Weird News

The pageant’s organizers admit Jenna Talackova is a “real girl,” but won’t let her in their beauty pageant because the Vancouver native was born a dude.

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Kazakhstan's Mariya Dmitrienko recently won the gold medal for 75 target shooting at the 10th Arab shooting championships in Kuwait.  Like many gold medal winning athletes, Dmitrienko must have been swelling with national pride when her country's national anthem was going to be played last.

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Closers are a different breed of ball player. Ricky Vaughn in the ‘Major League’ movies, Rollie Fingers and his mustache, Brian Wilson and his “fear the beard” campaign. Well, now there’s another nut to add to the dysfunctional family tree.

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“LA’s Friendliest Gentlemen’s Club”, the Jet Strip Cabaret, almost justified their slogan recently when they tried to donate $1,200 to save the Lennox Little League’s season.

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We all love the ESPN 'round these parts. If you're a man aged 25-54, chances are you do, too. But the Sports Monster doesn't just attract the guys, it attracts other demographics, too...like cats.

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We heard that everything is bigger in Texas, but older? Guess so.

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The market for sports collectibles pretty much collapsed about 15 years ago which is why all the sports cards you bought when you were a kid are sitting in a box in your parents’ basement. If you wait about 100 years those cards might be worth something again.

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There are seven billion people in the world, so it would stand to reason that at least one poor soul would be saddled with an overwhelming compulsion to ride around on the backs of high school athletes.

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An all-female group of British rowers proved that some things are just easier when you’re naked. The five adventurous ladies paddled their way across the Atlantic Ocean sans clothing in 45 days, breaking the previous world record (for speed, not the being nude part) in the process.

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If you’ve ever seen someone cut in line and wished you could take a Taser to them, the fate that befell a North Carolina woman who didn’t want to wait her turn may very well fill your heart with McNugget-like chunks of glee.

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