Topic: SPORT - on December 20, 2003 at 1:47:57 PM CET
Carry Your Own Bag, Says Caddie
Queenslander Marcus Cain missed the Australian Open cut by seven strokes on Friday after his caddie dropped the player's bag midway through the round and walked off.
"He had a disagreement with his caddie on the 12th hole," Australian PGA Tour operations manager Gus Seebeck told Reuters.
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Topic: SPORT - on December 11, 2003 at 7:17:41 PM CET
Schumacher's New Opponent: a Fighter Jet
Schumacher's Ferrari F2003-GA was a nose faster than pilot Maurizio Cheli's Eurofighter Typhoon in the first race of 600 meters. The plane then easily won at 1,200 and 900 meters.
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Topic: SPORT - on December 5, 2003 at 4:44:57 PM CET
Swedes turned on by naked skier
The campaign advertising the Norwegian winter wonderland with a naked, male skier, has had great success in Sweden, and the number of tourists is already improving. The Swedes were very receptive of the campaign showing a naked, male skier on his way over the snow covered Norwegian plains. The inscription on the picture is a charming pun on the fact that the man is actually not wearing anything at all except his hat, socks and shoes, and it urges people to ‘come the way you are because Norway is wondrous.’
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Topic: SPORT - on November 4, 2003 at 1:10:56 AM CET
Magic Johnson Signs Lifetime Contract With Harlem Globetrotters
Former Lakers superstar Earvin "Magic" Johnson Sunday signed a lifetime contract with the Harlem Globetrotters, the team announced.
But the NBA Hall of Fame forward won't be getting rich off his new job, he'll be getting $1 a year, said team owner and chairman Mannie Jackson.
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Topic: SPORT - on October 29, 2003 at 11:40:25 AM CET
WOMAN SIGNS FOR TOP ITALIAN SIDE
A FEMALE striker will be playing against Italy's top stars in Serie A next year.
Perugia have confirmed that 5 ft 3 in Hanna Ljungberg , 25, will line up for them from next January.
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Topic: SPORT - on October 19, 2003 at 9:59:33 PM CEST
Peter Reid und Lori Bowden gewinnen Ironman auf Hawaii
Peter Reid und Lori Bowden haben für ein Novum in der 25-jährigen Geschichte des legendären Ironman auf Hawaii gesorgt. Die Kanadier feierten als erstes Ehepaar einen Doppelsieg beim berühmtesten Triathlon der Welt.
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Topic: SPORT - on September 24, 2003 at 2:03:44 PM CEST
Bungy jumping/soccer fusion a hit in Japan
Football has gained considerable popularity in Japan, but even after last year's World Cup finals, it's a fair bet that local fans were not prepared for the vertical game.
But in Osaka, 12 storeys above the ground, football is defying gravity.
Admittedly, it isn't a full 11-a-side 90-minute match - only two players in action for 20 minutes a time.
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Topic: SPORT - on April 21, 2003 at 11:43:21 AM CEST
Too much beer blamed for marbles loss
Too much beer has been blamed for British teams losing the World Marbles Championships to Germany - for the second year in a row.
The 72nd annual contest was staged at the Greyhound Pub in Tinsley Green, West Sussex, on Good Friday.
The village, near Crawley, is reputed to be the scene of an epic marbles battle in Elizabethan times over the hand of a local maiden.
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Topic: SPORT - on April 17, 2003 at 10:24:24 AM CEST
Milking cows could help Schumacher
World Champion Michael Schumacher could better his performance on the track by getting his wife pregnant, taping a picture of his family to his steering wheel or milking cows to improve his finger work. Those were among the top 25 tips from among several thousand suggestions sent to German newspaper Bild by worried fans eager to help Schumacher overcome a nightmare start to the Formula One season with just eight points from three races.
"Schumi should give Ronaldo a call and get him to explain how 'passive sex' before football matches helps," wrote Bild reader Hubert Hink. "That should help."
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 7:12:19 PM CET
Underwater hockey
Some people will try anything to get to an affluent Western country to start a new life - risking their lives in creaking container ships or stifling trucks.
But a group of Moldovans appears to have found a rather more elaborate means of migration - by posing as a national team in the little-known sport of women's underwater hockey.
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a people-smuggler from the former Soviet republic came up with the idea of making prospective migrants look like underwater hockey players to get them visas for Canada.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 5:35:52 PM CET
Raging bull stops football matches
Two Sunday football matches had to be abandoned and playing fields evacuated when a bullock ran wild through a Wiltshire village.
The young bull became separated from his herd as he was being moved into a field in Lavistock.
Upset, he ran through the village before being cornered in a nearby garden.
Three more bulls eventually had to be brought into the garden to calm him down and coax him to safety.
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Topic: - on March 10, 2003 at 7:14:12 PM CET
May the Lord ski with you!
National Skiing Championships for Priests
That was the official motto at Italy's first ever "National Skiing Championships for Priests", where 40 clergymen, including a 73-year-old, competed on Friday.
The priests became downhill racers for the day in an event blending sporting prowess and spirituality, said organiser Renato Picciolo of the national Christian sports club that organised the championships.
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