Woman's 10-Cent Bet Pays $21,584 At Track
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jul,14
A woman placed a 10-cent bet at a Michigan horse track and won $21,584, a track official says. The Michigan woman, whose name was not released, made the bet Friday at Sports Creek Raceway in Swartz Creek, about 55 miles northwest of Detroit.
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Careless Berlin burglars take taxi home
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Two Albanian men carrying stolen computers and flat-screen televisions worth $13,000 flagged down a Berlin taxi to transport their loot home, only to be arrested later after the cab driver called the police.
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Tarzan Family Go Ape Over Loincloth
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jul,13
Tarzan's legendary loincloth is at the centre of a tug-of-war between a museum and his dying son.Actor Johnny Weissmuller used the piece of cloth while swinging through the jungle in the ape-man action films of the 1930s and 40s.
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'Elvis' Joins Underwater Music Festival
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jul,10
He wasn't wearing blue suede fins, but an Elvis impersonator was among the snorkelers and divers who swam in the Underwater Music Festival in Florida.
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World Cup final fever heats up Antarctic
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Jul,09
While tomorrow morning's World Cup soccer final between France and Italy will be watched around the globe, there could be an icy atmosphere in the southern-most continent on the Earth.
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'Weld Cup' organisers predict win-win in Tas
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Jul,08
The organisers of Tasmania's inaugural 'Weld Cup' soccer match say they would like to be able to give the state's forestry industry a green card.
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Bionic future may be closer to reality
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,04
Bionic men or 'cyborgs' have long been the subject of science fiction, starring in movies like the Terminator.
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Indian Superman sings, dances way to box office bonanza
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jul,04
Bollywood's first superhero has brought super profits to India's prolific film industry.
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Baseball fanatics can take passionate support to the grave
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jun,28
Die-hard baseball fans in the US will soon have a way to be close to their favourite teams in the afterlife, after a company was given permission to reproduce the names and logos of all 30 league teams on a new line of caskets and urns.
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Minor League Manager Has Major-League Meltdown
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jun,26
Minor league manager Joe Mikulik went on a major league tirade during a Class A South Atlantic League Baseball game.
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Musical balloons inspire midsummer dreams
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,23
Seven hot-air balloons fitted with loudspeakers have drifted through the English sky in a novel musical attempt to inspire the sleeping earthbound masses to dream.
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Potty: Police Ban Pool To Fight Crime
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jun,22
Ugandan police have banned people from playing pool during daytime - on the grounds the sport encourages crime.The game is very popular in the east African nation, where pool tables are often placed beneath canopies outside small bars.
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'Doomsday Vault' To Protect Seeds Against Disaster
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Jun,19
It sounds like something from a science fiction film a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside on a secluded Arctic island ready to serve as a Noah's Ark for seeds in case of a global catastrophe.
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Top FIFA official admits World Cup scalping
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Jun,17
A member of the executive committee of world soccer's administrative body FIFA has admitted selling World Cup tickets at three times their face value.
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Cup fans lose trousers over sponsor row
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Jun,17
Up to 1,000 Netherlands fans had to watch yesterday's World Cup win over Cote d'Ivoire in their underpants because of a sponsorship row, soccer's governing world body FIFA has confirmed.
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Danish police 'distracted' by World Cup match
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,16
Some police officers in Denmark refused to answer an emergency call because they were engrossed in watching a televised World Cup football match, a Danish newspaper has reported.
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3-Year-Old's Birthday Party Theme: 'NewsHour'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,16
When a young St. Paul boy got to pick the theme for his third birthday party, he didn't pick Nemo or the Wiggles or Dora the Explorer. He didn't even pick his favorite sports team.
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Cops: Man Driving With Wife's Severed Head Kills 2
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,16
A man transporting his wife's severed head in a pickup truck crashed into an oncoming car, killing a woman and her 4-year-old daughter, police said. The impact sent the head flying onto the road.
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Owner Performs CPR to Save His Dog
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,16
When Jack the dog ran into trouble last month, he couldn't have had a better man around to help. Physician Dave Karli and his dog were out for a walk near their home in Edwards while a father and son were playing catch with a baseball nearby.
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Angola team lashes out at 'witch doctor' report
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jun,15
Angola's coach has hit out at a Portuguese media report which said the team had brought a witch doctor to the soccer World Cup.
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Cops Bust Grads Recreating 'Animal House'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jun,15
Students in this Milwaukee suburb celebrated graduation by revisiting the raucous revelry of "Animal House" at a restaurant and volleyball sandpit owned by an actor from the 1978 movie.
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Rum incentive offered to Trinidadian footballers
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jun,14
Trinidad and Tobago's 23 footballers and their Dutch coach, Leo Beenhakker, have each been promised a barrel of specially aged rum if they win their World Cup match against England.
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Coach Wanders Into Wrong Dorm Room
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jun,14
A Wisconsin high school assistant coach won't be criminally charged after wandering into the dorm room of some female athletes at a weekend track meet after downing a few beers at a local tavern.
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Mentos-Diet Coke Geyser Video Creating Online Buzz
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jun,14
Word is quickly spreading on the Internet of a new and entertaining scientific phenomenon: add Mentos candies to a bottle of Diet Coke, and the result is a gushing geyser of soda that reportedly shoots some 20 feet into the air.
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Music Video About Marine, Iraqis Sparks Anger
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jun,14
A music video posted to the Internet, telling a tale about a U.S. Marine killing members of an Iraqi family, is being condemned by an Islamic group and investigated by the Marine Corps.
