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Fri Mar 1, 2013, 12:34 PM Mar 2013

NFL To Investigate Improper Questions About Sexual Orientation

Questions by team representatives regarding sexual orientation to collegiate players hoping for a multi-million-dollar National Football League career have prompted an investigation by the league.

An NFL statement on its website said the league would look into reports that prospects were asked improper questions at the NFL Scouting Combine, four days of physical tests and interviews that ended Tuesday in Indianapolis.

University of Colorado tight end Nick Kasa first raised the issue in a radio interview with ESPN on Tuesday.

“(Teams) ask you like, ‘Do you have a girlfriend?’ ‘Are you married?’ ‘Do you like girls?’, those kinds of things,” Kasa said. “It was just kind of weird, but they would ask you with a straight face.”

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