Column: Do skirts make an Olympic boxer?  Updated: November 20,
2011, 6:48 PM ET Associated Press  The people running Olympic
boxing claim they're not crooks, despite allegations made in a
BBC television program that $9 million was paid by Azerbaijan to
make sure the former Soviet republic wins two gold medals at the
Olympics next year in London.  Charge them with being sexist,
though, and they have no choice but to plead guilty.  There's
really no other way to explain proposals by the International
Amateur Boxing Association to make sure women competing in
Olympic boxing for the first time in London get their fair share
of attention.  They want them to wear skirts.  Better yet, they
would like them to be miniskirts.  The official line is that
skirts will make it easier for the casual Olympic boxing fan to
tell female boxers apart from the men. Imagine the confusion,
after all, if someone on their living room couch believes they
are watching Daniel fight for a gold medal when who they're
really seeing is Dani