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13 Olympic Facts That Will Blow Your Mind
If you don’t have Olympic fever yet, fret not. We’re here to help with a list of our 10 favorite facts about the games that you never knew.
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Critical Mass Rides Fridays
June 10, 2012 Earlier I posted about joining a weekly 'club' and the benefits of doing so: Critical Mass is a local/national bicycling organization that meets in Acadiana.
Critical Mass Lafayette met this past Friday evening in Lafayette and went for a little ride. I was leaving work from our back parking lot and had to wait for them to get past me, and it took a few minutes... there were several people riding!
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I’ll Have Another – Won’t
June 8, 2012 I'll Have Another, who was to race for the Triple Crown tomorrow, has bucked out of the race, and out of racing altogether.
According to Yahoo! Sports, it's tendonitis; according to the bookies, at a 4/5 favorite, the pain is greater than tendonitis!
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Little Leaguer Pulls Off Rare Unassisted Triple Play [VIDEO]
There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in Major League history. This makes the instant inning killer the rarest play in all of baseball.
Although they don’t keep track of such things, it stands to reason there have been more unassisted triple plays than that on the Little League level — just given the sheer number of games played.
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Are Some Dates, Or Numbers, Really Lucky Or Unlucky?
April 15, 2012 Friday the 13th. Why do so many people think that date is unlucky? I can't think of anything horrible that's happened to me on a Friday the 13th. I started dating the first love of my life on a Friday, the 13th
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Football Play At Basketball Game Pays Off
April 4, 2012 I am not a huge sports fan, but even I was confused when I saw this basketball team assume a football formation for their next play.
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Terrified Man On Bobsled [Video]
March 20, 2012
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Who Is the ‘Piggyback Bandit’ and Why Is He Acting So Creepy at High School Sporting Events?
There is a short, 240-pound man who will show up at high school sporting events, do things on the sidelines to help the team, then talk someone into giving him a piggyback ride and leave. No, it’s not a joke.
He started this practice in 2008 on the West Coast, but continues it to this day and recently turned up in North Dakota.
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Awesome Baby Is a Ping Pong Champ [VIDEO]
In this video, a baby sits on a ping-pong table and bats at balls with a killer forehand. If the remarkable accuracy he shows here is any indication, this kid is destined to be an Olympic table tennis star.
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Want to Sit on the Bench with the Harlem Globetrotters in Lafayette?
January 13, 2012 How would you like your child to be our Junior Globetrotter? One lucky Grand Prize winner will get a family four pack of tickets to the Globetrotters game, January 23rd, 2012 at 7pm at the Cajundome in Lafayette, plus they'll get 2 t-shirts, 2 basketballs and a Meet & Greet with a real live Harlem Globetrotters player!
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ESPN Interviews Jarrett Lee; One ‘Class Act’!
January 10, 2012
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UL Ragin Cajuns Basketball Team Scores On Powerplay
January 6, 2012 Wait a minute: A Powerplay?? In basketball??!!?!?! No way?!?
Yup, "way". It seems that in last night's game against the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, with 21 seconds remaining in overtime, UL in-bounded the ball with 6 men on the court.