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UNUSUAL SPORTSby Rick Dandes

In America, it’s football and baseball. In Canada, ice hockey and curling are major passions. In most of the rest of the world, it’s soccer. But did you know that all over the world there are national sports that you’ve never even heard of? This week Tidbits takes a look at just a few of those wild and wacky oddball sports. Let the games begin.

• The World Games, first held in 1981, are an in-ternational multi-sport event meant for sports not in the Olympic Games. Some of the current sports in the World Games are bodybuilding, power lifting, fin swimming, squash, netball, billiards, ten-pin bowl-ing and water skiing. It has not been uncommon for World Game events to become Olympic events.• Extreme ironing is an up-and-coming sport that started in the United Kingdom in 1997. Ironing? It sounds pretty boring, right? Wrong! I don’t think you’d see a typical homemaker ironing this way. It’s the “extreme” in extreme ironing that makes it excit-ing, challenging and dangerous. The objective is to iron in different and dangerous places such as while mountain climbing, water skiing, canoeing or sky-diving. There’s even a world championship for the sport.• Cheese rolling is a sport in England that takes place annually on Cooper’s Hill in Gloucestershire. This isn’t just any ordinary hill. Cooper’s Hill is so steep that it’s at a 70-degree angle in places. The sport involves a wheel of cheese that’s rolled down hill. The rules are simple: Run after the cheese, and try to be the one that has the cheese at the bottom of the hill.

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On September 23, 1949, Bruce Springsteen was born, of course, “in the USA.” With his gruff but powerful vocals, the energetic singer has secured his spot on America’s list of rock superstars.

• Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jer-sey, and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was, amongst other things, a bus driver.• The first song a young Springsteen learned play on the guitar was allegedly the Beatles’ “Twist and Shout.”• In the late 1960s, Springsteen performed briefly in a power rock trio known as Earth, playing in clubs in New Jersey.• Also around that time, Springsteen acquired the nickname “The Boss.” While playing club gigs with a local band, one of his tasks was to collect the band’s nightly pay and distribute it amongst the members. But Springsteen has never liked the nickname, due to his dislike of bosses.• Springsteen’s E Street Band has roots in real-ity. The actual E Street runs northeast through the New Jersey shore town of Belmar. According to Springsteen lore, the band took its name from the street because original keyboard player David Sancious’ mother lived there and allowed the band to rehearse in her house. • The Boss meets the King? After a 1976 concert in Memphis, Springsteen went to Graceland at three in the morning, jumped the wall and ran to the front door. Security grabbed him before he could make it to the door and sent him packing. Knocking wouldn’t have done much good, any-way. Elvis was in Lake Tahoe at the time.• In May 1977, Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt went to an Elvis Presley concert in Philadelphia. A few days later Springsteen wrote “Fire,” and allegedly sent a demo of the song to Presley that summer, hoping he might cover it. Whether the tape got sent or not, Presley died that August, and Springsteen wound up giving “Fire” to Robert Gor-don. Gordon’s version of the song was covered by the Pointer Sisters who made it a hit in 1979.• One of his most famous songs, “Thunder Road,” was inspired by the 1958 Robert Mitchum movie of the same name.• Springsteen has been listened to all over the world, and even in space. During a December 1999 flight of the space shuttle Discovery, his song “Rendezvous” was played as the crew’s wake-up call. It was the third day of the mission, and the crew was scheduled to rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope. • Springsteen inspires some pretty extreme acts of fandom. Recently, “No Retreat, No Surrender,” a “worst-to-first countdown of every album cut in Springsteen history” came out. In all, the creators of the list ranked and wrote about (sometimes at length) 200 songs. They ranked “Real Man” from the album “Human Touch” last and “Born to Run” first.• Springsteen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Bono of U2 gave the induction speech. When U2 was inducted in 2005, Spring-steen gave their induction speech, returning the favor.

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DOG OF THE WEEK:“MacGruber” Unrated Edition -- Comedy is subjec-tive. One person’s laugh-riot can be a dreadful, tedious bore to another. So how can you know if “MacGruber” is the comedy film for you? Easy, just take this simple quiz: 1. Are you a boy between the ages of 10 and 10-and-a-half? 2. Do you have the IQ of a small sack of soggy, dead field mice? 3. Are you a potato or some species of weevil? If you answered “Yes” to any of the previous questions, then “MacGruber” is just your comedy speed.“MacGruber” is based on a series of tired, one-gag “SNL” sketches parodying the old “MacGyver” TV show, and the latest in a 30-year parade of horrible films based on “SNL” sketches (“It’s Pat!” anyone?). Will Forte stars as MacGruber, an ex-special forces guy who comes out of retirement to thwart the evil machinations of Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer), a mercenary who has stolen a nucle-ar bomb and is trying to retrieve the launch codes. The fact that the villain of the film is named Cunth pretty much sums up the high comedic standards of this film. Seriously, it’s not even worth a rental.

