Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player — too good, it turns out.
The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last [...]

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David Hayes’ granddaughter just ask him to hold her Barbie rod and reel while she went to the bathroom. He did. And seconds later he landed the state record channel catfish at 21 pounds, 1 ounce.
Alyssa’s father had bought the pink Barbie fishing rod for Christmas and she had caught a few bluegill before her [...]

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Liu Xianghui cycled over 1,300 km (800 miles) to Beijing towing his 98-year-old grandmother in a pedicab to fulfil her dream of attending the Olympics.
Reports of Chinese sports fans going to extremes to support the Olympics have been popping up in Chinese newspapers and websites since the start of the Games on August 8, making [...]

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Spain’s synchronised swimmers have been banned from wearing a swimsuit with embedded waterproof lights which they had hoped would give an extra sparkle to their Olympic routine.
“It got very sophisticated because obviously the battery doesn’t last long and then we had to look at circuits and interrupters, so we have been working on it around [...]

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While the beach volleyballers tough it out in the sand, Tom Blaumauer and Chris McGee have faced an Olympic challenge of their own: how to encourage the Chinese to throw a Californian beach party.
Rock music, go-go-girls and rowdy singing in the stands have become as integral a part of beach volleyball [...]

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One day, a man came home and was greeted by his wife dressed in a very Sexy nightie. ‘Tie me up,’ she purred, ‘and you can do anything you want.’ So he tied her up and went golfing.
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An American astronaut became the first person to run the Boston Marathon in space on Monday, completing the 26.2 miles (42.16 km) on a treadmill in the orbiting International Space Station.
Suni Williams, who was an official entrant in the race, took four hours 23 minutes 46 seconds, said John Yembrick, a spokesman for the National [...]

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An angry soccer mom who left her teenage daughter alongside an interstate was ticketed for neglect, Lincoln police said Tuesday. Police spokeswoman Katherine Finnell confirmed this account from police reports:
The 42-year-old Lincoln mom was miffed about her daughter’s poor play on Saturday.
On their drive home the girl flubbed the lines her mom had drilled into [...]

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Police in Macedonia said on Friday they were unsure whether the country’s interior minister was driving David Beckham’s stolen BMW.
“We cannot confirm that this is Beckham’s jeep,” a police spokesman said, after local media reported that minister Gordana Jankulovska’s new official car was Beckham’s missing 4×4.
In 2005, Macedonian police impounded a BMW X5 on the [...]

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Peru coach Julio Cesar Uribe has been fined 30 percent of one month’s wages after a controversial outing to a disco following last month’s friendly in Japan.
“We were not bothered about Uribe going to a disco after the Japan game, what annoyed us was that he denied it,” said Peruvian Football Federation director Juvenal Silva.
“For [...]

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