<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : sports : All Links : XML WIDGET</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><link><id>139259</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/139259/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Canada outlasts U.S. for hockey gold ]]></title><description><![CDATA[what an incredible game!]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>254</score><crdate>2/28/2010 6:56:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-02-28T18:56:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>139256</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/139256/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Admiral Ackbar for U. Miss Mascot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine the &quot;It's a Trap&quot; chants. They can't repel a mascot of this magnitude!]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>382</score><crdate>2/28/2010 6:01:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-02-28T18:01:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>139204</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/139204/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Former NBA All-Star Alvin Robertson has been charged with sexual assault.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former NBA All-Star Alvin Robertson has been charged with sexual assault of a child, trafficking an underage child for purposes of sex and forcing a sexual performance by a child]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>86</score><crdate>2/27/2010 1:01:15 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-02-27T01:01:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>138847</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/138847/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New world record for holding breath underwater: 19:21 mins.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter Colat held his breath for 19 minutes and 21 seconds, underwater in St. Gallen, Switzerland.<br/><br/>The picture? Well, I like cats...and he is holding his breath.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>141</score><crdate>2/16/2010 3:38:26 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-02-16T03:38:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>138744</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/138744/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Olympic Luger dies in a practice run.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A men's Olympic luger from the former Soviet republic of Georgia crashed training for the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Friday and has died from the injuries.]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>687</score><crdate>2/12/2010 3:42:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-02-12T15:42:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>138605</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/138605/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Conversation with a King]]></title><description><![CDATA[Interview with Omri Casspi about the sport of basketball and being the first ever Israeli NBA player.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>11</score><crdate>2/8/2010 1:07:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-02-08T13:07:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>138233</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/138233/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Paul Shirley loses job at ESPN]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Shirley won't be contributing to ESPN anymore after writing a nasty little letter to Haiti blaming them for the disaster and telling them to use a condom.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>215</score><crdate>1/27/2010 2:27:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-27T14:27:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>138178</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/138178/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Girls coach sinks impossible shot]]></title><description><![CDATA[The school tells the coach if he makes a half court shot while blindfolded, they would give him NCAA tickets.<br/><br/>Guess who didn't actually have any tickets and is now looking to get some on the cheap?<br/><br/>Video of the event is at the link.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>768</score><crdate>1/26/2010 11:23:54 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-26T11:23:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>138154</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/138154/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Tebow's Pro-Life Ad Set for Super Bowl]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to a Focus on the Family spokesman: &quot;There's nothing political and controversial about it.  When the day arrives, and you sit down to watch the game on TV, those who oppose it will be quite surprised at what the ad is all about.&quot;<br/><br/>In the meantime, the controversy continues.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>68</score><crdate>1/25/2010 8:52:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-25T20:52:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>138114</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/138114/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Kelly Kulick makes history, becomes first woman to win a PBA Tour title]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kulick became the first woman to win a PBA Tour title when she defeated Chris Barnes of Double Oak, Texas, to win the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>105</score><crdate>1/24/2010 10:35:16 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-24T22:35:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>138079</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/138079/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blind skier included in strong Canadian team]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brian McKeever became the first athlete to gain selection for a Winter Olympics and a Paralympics in the same year when he was included in a strong Canadian cross country team for next month's Vancouver Games. McKeever suffers from Stargardt's disease and is legally blind.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>7</score><crdate>1/23/2010 9:37:45 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-23T21:37:45+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>138062</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/138062/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Lakers not living up to high offensive standards]]></title><description><![CDATA[At 33-10, the Los Angeles Lakers have the best record in the NBA. Their defense is one of the best in the league. Their offense on the other hand is very poor especially looking at the level of talent they have.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>32</score><crdate>1/23/2010 4:14:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-23T16:14:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>138061</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/138061/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Minor leaguer forgoes MLB for the Catholic priesthood.]]></title><description><![CDATA[This isn't a case of a struggling player going through an early-life crisis. Desme was ranked the A's eighth-best prospect by Baseball America after hitting .288 with 31 home runs and 89 RBIs in A ball in 2009 and he was just named MVP of the Arizona Fall League.