Raptors fire Pak woman
The Toronto Raptors have made one of the more unusual moves of the season.
They have fired a member of the team's Dance Pak.
Identified as "Lucie'' by the team, the 19-year-old is featured as Lindsey Marshal on an adults-only Internet site that calls her a "Canadian girl.''
"She's obviously very upset with the team's decision,'' Tony Edwards of Avenue Blue, the company that hosts the site, said in a release. "Lucie viewed her Raptors dancing as a great opportunity to advance her career. The Web site was a way to fund her ambitions to become a professional dancer.''
And what better way than posing topless or in the shower?
OK, what better way that requires so little effort?
"She would not be an appropriate member for the Dance Pak because we don't want people coming down here and seeing Lucie and then realizing she has an alias where she's showing quote-unquote pornographic material of herself,'' Raptors events operations director Jim Roe told the Toronto Sun. "It's not the image we want.
"We definitely want the Dance Pak to be appealing and sexy, and that's part of the package. This just takes it too far, and it does not fit with our values.''
The Toronto Raptors have made one of the more unusual moves of the season.
They have fired a member of the team's Dance Pak.
Identified as "Lucie'' by the team, the 19-year-old is featured as Lindsey Marshal on an adults-only Internet site that calls her a "Canadian girl.''
"She's obviously very upset with the team's decision,'' Tony Edwards of Avenue Blue, the company that hosts the site, said in a release. "Lucie viewed her Raptors dancing as a great opportunity to advance her career. The Web site was a way to fund her ambitions to become a professional dancer.''
And what better way than posing topless or in the shower?
OK, what better way that requires so little effort?
"She would not be an appropriate member for the Dance Pak because we don't want people coming down here and seeing Lucie and then realizing she has an alias where she's showing quote-unquote pornographic material of herself,'' Raptors events operations director Jim Roe told the Toronto Sun. "It's not the image we want.
"We definitely want the Dance Pak to be appealing and sexy, and that's part of the package. This just takes it too far, and it does not fit with our values.''

