And they're back! : Two activists from women's rights organisation Femen in Ukraine staged a protest in front of the Arena Lviv stadium before its opening ceremony in Lviv over the weekend. As you may recall, they started a campaign to protest against sex tourism, prostitution, and alcohol sales at sports stadiums at next year's Euro 2012 (read this post).

Well, this is a truly shocking photograph but believe it or not, the woman here isn't a deranged football fan! She's a member of FEMEN, a Ukrainian Women Movements group (we'd call it a 'feminist' group but that term is tragically overused these days), who participated in a protest at Ukraine's newly reconstructed Olympiyskiy Stadium last week.

Watching the France-Canada game of the Women's World Cup yesterday, I was exhilarated by the playing of the French side. Their dominance in the game was a surprise to many, and to me, and also a little ghostly: suddenly, I was watching the sort of flowing, graceful, entertaining French football which for the past years had existed mainly in my imagination.

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Mexico soccer players in prostitution scandal ahead of Copa America is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Eight of Mexico's soccer players have been sent home from the 2011 Copa America after they were caught on television cameras bringing prostitutes into their hotel room in Quito, Ecuador.

In the months leading up to and during the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa, the French National Team found itself and its players involved in numerous scandals. One of the most infamous of those scandals involved allegations that Franck Ribery, Karim Benzema, and Sidney Govou had sex with an underage prostitute.

In the quaint Luxembourg stadium on Friday, in front of a hopeful banner that read "Lux 4, Fra 0," the pitch welcomed Patrice Evra and Franck Ribéry back from their period of post-World Cup exile. The game itself was, to put it politely, not the most thrilling of match-ups France is lucky to be in European Cup qualifying group with some of Europe's cutest nations, Luxembourg and the Faroe Islands but the mild victory by France further solidified it's march towards the 2012 European Cup, and more importantly registered as the end of one thing and, hopefully, the beginning of another.

When Lawrence Taylor was arrested on May 6th and charged with third-degree rape, endangering the welfare of a child and patronizing a prostitute, it appeared as if he was headed to the slammer. On Thursday, Lawrence Taylor reached a plea bargain that allows his to avoid jail time. In the plea bargain, Taylor had to plead guilty to sexual misconduct and soliciting a prostitute.

[Two men sit in a television studio, jaws slack as highlights play out on the screen behind their desk. One is drooling while that song from every damn movie trailer ever made plus the movie that everybody knows for the joke about "ass to ass" but nobody's actually seen plays in the background.