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December 2008
- Fans Get Prime Seats for Eternal Extra Innings
  
  Boston Globe | Dec 1, 08 12:35 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Die-hard baseball fans can now continue showing their team pride even in the afterlife. A Boston-area funeral home is offering its first-ever Red Sox casket, emblazoned with the team’s logo and accented with baseball-bat-type wood. “It's really a beautiful thing,” the funeral-home director, a Sox fan himself, tells the Globe . More »
October 2008
- 'Basketball on Grass' Has Heads Spinning
  
  New York Times | Oct 17, 08 12:57 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Standard football rules allow the team on offense five eligible receivers downfield. But what if opponents and officials can't tell which five until the center snaps the ball? Hundreds of high schools run the controversial "A-11" offense, which relies on confusion instead of brawn. The New York Times checks out the X's and O's. More »
- On Sports Exchange, 'Trade' Takes on New Meaning
  
  Reuters | Oct 6, 08 3:24 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Trading baseball cards with your friends is so 20th century. A new website allows sports fans to trade shares in athletes and even teams, effectively wagering real money on the performance of pro and college athletes, reports Reuters. "I see the marketplace being enormous," says an early investor in the website, OneSeason.com, which launched this week. More »
August 2008
- Sporting Farmers Plow for Glory in Europe
  
  Wall Street Journal | Aug 29, 08 7:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Earlier this month, a high-stakes amateur athletics competition, complete with come-from-behind upset victories and confusing rules, captivated audiences. It wasn’t the Olympics, but it’s as close as most farmboys will get, the Wall Street Journal reports: The World Plowing Championships, held in Grafenegg, Austria, doled out gold to those able plow a plot of land as neatly and perfectly as possible. More »
July 2008
- The Weirdest Sporting Events
  
  Times (UK) | Jul 29, 08 2:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - If curling strikes you as a strange sport, you've obviously never heard of wife carrying or bottle kicking. The London Times explores the weirdest pastimes from across the globe: Wife-carrying, Maine, USA: Wives hang on for dear life as husbands tote them through an obstacle course, upside-down. Winners receive the wife's weight in beer. More »
- Rugged Riding Game Unlike Snooty Polo
  
  Washington Post | Jul 26, 08 7:14 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Don't mistake polocrosse for its snooty cousin, polo, the Washington Post reports. The increasingly popular riding sport is more like rugged lacrosse, because polocrosse players don't just knock a ball around—they scoop, fire, and catch a ball in a hand-held net. "No one's ever heard of it. Not even a lot of horse people," one player says. "But when they play it they love it." More »
- Baseball's All-Miscreant Team
  
  Radar | Jul 15, 08 4:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - With baseball's All-Stars set to take the field at Yankee Stadium, Radar uses the occasion (and the fact that one is the tabloids' current fixation) to name its All-Morally Inept Team: C: Paul Lo Duca, then with the Mets, got the full New York treatment in 2006, when his affair with a 19-year-old became public. Divorce ensued. 1B: Yankees star Jason Giambi copped to steroid use before a grand jury in 2003, and apologized vaguely in '07. More »
- How Do They Do It? It's Not Pretty
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 3, 08 3:43 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - For every time you watched a scrawny guy chow dozens of hot dogs in 12 minutes and wondered where, exactly, he puts it, scientists may have your answer. As compared with us mere mortals, the Wall Street Journal reports, a professional’s stomach appears as a “giant balloon that looks like it has no limit.” More »
June 2008
- No No Hitter: Angels don't allow any hits and still lose to rival Dodgers
  
  Boston Herald | Jun 29, 08
  
  For only the sixth time in the modern era of baseball, a team allowed no hits but still managed to lose the ballgame. The only run of the night was scored by the fifth inning when Angels starting pitcher Jared Weaver committed an error after misplaying a borderline foul ball allowing the Dodgers' Matt Kemp to score. "It was a tough play, but one I should have made," Weaver said. "It looked like it was going foul until the last second. It had a whole lot of spin on it. You don’t work on a lot of those in spring training."Kemp, who hit a single to get on base, stole second and then advanced to third...

9 Stories

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Fans Get Prime Seats for Eternal Extra Innings

'Basketball on Grass' Has Heads Spinning

On Sports Exchange, 'Trade' Takes on New Meaning

Sporting Farmers Plow for Glory in Europe

The Weirdest Sporting Events

Rugged Riding Game Unlike Snooty Polo

Baseball's All-Miscreant Team

How Do They Do It? It's Not Pretty

No No Hitter: Angels don't allow any hits and still lose to rival Dodgers

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