<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : sports : Popular Links : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://sports.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Would You Be Comfortable Locked On A Train With A Murderer?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/135947/1/" /><id>135947</id><summary><![CDATA[Would You Be Comfortable Locked On A Train With A Murderer?]]></summary><issued>2009-11-23T22:49:42+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-23T22:49:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Is there anything more horrifying than being locked on the subway with a knife-toting murder? About two dozen commuters found themselves in that hellish situation early on Saturday, when they were locked on in the first car of an uptown D train with suspect Gerardo Sanchez, who according to witnesses had just stabbed a passenger to death in an argument over a seat.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[NFL shipwrecks Captain Morgan campaign]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/135685/1/" /><id>135685</id><summary><![CDATA[NFL shipwrecks Captain Morgan campaign]]></summary><issued>2009-11-13T12:28:56+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-13T12:28:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Captain Morgan may have pulled off the quietest and shortest-lived advertising ambush in sports history last Sunday. One that was almost universally unknown, barely noticed, and yet, promptly squashed by the NFL this week.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Pure Lady' Massage Chair is Pure Weird]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/135469/1/" /><id>135469</id><summary><![CDATA['Pure Lady' Massage Chair is Pure Weird]]></summary><issued>2009-11-07T11:18:44+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-07T11:18:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This Japanese massage chair is designed with ladies in mind. Stay away, dudes! It's full of air, foldable, and styled with red leather. It's got four types of massages it can deliver: &quot;foot and calf massage with the foot air bag equipped with the back acupressure stimulation Gui Innovation calf, Pelvis and thigh massage with a rocking mechanism from side to side around comfortably seat air bags and waist and back massage such as Shiatsu massage.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Fresh From World Series Win, Girardi Helps Crash Victim]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/135408/1/" /><id>135408</id><summary><![CDATA[Fresh From World Series Win, Girardi Helps Crash Victim]]></summary><issued>2009-11-05T17:00:33+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-05T17:00:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What can't Yankees manager Joe Girardi do? First, there's manage the Yankees to their 27th World Series win. But after the win, when driving home on the Cross County Parkway, he stopped to help a driver who crashed into a wall!<br/><br/>*This is right near where I live. It's a really dangerous stretch of parkway*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Running Shoes are a waste of money]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/135338/1/" /><id>135338</id><summary><![CDATA[Running Shoes are a waste of money]]></summary><issued>2009-11-03T15:27:32+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-03T15:27:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This is an old article (and a similar one to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/132156/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bingo's post</a>), but I've recently discovered barefoot running and am very interested.  <br/><br/>I'm fascinated by this statement:  &quot;For the fun of it. One of [Tarahumara Indians] recently came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing nothing but a toga and sandals. He was 57 years old.&quot;    <br/><br/>FOR THE FUN OF IT?????]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ 10-foot Shark Nearly Bitten in Half by 20-foot Shark]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/135152/1/" /><id>135152</id><summary><![CDATA[ 10-foot Shark Nearly Bitten in Half by 20-foot Shark]]></summary><issued>2009-10-27T13:41:57+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-27T13:41:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 10-foot Great White Shark had been hooked already by a baited drum line off the coast of Queensland, Australia when it was attacked and bitten by a much bigger fish. Based on the bite marks, the attacker is presumed to be a 20-foot long Great White shark.<br/><br/><i>What a picture!</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Football coach orders players to kiss each other on the lips ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/134776/1/" /><id>134776</id><summary><![CDATA[Football coach orders players to kiss each other on the lips ]]></summary><issued>2009-10-16T17:54:45+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-16T17:54:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The coach of the national football team has ordered players to kiss each other on the lips in order to create a special bond between team mates]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Chicago Cubs file Chapter 11]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/134525/1/" /><id>134525</id><summary><![CDATA[Chicago Cubs file Chapter 11]]></summary><issued>2009-10-12T15:28:55+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-12T15:28:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[2nd pro team this year (NHL's Phoenix Coyotes were first).   Who's next?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rio to host 2016 Olympics]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/134015/1/" /><id>134015</id><summary><![CDATA[Rio to host 2016 Olympics]]></summary><issued>2009-10-02T13:08:18+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-02T13:08:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[High school cheerleaders banned from using Bible banners  ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/133992/1/" /><id>133992</id><summary><![CDATA[High school cheerleaders banned from using Bible banners  ]]></summary><issued>2009-10-01T19:02:34+01:00</issued><modified>2009-10-01T19:02:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A high school cheerleading squad is getting flak after parading religious banners at football games.<br/><br/>The Lakeview-Fort Oglethrope High School cheerleaders, of Georgia, have tried everything to get their team to win, including displaying football banners with such <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/sep/29/cheerleaders-religious-signs-draw-fire/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> biblical verse</a> as &#8220;commit to the lord&#8221; and &#8220;take charge of it,]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Greenbay Packers Can Run Red Lights]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/133473/1/" /><id>133473</id><summary><![CDATA[Greenbay Packers Can Run Red Lights]]></summary><issued>2009-09-22T11:08:33+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-22T11:08:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[and get police escorts on the way to their home games if a pending bill passes.<br/><br/>Why don't they just leave earlier?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[After 1,100 miles and 52 days, Eddie Izzard has finishing line in sight]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/133021/1/" /><id>133021</id><summary><![CDATA[After 1,100 miles and 52 days, Eddie Izzard has finishing line in sight]]></summary><issued>2009-09-15T12:07:11+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-15T12:07:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As a transvestite comic who is prone to put on weight and had never run farther than five miles, Eddie Izzard is not the obvious candidate to run 1,100 miles around Britain. But the 47-year-old stand-up and actor will today drag his aching limbs from the Olympic park to Trafalgar Square in the last of an astonishing 43 marathons he has completed in just 52 days...