I was all over Boston.com this morning and wondered for a moment if I had ventured onto a British tabloid site.

First, there was a 9-shot photo gallery of tryouts for the Celtics Dancers, the basketball teams cheerleaders clad in tight hotpants

and top.  Then there was another shot of a bikini clad female which I can’t locate at the moment. The link to the photo gallery

was from the sports section, not surprisingly. I wonder how many page views it got.

This is pretty out of character for the Globe, but desperate times require desperate measures, right? The Globe photos by British

tabloid standards are tame for sure.