One of the items the Washington Nationals plan to sell at their concession stands this season is the eight-pound “Strasburger,” named after pitcher Stephen Strasburg. “In a related story,” scribbled comedy writer Jim Barach, “the Yankees are thinking of naming their overpriced hot dogs after Alex Rodriguez.” … Former Boston closer Jonathan Papelbon, who’s now with the Philadelphia Phillies, recently recounted an incident when a Red Sox fan threw a prosthetic lower limb into the bullpen. Maybe the fan was hoping it would help a Boston batter leg out a triple.
This week’s wacky soccer story comes from Ukraine, where the country’s health ministry announced that fans planning to attend the European championship this summer should get vaccinated for measles, rubella, tuberculosis and other diseases. Just what soccer needs: More boosters … That’s more shots than you’d see in a typical soccer game … A strip club in Los Angeles donated $1,200 to the Lennox Little League to help it operate this season, but parents have refuse …

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Leading the charge is a cabaret-style show, Les Demimondes, by Torontoâs Operation Snatch (formerly The Scandelles), founded by former Montrealer Alexandra Tigchelaar. As Sasha, sheâs written a weekly sex-advice column for many years, performed as stripper Sasha Van Bon Bon, and laboured as a sex worker.
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Tigchelaarâs French equivalent could well be Gaëlle Bourges, a classically trained dancer and literature student who stripped for three years in a raunchy left-bank Paris âœthéâtre érotiqueâ along with Alice Roland and Marianne Chargois. In Montreal, the three perform Je baise les yeux, a forum in which each stripper is âœinterviewedâ by a âœmoderator,â Gaspard Delanoë.
âœUnlike North America, in Europe itâs not often that people discuss subjects that many disdain or concealâ explained Bourges by telephone from Nice, where she was recovering from the flu. âœOften men wonât tell their wives that they went to strip clubs.â
Confronting oneâs own sexual prejudices can lead to attitude changes, said Bourges, relating a story from her own experience. Sheâd begun stripping at 39 â old by strippersâ standards â and a young man who saw her was horrified.

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Former stripper says drug cops beat and robbed her
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By Sam Pazzano ,Toronto Sun First posted: Friday, February 24, 2012 05:24 PM CST | Updated: Friday, February 24, 2012 05:28 PM CST
Former Montreal stripper Aida Fagundo testifies on February 23, 2012 at the trial of five ex-Central Field Command drug squad officers. (PAM DAVIES/QMI Agency)
TORONTO - 
A former Montreal stripper who claims drug squad officers robbed and beat her never complained to anyone nor revealed any injuries the day it allegedly occurred, court heard Friday.
Defence lawyer Harry Black asked Aida Fagundo why she didn’t report the police brutality to several plainclothes cops and a female civilian who spoke with her after she was busted with $1 million worth of cocaine on Nov. 2, 1997.
Black said those employees had no connection with the drug squad officers, who she alleges struck her with a telephone book and pulled her hair to force her to confess to the cocaine trafficking.

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Ducarme Joseph is a case in point. The former head of the 67s â a street gang named after a bus route in St. Michel â narrowly escaped being shot dead in his Old Montreal clothing boutique in 2010.
As for their neighbourhoods of preference, gang members go where they can do business â anywhere there are bars, especially downtown, but also in the neighbourhoods where they live, from LaSalle to Montreal North, Mailloux said.
The fact the street gangs are working with organized crime means there are fewer turf wars, and hence less public violence, Mailloux added.
But the intractable problems, like the trafficking in girls to Ontario and the U.S., is frustrating for both Mailloux and Paris. There is less risk and more money in girls, says Paris, and organized crime groups provide the strip clubs in which to sell âœthe merchandise.â

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Ducarme Joseph is a case in point. The former head of the 67s – a street gang named after a bus route in St. Michel – narrowly escaped being shot dead in his Old Montreal clothing boutique in 2010.
As for their neighbourhoods of preference, gang members go where they can do business – anywhere there are bars, especially downtown, but also in the neighbourhoods where they live, from LaSalle to Montreal North, Mailloux said.
The fact the street gangs are working with organized crime means there are fewer turf wars, and hence less public violence, Mailloux added.
But the intractable problems, like the trafficking in girls to Ontario and the U.S., is frustrating for both Mailloux and Paris. There is less risk and more money in girls, says Paris, and organized crime groups provide the strip clubs in which to sell “the merchandise.”