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[LSD and The Strangest Player in Major League History]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/132910/1/" /><id>132910</id><summary><![CDATA[LSD and The Strangest Player in Major League History]]></summary><issued>2009-09-13T10:05:29+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-13T10:05:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Ellis" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dock Ellis</a> was baseball's first true king of performance enhancing <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/ellis.asp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">drugs</a>. Dock Ellis is probably the only player that intentionally tried to injure his opponents during an All-Star game. He's one of the few (the only?) to be pepper sprayed by stadium security upon arrival. How many other major leaguers spent their off-season cruising through the ghettos of Haiti in order to find zombies?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Runner is a 'hermaphrodite']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/132756/1/" /><id>132756</id><summary><![CDATA[Runner is a 'hermaphrodite']]></summary><issued>2009-09-10T14:20:41+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-10T14:20:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The controversy over gender row champion runner Caster Semenya deepened today &#8212; after reports claimed sex swap tests have shown she is a hermaphrodite. <br/><br/>*update to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/131144/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Redskins sue 72 year old lifelong fan for breaking her season ticket contract due to financial hardship.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/132279/1/" /><id>132279</id><summary><![CDATA[Redskins sue 72 year old lifelong fan for breaking her season ticket contract due to financial hardship.]]></summary><issued>2009-09-03T11:40:58+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-03T11:40:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It would be hard to find a more loyal fan of the Washington Redskins than real estate agent Pat Hill. She's had season tickets since the early 1960s, when her daughter danced in the halftime shows at the old D.C. Stadium, before it was renamed in memory of Robert F. Kennedy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Judo champ finally gets her gold]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/131504/1/" /><id>131504</id><summary><![CDATA[Judo champ finally gets her gold]]></summary><issued>2009-08-24T11:13:45+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-24T11:13:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Brooklyn judo champ stripped of her first place medal when judges realized she was a woman competing in a contest against men secured her place in the history books Friday. *After waiting 50 years!*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Beep Beep Beep Beep RUN!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/131162/1/" /><id>131162</id><summary><![CDATA[Beep Beep Beep Beep RUN!]]></summary><issued>2009-08-19T17:40:16+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-19T17:40:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For the bases that is. Blind individuals  play <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.nbba.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">beep ball</a>, a form of baseball specially modified for the blind. A special baseball that beeps (and weighs an entire pound!) is used, and payers run toward padded columnar &quot;bases&quot; that beep. Due to varying levels of sightedness, players wear blindfolds on the field to keep things equal. An update on the sport from an <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/24998/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">earlier post</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[IAAF isn't sure South African runner is female]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/131144/1/" /><id>131144</id><summary><![CDATA[IAAF isn't sure South African runner is female]]></summary><issued>2009-08-19T14:39:35+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-19T14:39:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[South Africa&#8217;s track and field federation had been asked to conduct a gender test on an 800-meter runner amid concerns she does not meet the requirements to compete as a woman.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Brett Favre is a Viking!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/131039/1/" /><id>131039</id><summary><![CDATA[Brett Favre is a Viking!]]></summary><issued>2009-08-18T15:27:12+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-18T15:27:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Who didn't see it coming?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Kids Who Can't Survive Sunshine Play Ball With the Yankees]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/130972/1/" /><id>130972</id><summary><![CDATA[Kids Who Can't Survive Sunshine Play Ball With the Yankees]]></summary><issued>2009-08-17T23:18:33+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-17T23:18:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So how could they take the field at Yankee Stadium? Because this was 3 a.m.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Women boxers to fight at 2012 Games]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/130631/1/" /><id>130631</id><summary><![CDATA[Women boxers to fight at 2012 Games]]></summary><issued>2009-08-13T12:17:26+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-13T12:17:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Women boxers will compete at the London 2012 Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has ruled.<br/><br/>They will compete at three weight divisions after the IOC's executive board ruled that boxing would no longer be a male-only event.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[9 Weirdest Sports In The World]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/130422/1/" /><id>130422</id><summary><![CDATA[9 Weirdest Sports In The World]]></summary><issued>2009-08-11T01:21:09+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-11T01:21:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Imagine Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier slugging it out for a round in one of history&#8217;s greatest boxing matches and then when the bell rings sitting down for a game of chess. Preposterous? Ok, maybe. But we would have loved to see it and you wouldn&#8217;t have to make up the rules as you go because Chess Boxing is a real sport.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Barry's World]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/129934/1/" /><id>129934</id><summary><![CDATA[ Barry's World]]></summary><issued>2009-08-04T23:36:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-04T23:36:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Here are some slightly modified versions of some of my Nature Photographs. If you've ever wondered what it would be like if Godzilla trampled the countryside of rural Idaho, set fire to downtown Boston, ran amok in the great cities of Europe, or just showed up near that little pond behind the Junior High School ...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The man who invented camping]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/129716/1/" /><id>129716</id><summary><![CDATA[The man who invented camping]]></summary><issued>2009-08-02T13:35:42+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-02T13:35:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Throughout most of history, the rough terrain has been given over almost entirely to wildlife. But in the summer of 1869, the woods were overrun. For the first time, middle-class urbanites decided that a few weeks spent in the clutches of Nature might be survivable. In fact, they had been convinced it would be fun.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Over the Falls in a Kayak]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/129297/1/" /><id>129297</id><summary><![CDATA[Over the Falls in a Kayak]]></summary><issued>2009-07-29T03:03:03+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-29T03:03:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[22-year-old Tyler Bradt plunged over Palouse Falls in eastern Washington and set a world record for a kayak descent. The fall was 186 feet, which he covered in less than four seconds.<br/><br/>    After disappearing under the water he emerged within six seconds with his broken paddle and sprained wrist.]]></content></entry></items></xml>