETA? 

Ladies who play for the LFL’s Toronto Triumph are showing their support by opposing animal cruelty and the use of animal fur. 

Four members of the Triumph joined a demonstration in Toronto under signs that read "Bench Fur" and "Wearing fur is a personal foul." They also appeared in a video which urged shoppers to eliminate fur items from their holiday shopping lists.

Coming together, isn’t that the true spirit of the holiday season?

Lingerie Football League
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