TV SERIES“The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles”“The Office” Season Six“The Colony”“Prime Suspect” Complete Collection“Chuck” The Complete Third Season“Clatterford” Season 3 “Smallville” The Complete Ninth Season

TOP TEN MOVIES1. The Expendables (R) Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham2. Eat Pray Love (PG-13) Julia Roberts, James Franco3. The Other Guys (PG-13) Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg4. Inception (PG-13) Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (PG-13) Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead6. Despicable Me (PG) animated7. Step Up 3D (PG-13) Adam G. Sevani, Sharni Vinson8. Salt (PG-13) Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber9. Dinner for Schmucks (PG-13) Steve Carell, Paul Rudd10. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (PG-13) James Marsden, Nick Nolte (voices)

TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD of August 21, 2010Top 10 Video Rentals1. Clash of the Titans (PG-13) Sam Worthing-ton2. Cop Out (R) Bruce Willis3. The Bounty Hunter (PG-13) Jennifer Aniston4. Repo Men (R) Jude Law5. The Losers (PG-13) Jeffrey Dean6. Hot Tub Time Machine (NR) John Cusack7. Brooklyn’s Finest (R) Richard Gere8. The Crazies (R) Timothy Olyphant9. Our Family Wedding (PG-13) Forest Whita-ker10. She’s Out of My League (R) Jay Baruchel

Top 10 DVD Sales1. Clash of the Titans (PG-13) (Warner) 2. Batman: Under the Red Hood (PG-13) (War-ner)3. Repo Men (R) (Universal)4. Cop Out (R) (Warner)5. The Bounty Hunter (PG-13) (Sony)6. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Light-ning Thief (PG) (20th Century Fox)7. Losers (PG-13) (Warner)8. Avatar (PG-13) (20th Century Fox)9. Hot Tub Time Machine (NR) (20th Century Fox)10. Alice in Wonderland (PG) (Buena Vista)

PICKS OF THE WEEK

New DVDs reviewed in this column will be available in stores the week of Sept. 6, 2010.

“Tommy, the Movie” [Blu-ray] (PG) -- Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret and Roger Daltrey star in Ken Russell’s trippy production of The Who’s legendary rock opera about a boy who be-comes deaf, dumb and blind after catching his mother having an affair. Despite failed attempts by doctors and drug dealers to cure him and frequent episodes of physical abuse, Tommy grows up to become a Pinball Wizard and leader of a religious cult. With over-the-top per-formances from Tina Turner, Jack Nicholson, Keith Moon and Elton John, this 1975 rock-stravaganza (yeah, I said it!) shifts frantically between high camp, low art and electric may-hem. Fans of Ann-Margret will also enjoy the musical number where she wears a crocheted catsuit and writhes seductively amongst a tsu-nami of chocolate and baked beans. Mee-ow!

“Playing For Time” (Unrated) -- Based on the autobiography of Fania FŽnelon, this Arthur Miller-penned 1980 production about the musicians of Auschwitz is possibly the best Holocaust film made for television. Vanessa Redgrave won an Emmy for her portrayal of FŽnelon, a reknowned Jewish pianist who is spared from hard labor and placed in the death camp’s female orchestra, where she and the other musicians are forced to play for their cap-tors. “Playing For Time” is a heart-wrenching and powerful drama you simply must experi-ence.

And last but not least, two classic Peanuts TV specials are being released on Blu-Ray this week: “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.”

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¥ It was 19th-century author Samuel Butler who made the following sage observation: “Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.” ¥ When the city of New York was concerned about leaks in its main water-supply system, it found a novel approach to the problem. Six ex-perienced deep-sea divers were hired to live in a pressurized tank within the water-supply tunnel for a month while they investigated the leaks. ¥ Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Popsicle was in-vented by an 11-year-old boy. ¥ If you would like to get into modeling and live the glamorous life, you might want to reconsider: Researchers at Dow Jones MarketWatch have found that the average model makes a mere $11 to $12 per hour. ¥ Statistics show that for every person born in the United States, there are 15 puppies and 45 kit-tens born. ¥ In 1950, the average executive earned about 30 times as much as the average worker. Today’s executives earn 300 to 500 times as much. ¥ Evidently wild monkeys are causing a bit of trouble for railroads in India. It seems that the monkeys board trains and run amok, causing no small amount of consternation to the passengers. To combat the problem, police in the city of Delhi hired a black-faced langur monkey to ride the trains and frighten off the wild monkeys. There’s no word on what wages were offered.