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Ducarme Joseph is a case in point. The former head of the 67s â a street gang named after a bus route in St. Michel â narrowly escaped being shot dead in his Old Montreal clothing boutique in 2010.
As for their neighbourhoods of preference, gang members go where they can do business â anywhere there are bars, especially downtown, but also in the neighbourhoods where they live, from LaSalle to Montreal North, Mailloux said.
The fact the street gangs are working with organized crime means there are fewer turf wars, and hence less public violence, Mailloux added.
But the intractable problems, like the trafficking in girls to Ontario and the U.S., is frustrating for both Mailloux and Paris. There is less risk and more money in girls, says Paris, and organized crime groups provide the strip clubs in which to sell âœthe merchandise.â

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Former stripper says drug cops beat and robbed her
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By Sam Pazzano ,Toronto Sun First posted: Friday, February 24, 2012 04:24 PM MST | Updated: Friday, February 24, 2012 04:28 PM MST
Former Montreal stripper Aida Fagundo testifies on February 23, 2012 at the trial of five ex-Central Field Command drug squad officers. (PAM DAVIES/QMI Agency)
TORONTO - 
A former Montreal stripper who claims drug squad officers robbed and beat her never complained to anyone nor revealed any injuries the day it allegedly occurred, court heard Friday.
Defence lawyer Harry Black asked Aida Fagundo why she didn’t report the police brutality to several plainclothes cops and a female civilian who spoke with her after she was busted with $1 million worth of cocaine on Nov. 2, 1997.
Black said those employees had no connection with the drug squad officers, who she alleges struck her with a telephone book and pulled her hair to force her to confess to the cocaine trafficking.

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Former stripper says drug cops beat and robbed her
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By Sam Pazzano ,Toronto Sun First posted: Friday, February 24, 2012 04:24 PM MST | Updated: Friday, February 24, 2012 04:28 PM MST
Former Montreal stripper Aida Fagundo testifies on February 23, 2012 at the trial of five ex-Central Field Command drug squad officers. (PAM DAVIES/QMI Agency)
TORONTO - 
A former Montreal stripper who claims drug squad officers robbed and beat her never complained to anyone nor revealed any injuries the day it allegedly occurred, court heard Friday.
Defence lawyer Harry Black asked Aida Fagundo why she didn’t report the police brutality to several plainclothes cops and a female civilian who spoke with her after she was busted with $1 million worth of cocaine on Nov. 2, 1997.
Black said those employees had no connection with the drug squad officers, who she alleges struck her with a telephone book and pulled her hair to force her to confess to the cocaine trafficking.

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Stripper’s third day of cross-examination at cop corruption trial
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By Sam Pazzano ,Toronto Sun First posted: Friday, February 24, 2012 03:10 PM EST | Updated: Friday, February 24, 2012 04:57 PM EST
Former Montreal stripper Aida Fagundo testifies Thursday at the trial of at the trial of five ex-Central Field Command drug squad officers. (PAM DAVIES/Toronto Sun)
TORONTO - 
A former Montreal stripper who alleges drug squad officers beat and robbed her, exploited her dancing job as a cover for her lucrative sideline of selling cocaine, a defence lawyer charged Friday.
Defence lawyer Harry Black accused Aida Fagundo of moonlighting as a stripper at the Solid Gold club so she could sell cocaine and then launder the proceeds through her day job at a money transfer business.
“You went to the club to sell cocaine and then to your other job to transfer those funds,” said Black, who represents Steve Correia.

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Former stripper accused of being cocaine ‘queen’
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First posted: Thursday, February 23, 2012 07:19 PM EST
Former Montreal stripper Aida Fagundo testifies Thursday at the trial of at the trial of five ex-Central Field Command drug squad officers. (PAM DAVIES/Toronto Sun)
TORONTO - 
Former Montreal stripper Aida Fagundo was accused of being the No. 2 cocaine dealer in her city, transporting $100 million worth of coke to Toronto, a jury heard Thursday.
Fagundo was testifying at the trial of five ex-Central Field Command drug squad officers, whom she alleged assaulted her, stole her $20,000 diamond stud ear-rings and $10,000 in cash, and intimidated her to admit the five kilograms of cocaine belonged to her.
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“You are accusing me and you are intimidating me, just like the police officers did,” snapped the animated Cuban-born stripper.

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