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Pornfest Lands In Miami Beach
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Jun,10
Adult entertainment conventions are usually associated with cities such as Las Vegas, but this weekend Miami joins the raunchy club as the largest adult entertainment convention in the Eastern United States takes place in Miami Beach.
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Soccer-mad Brazilians 'tax' drivers
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,09
Residents of soccer crazy Rio de Janeiro are "taxing" motorists to raise funds to decorate their streets in the green and yellow of the Brazilian flag for the World Cup.
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Survey: iPods More Popular Than Beer
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Jun,08
Move over Bud. College life isn't just about drinking beer. In a rare instance, Apple Computer Inc.'s iconic iPod music player surpassed beer drinking as the most "in" thing among undergraduate college students, according to the latest biannual market research study by Ridgewood, N.J.-based Student Monitor.
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Mum Gives Birth To A Little Devil
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jun,07
A baby born on the 6/6/06 - and weighing 6lb 6oz - has been named Damien after horror film The Omen.Proud mum Suzanne Cooper said she was hoping to give birth on June 6 so she could name her son after the infamous young Antichrist in the cult 1976 film.
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England Fans Praying For Cup Miracle
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jun,07
Football fans are appealing to God to help England win the World Cup.Supporters are logging on to the Church of England's website to try to secure some divine intervention.
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Statistics give Socceroos 0.6pc chance
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Jun,07
Australia has roughly the same chance of winning the World Cup as a person has of tossing three sixes with three dice, says a sports statistician.
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Man May Reclaim Bowling Endurance Title
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Jun,06
Dave Wilson spent a lot of time in the fast lane bowling for more than four days straight in an attempt to reclaim his world record for the sport's endurance title.
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Baseball Team Creates World's Unhealthiest Burger
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Jun,04
It could be the world's unhealthiest snack. The ultimate in fast-food indulgence is cooked up, not by a restaurant chain, but by a minor-league baseball club, reports CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers.
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St. Louis Park Offering Krispy Kreme Burgers
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Jun,03
Despite their charming ballpark just outside St. Louis, the Gateway Grizzlies will likely never be renowned for their brand of baseball.
But they're already famous at the concession stand. Or should that be infamous.
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Silicon Valley Fight Club Rages On
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Jun,02
They may sport love handles and Ivy League degrees, but every two weeks, some Silicon Valley techies turn into vicious street brawlers in a real-life, underground fight club.
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'F-word' banned in World Cup-free hotel
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,31
A British hotel is offering football-free breaks for "soccer widows" desperate to escape wall-to-wall coverage of the World Cup.
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Bangladesh students say no to exams during Cup
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday May,28
Hundreds of students at a Bangladesh university have besieged the office of their vice-chancellor demanding exams be postponed during the soccer World Cup.
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Marie Antoinette's Mops is top dog in Cannes
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday May,26
The coveted prize for movies at Cannes may be the Palme d'Or, but for those films' canine casts the Palm Dog is the only award worth winning.
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Men Reel In 1,280-Pound Hammerhead Shark
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,25
A Florida fisherman didn't let the big one get away and it could land him in the sport fishing record books.
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Bruce Willis Soaked During Interview
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday May,23
Bruce Willis got a soaking while promoting the animated film Over the Hedge.
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Dallas Cops Break Up eBay Stolen Bicycle Ring
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday May,23
A Dallas man is headed to prison after stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of sporting goods and selling them on eBay. Prosecutors say the man and a Dallas woman stole bikes and other goods across the country. Police finally caught up with them after pursuing them on eBay.
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'World Cup Can Seriously Damage You'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,22
Health experts are warning that some games in the World Cup finals could be quite literally heart-stopping.Cardiac arrests, wife-beating, binge boozing, smoking, even suicide - all of these phenomena surge during the world's most-watched sporting contest.
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Girl, 10, Goes For Drive, Hits Other Cars
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday May,20
A 10-year-old girl crashed into several cars after she grabbed the car keys and drove off in her guardian's sport utility vehicle with a toddler and a 5-year-old as passengers, officials said. No one was seriously hurt.
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Harry Potter's stolen car flies home
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,18
Harry Potter's stolen flying car has been found after mysteriously disappearing from a film set, British newspapers report.
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Items From Star Trek Shows, Movies Head To Auction
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,18
Christie's, the final frontier. These are the memorabilia of the "Star Trek" television shows and movies. Their mission -- to fetch the highest prices they can at auction.
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'Prime Time' Anchors CBS 42 Sports At 10
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday May,18
Football star and part Austin Wranglers owner Deion Sanders co-anchored sports on CBS 42 10 p.m.
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Civic Pride: Mel's Dad Is New Mayor
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday May,17
The father of England footballer Theo Walcott's girlfriend became the butt of a few jokes when he was invested as a mayor.John Slade, the father of 17-year-old Melanie, became the 784th mayor of Southampton in a ceremony at the city's Guild Hall.
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Ga. Governor, Teens Party After Prom
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,15
Georgia's governor, Sonny Perdue, has earned some cool with the kids: He hosted five busloads of high school students over at his place for an after-prom party featuring more dancing, food from sponsors, and a wall of videogames.
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BBC: Internet 'Expert' Just A Cabbie
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday May,15
The BBC has admitted it was taken for a ride by a cabbie. The network has apologized to its viewers for a studio mix-up that resulted in a cab driver appearing on live television as an expert on Internet music downloads.
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Groomer Launches Doggie Web Radio
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday May,12
A Thai entrepreneur has launched an Internet radio station to put dogs in a better mood. During classes, he turns on music for the dogs because "the music puts the dogs in a good mood and they're more willing to let the groomers handle them," he said.
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