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Would You Be Comfortable Locked On A Train With A Murderer? Posted: 13 hours ago by suebe
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.
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NFL shipwrecks Captain Morgan campaign Posted: 2 weeks ago by bisquick3
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.
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'Pure Lady' Massage Chair is Pure Weird Posted: 2 weeks ago by suebe
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: "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."
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Fresh From World Series Win, Girardi Helps Crash Victim Posted: 3 weeks ago by suebe
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!
*This is right near where I live. It's a really dangerous stretch of parkway*
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Running Shoes are a waste of money Posted: 3 weeks ago by icepigs
This is an old article (and a similar one to Bingo's post), but I've recently discovered barefoot running and am very interested.
I'm fascinated by this statement: "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."
FOR THE FUN OF IT?????
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10-foot Shark Nearly Bitten in Half by 20-foot Shark Posted: 4 weeks ago by bingo
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.
What a picture!
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Football coach orders players to kiss each other on the lips Posted: 1 month ago by ruthstark
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
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Chicago Cubs file Chapter 11 Posted: 1 month ago by icepigs
2nd pro team this year (NHL's Phoenix Coyotes were first). Who's next?
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Rio to host 2016 Olympics Posted: 2 months ago by sunshine1084
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High school cheerleaders banned from using Bible banners Posted: 2 months ago by suebe
A high school cheerleading squad is getting flak after parading religious banners at football games.
The Lakeview-Fort Oglethrope High School cheerleaders, of Georgia, have tried everything to get their team to win, including displaying football banners with such biblical verse as “commit to the lord” and “take charge of it,
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Greenbay Packers Can Run Red Lights Posted: 2 months ago by suebe
and get police escorts on the way to their home games if a pending bill passes.
Why don't they just leave earlier?
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After 1,100 miles and 52 days, Eddie Izzard has finishing line in sight Posted: 2 months ago by doodlechild
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...
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LSD and The Strangest Player in Major League History Posted: 2 months ago by 2manyusernames
Dock Ellis was baseball's first true king of performance enhancing drugs. 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?
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Runner is a 'hermaphrodite' Posted: 2 months ago by nateebiinature
The controversy over gender row champion runner Caster Semenya deepened today — after reports claimed sex swap tests have shown she is a hermaphrodite.
*update to this
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Redskins sue 72 year old lifelong fan for breaking her season ticket contract due to financial hardship. Posted: 3 months ago by nateebiinature
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.
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Judo champ finally gets her gold Posted: 3 months ago by tvirus
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!*
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Beep Beep Beep Beep RUN! Posted: 3 months ago by suebe
For the bases that is. Blind individuals play beep ball, 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 "bases" 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 earlier post
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IAAF isn't sure South African runner is female Posted: 3 months ago by nateebiinature
South Africa’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.
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Brett Favre is a Viking! Posted: 3 months ago by JoshSF49
Who didn't see it coming?
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Kids Who Can't Survive Sunshine Play Ball With the Yankees Posted: 3 months ago by cb__
So how could they take the field at Yankee Stadium? Because this was 3 a.m.
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Women boxers to fight at 2012 Games Posted: 3 months ago by DAVEthefish
Women boxers will compete at the London 2012 Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has ruled.
They will compete at three weight divisions after the IOC's executive board ruled that boxing would no longer be a male-only event.
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9 Weirdest Sports In The World Posted: 4 months ago by iamamaniac
Imagine Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier slugging it out for a round in one of history’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’t have to make up the rules as you go because Chess Boxing is a real sport.
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Barry's World Posted: 4 months ago by Bornbad
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 ...
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The man who invented camping Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
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.
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Over the Falls in a Kayak Posted: 4 months ago by Bingo
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.
After disappearing under the water he emerged within six seconds with his broken paddle and sprained wrist.
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