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Someone once said that only real fans turn out for September baseball.
Case in point, the San Francisco Giants and Seattle Mariners, both out of playoff contention and mired at the division bottom.
The Mariners just completed a three-game homestand against the Houston Astros, drawing 31,709 for three days.
The Giants, playing the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday, drew 41,128 and 123,377 for the series. Those are real fans.
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Football players are taught the shotgun or pistol formations. Now a youth football league in Oklahoma is making waves for raffling off tickets where the winner could get a handgun.
Bixby Youth Football president Jason Clark said the tickets should have been more clear: The winner got a gift certificate to a gun store, but did not have to buy a gun. Maybe they could buy an armored vest. Kinda like pads, huh?
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Pennsylvania’s Mansfield University hosted the first ever night football game in 1892, a contest that ended at halftime when the ref declared it “inconvenient to continue.”
Why? Because the lighting was so poor.
This weekend, the spotlight will shine far more brightly on Mansfield as it plays a home game under the lights for the first time in more than a century.
They just wanted to wait until all the bugs were worked out.