Thought for the Day: “A conference is a gather-ing of important people who singly can do noth-ing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.” -- Fred Allen

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UNUSUAL SPORTS (continued):• Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian sport that was de-veloped during the time of African slavery in Brazil. It’s actually a form of fighting and self-defense, but is done through music, incorporating rhythm and dance. A group of people gather in a circle and take turns getting in the center to spar. In modern times, there is usually no contact, but rather near misses as the sport is more about technique and style than it is about beating up your opponent.• Underwater hockey? You betcha. Invented in 1954, underwater hockey is exactly what the name implies, but this form of hockey is non-contact. There are two teams of 10 people, but only three from each team are in play at one time. All players wear snorkels and flippers while playing the game. Another difference between underwater and regu-lar ice hockey is that the underwater stick is one foot (30 centimeters) long as opposed to four feet (1 meter) long.• If you think underwater hockey sounds tough, you haven’t seen underwater rugby. This is a sport with two teams of six players. The object is to get a ball filled with saltwater into a goal to score. The ball must never leave the water. Each team has six players in the water and six substitutes that can switch with a player at any time. A player in this game must have extreme endurance, speed, mo-bility and strength.• Disc golf or Frisbee golf has been around since the 1960s but has gained a lot of popularity since then. The rules are similar to golf in that it’s played on a course, the strokes are counted, and the low-est score wins. However, instead of a ball, the play-ers use discs. Instead of a green with sand traps, the course is usually not groomed and may be out in the woods, or at least has wooded terrain. In-stead of trying to get a ball in a hole, you try to get your disc into a metal basket.• Unicycle hockey is like ice hockey or roller hock-ey but with unicycles instead of skates. Unlike ice hockey, there’s no physical contact with other players. Though there are unicycle hockey teams in the United States, Australia, Canada and other countries, there are only two countries that cur-rently have national leagues: Germany and Great Britain.

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• Curling was originally an outdoor sport that origi-nated in 16th century Scotland, but it is now an in-door sport. Since 1998, curling has been an Olym-pic sport. Two teams of four people each throw polished granite stones down an alley of ice, and then their teammates can help the stones along by sweeping them down the alley with brooms. Scor-ing is calculated by the way that the stones are strategically placed, and for this reason it is often called “chess on ice.”• Extreme croquet is closely related to lawn cro-quet, but the biggest difference between the two is that extreme croquet isn’t played in someone’s backyard. Instead it’s played in rough terrain. The rules are similar, but there are two wickets in ex-treme croquet as opposed to the single wicket in the backyard version of the game.• Netball is a particularly fast sport that requires a high level of skill. It was created by an American basketball coach attempting to improve basket-ball skills. Netball is now played predominantly by women in 25 countries throughout the world, par-ticularly in Australia, New Zealand and England. There are seven players on each team and the aim of the game is to get the ball in the opposing goal hoop as many times as possible throughout a 60-minute match. Each team member plays a specific position and is restricted to an area on the court. • Remember playing Rock, Paper and Scissors with your buddies? If you’re good at it, there actually is a national league (USARPS), which has taken the schoolyard game to an extreme level, with official rules, tournaments and prizes up to $50,000. • Man versus horse? Yup. The annual Man Versus Horse Marathon requires stamina and agility. Tak-ing place in the Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells, the marathon puts human contestants up against mounted horse contestants. This unusual sporting event started in 1980, after someone heard two men arguing about whether or not an individual could beat a horse in a cross country race. Soon after, the sport was born. • A popular activity for children, toe wrestling is now a competitive sport. The World Toe Wrestling Com-petition first started at a pub in England in 1976. Locals thought it would be a great idea to hold a competition where individuals lock toes together and force their opponent’s foot to the ground.

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DEAR CAROL: Thanks! Vetericyn’s website (http://www.vetericyn.com) claims the treatment reduces healing time for wounds by up to 60 per-cent, and that it’s nontoxic and doesn’t damage healthy tissue.Now, I tend to look askance at any product that claims to be a cure-all, so I did a bit of research on this relatively new product, which has been touted to the equine world for about a year and is beginning to take off as a treatment for household pets.Vetericyn is a mixture of ionized water and very low amounts of bleach and sodium (salt) -- all of which are pretty effective at killing bacteria, virus-es and fungi. But some horse owners have men-tioned on equine forums that it was not effective in helping wounds heal. Others think it’s a great product. Does this mean you shouldn’t use Vetericyn? Feel free to give it a try. If your pet is suffering from a sore that won’t heal, however, I strongly recom-mend you work with your vet during treatment so he or she can monitor your pet’s progress and provide treatment alternatives should they be needed.

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