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The 'Fox Sports North Girls' are no more

The women who were an on-camera presence, but weren't journalists, will no longer appear on the FOX Sports regional networks.

By Howard Sinker

May 2, 2015 at 10:30PM
FLoyd Mayweather Jr., right, lands a punch to Manny Pacquaio in the fourth round of the WBC Welterweight Championship at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 2, 2015. Mayweather won in a unaniomous decision.
FLoyd Mayweather Jr., right, lands a punch to Manny Pacquaio in the fourth round of the WBC Welterweight Championship at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 2, 2015. Mayweather won in a unaniomous decision. (Tns - Tns/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

On Friday, people started noticing that Twitter accounts belonging to the FSNorth Girls and other "girls" through the FOX Sports empire had been shut down.

The Star Tribune's Michael Rand received confirmation that the FSNorth Girls, who did promotional appearances, on-camera work and were only identified by first names, have been eliminated.

@RandBall posted this on Twitter Saturday afternoon:

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Howard Sinker

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Howard Sinker is digital sports editor at startribune.com and curates the website's Sports Upload blog. He is also a senior instructor in Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul.

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