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Iowa High-School Wrestler Won’t Compete Against Girl
High-school sophomore Joel Northrup was widely considered a favorite in his weight class until he forfeited his wrestling state tournament in the first round.
Northrup forfeited because he was paired up with Cassy Herkelman, one of the first girls to qualify for the tournament
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Canadian 8th Grader Has a 39-Inch Vertical Leap [VIDEO]
Might the next big thing in basketball come from Canada?
14-year-old Jamar Ergas has been dazzling folks in the Great White North with 360 dunks and a rapidly improving overall game.
Ergas will be talking his talents to prep school in North Carolina next year, where he will be tested by much better competition. For now, check out his highlights.
Baseball Coach Gives Player Kidney
Wake Forest University baseball coach Tom Walter has given one of his players a kidney.
Freshman outfielder Kevin Jordan has ANCA vasculitis, a rare autoimmune disease that would have led to kidney failure by the time he finished college, unless he got a kidney transplant
Jordan had been trying to play baseball, despite his condition, but had been worn out by the daily dialysis treatments.
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Member of Super Bowl’s ‘Never Missed A Game Club’ Misses Super Bowl XLV
You know that Visa commercial, in which four older fellows talk about how they’ve never missed a Super Bowl?
Well, now only three of them have been to every Super Bowl. Illness prevented Bob Cook, a Packers fan, from attending his 45th straight Super Bowl, and seeing his favorite team play.
Cook had planned to go, but when it was time for the Brown Deer, Wis., man to go to the airport he realized
7 Other Singers Besides Christina Aguilera Who Flubbed The National Anthem
Christina Aguilera has the right kind of voice to belt out a memorable national anthem. Unfortunately, her performance at Super Bowl XLV will be remembered for the wrong reason.
As you’ve probably heard, Aguilera flubbed the anthem, forgetting the lyric “o’er the ramparts we watched.”
Aguilera is far from the first person to botch the Star Spangled Banner. Check out last night’s flub and seven ot