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...Diego State—which nearly toppled No. 4 Stanford last week—flourished, outshooting Harvard, 6-0, in the period. “We’re not game-fit yet,” Leone admitted. The Aztecs had multiple opportunities for the golden goal as time wound down, but once again, it was the post that played foil. San Diego State captain Cat Walker followed a blocked shot with a strong attempt from just inside the box, which ricocheted off the left post with five and a half minutes to play. “I do think...
...first to admit his company could easily have wound up on FAIL Blog. For the uninitiated, that's his wildly popular website to which users submit photos and videos documenting such colossally stupid moves as writing a billboard partly in Braille and using a trash can as a bike helmet. Like the rest of the 20-odd websites Huh owns, FAIL Blog was added to his empire for no more specific reason, he says, than "Dude, I think it's funny." (See the 25 best blogs...
...During the June Michael Jackson auction, a signed Jackson 5 album was expected to bring in $400 to $600, but wound up getting more than $27,000. "I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that was an emotional purchase," says Woolley...
...were banned from the sport for up to three years for staging a blood-gushing injury to help the team gain an illicit advantage over rival Leinster in the dying moments of a European Cup tournament quarter-final match in April. The goal: have a player simulate an open wound in order to exploit an exemption to substitution rules that allows players who've already left the game to return in place of those too bloodied to continue. In the Harlequins' case, that meant getting winger Tom Williams to secretly bite into a synthetic blood capsule, then sending...
...Were discovery of that ruse not bad enough, investigations subsequently revealed that former England rubgy great and Harlequins coach Dean Richards - who has since resigned - had used the fake wound ploy on at least four previous occasions. But perhaps worst of all, the British media reports that as suspicion surged around the conveniently timed injury even before the match against Leinster had ended, Harlequins medical staffers rushed to slice a real gash inside Williams' mouth with a scalpel to cover their cheating...