LIMA, Peru (AP) -- A chartered jet carrying 289 Gambian soccer fans pretended it needed to make an emergency landing so they could watch their team compete in the FIFA Under 17 World Championships, officials said Wednesday.

The plane, claiming to be low on fuel, landed Tuesday near the stadium in Peru's northern coast city of Piura.

The plane was owned by Air Rum Ltd. Just thought I'd add that.

Airliner fakes emergency so passengers can watch soccer game

SINGAPORE -- London will stage a reduced Olympic Games in 2012 after baseball and softball were wiped from the program in a controversial vote on Friday.

As long as they don't cut fencing.

Baseball axed from London Olympics

] GEUDA SPRINGS, Kan. -- Residents of this tiny
] south-central Kansas community have passed an ordinance
] requiring most households to have guns and ammunition.
]
]
] Noncomplying residents would be fined $10 under the
] ordinance, passed 3-2 earlier this month by City Council
] members who thought it would help protect the town of 210
] people. Those who suffer from physical or mental
] disabilities, paupers and people who conscientiously
] oppose firearms would be exempt.

Newsday.com - Kan. Town Requires Homes to Have Guns

] PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -- A man described
] by authorities as a known sexual predator was chased
] through the streets of South Philadelphia by an angry
] crowd of Catholic high school girls, who kicked and
] punched him after he was tackled by neighbors, police
] said Friday.

KICK ASS!!!!

Girls pummel man who exposed himself

] SALT LAKE CITY, May 28 -As it does now and again,
] Utah is looking for a few good marksmen.
]
] A search for volunteers began early this month after a
] state judge signed death warrants for two convicted
] murderers who have requested death by firing squad. Utah
] is one of only three states, along with Idaho and
] Oklahoma, where execution by a team of riflemen is
] available as an alternative to lethal injection.

I couldn't help but put this in THAT category. So much news about the death penalty lately, it's driving me to a giggling insanity.

Utah Officials Look for Firing Squad

And here I cringe at the mere thought of wearing contacts and having to touch my eyeball. :o

] MOAB, Utah (AP) -- A Colorado climber amputated his own
] arm Thursday, five days after becoming pinned by a
] boulder, and he was hiking to safety when he was spotted
] by searchers, authorities said.
]
] Aron Ralston, 27, of Aspen, was in serious condition late
] Thursday at a hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado.
]
] Ralston was climbing Saturday in Blue John Canyon,
] adjacent to Canyonlands National Park in far southwestern
] Utah, when a 200-pound boulder fell on him, pinning his
] right arm, authorities said.
]
] He ran out of water on Tuesday and on Thursday morning,
] he decided that his survival required drastic action.
]
] Using his pocketknife, he amputated his arm below the
] elbow and applied a tourniquet and administered first
] aid.
]
] He then rigged anchors, fixed a rope and rappelled to the
] canyon floor.

Climber amputates his arm, hikes to safey

] UConn is the national champion of women's basketball for
] the second straight season and for the third time in four
] years.
]
] UConn 73, Tennessee 68.

GO UCONN!!!!!!!

] Here's how you know the Tennessee-Connecticut women's
] basketball rivalry is something big: Almost all the
] participants spend a lot of time sidestepping the
] question of how big it is.
]
] Though they represent the two most decorated programs in
] the sport and between them will have won six of the past
] eight national championships after tonight's NCAA title
] game, the players and coaches on both sides say they are
] simply two teams who tend to play each other a lot.

NCAA WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT Connecticut, Tennessee are teams that need no introduction

] Bob Knight told Texas Tech he wouldn't accept his
] $250,000 coaching salary this year because his team
] failed to live up to his expectations -- and so did he.

Okay, now I could care less about sports. Actually, no. I couldn't possibly care less about sports. But the last line of this article says "Myers said it has not yet been determined what will be done with the money". I've got an idea!!! Why don't we use the $250K and send some poorer students to this college?! Would that be so difficult? Think of how many people want to go to this school and can't afford it. Blah. I'm one of those people who want to finish my education but can't afford it right now. Maybe he could give some of that money to me.

College Basketball - Men - Knight won't accept $250K salary from Texas Tech - Tuesday March 11, 2003 02:02 AM