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>106</score><crdate>1/23/2010 3:29:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-23T15:29:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>137988</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/137988/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Caster Semenya and the apartheid of sex]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xeni asked me to give a brief analysis of  her earlier post on the International Olympic Committee's decision regarding sex tests for athletes like South African sprinter  Caster Semenya. Caster is one of the millions of people in the world who challenge our simplistic male/female sex binary by their very existence.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>144</score><crdate>1/21/2010 10:37:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-21T22:37:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>137821</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/137821/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bears defensive end Gaines Adams dead at 26]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adams, a former Clemson University football star, died Sunday morning after he was taken to the emergency room. He was so young.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>440</score><crdate>1/17/2010 12:19:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-17T12:19:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>137799</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/137799/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Football Games Have 11 Minutes of Action]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to a Wall Street Journal study as well as estimates by researchers, the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes. The rest of the time is spent in commercials, instant replays, shots of players standing around, etc.]]></description><comments>23</comments><score>554</score><crdate>1/16/2010 12:07:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-16T12:07:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>137712</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/137712/1/</url><title><![CDATA[2012 Olympic Park is Safe From  40mph Sewage Attack.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A safer, gentler Olympics with out s**t flying everywhere.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>168</score><crdate>1/14/2010 11:10:23 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-14T11:10:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>137555</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/137555/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The 6th National Peasants' Games]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two months after China's elite athletes dazzled the world at the Beijing Olympics, its 750 million peasant farmers are taking their turn in the sporting spotlight this week at the 6th National Peasant Games.<br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/photos/photos_galleries/chinapeasantgames/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">more</a> and <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://china.blogs.time.com/2008/10/29/chinas-sixth-peasant-olympics-pictures-worth-a-whole-mess-of-words-dept/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">more</a> and a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VJvAJEI7Qw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">video</a>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>38</score><crdate>1/11/2010 12:15:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-11T12:15:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>137548</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/137548/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hats off: NFL apparel fight could have big impact]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court battle over who gets to make official NFL headgear could end up having a very large effect not only on all professional sports, but also the landscape of business in the United States.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>216</score><crdate>1/11/2010 8:18:37 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-11T08:18:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>137516</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/137516/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Seahawks fans, self-lacerating USC fans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every week, I'll excerpt a handful of stories &#8212; old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime &#8212; that I urge you to read for one reason or another. Send any suggestions to craggs@deadspin.com.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>124</score><crdate>1/10/2010 2:49:06 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-10T02:49:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>137448</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/137448/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Real World Series a Possibility]]></title><description><![CDATA[US has realized that the world extends beyond US baseball teams]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>64</score><crdate>1/7/2010 5:15:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2010-01-07T17:15:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>137165</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/137165/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Caldwell's Questionable Decision Leads to Colts' First Loss of the Season]]></title><description><![CDATA[The benefit of resting Peyton for four series isn't enough to outweigh the historic implications of going 16-0.<br/><br/>Unbelievable.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>121</score><crdate>12/28/2009 1:04:48 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-12-28T01:04:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>136937</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/136937/1/</url><title><![CDATA[&quot;Don't let your kids play football,&quot; he says. &quot;Never.&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[The words are not subtle. They spit from Dave Pear's mouth, with a blistering contempt normally reserved for drunk drivers.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>349</score><crdate>12/20/2009 6:47:43 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-12-20T18:47:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>136515</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/136515/1/</url><title><![CDATA[How To Park Your Car, In 16 Mathematical Steps]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don't doubt your parking ability anymore. Scientists have developed a mathematical equation that tells us how small a parking space can be to allow ingress of any given car.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>258</score><crdate>12/11/2009 8:12:54 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-12-11T08:12:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>136405</id><url>http://sports.plime.com/sports/l/136405/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Does Football Cost Too Much?]]></title><description><![CDATA[.....While the average cost of attending an NFL game for a family of four is $412.64, it's a staggering $758.58 to watch the Cowboys. (That figure includes tickets and drinks for four people, as well as a couple of caps.)]]></description><comments>23</comments><score>452</score><crdate>12/8/2009 2:09:49 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-12-08T14:09:49+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>