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 If you guessed Derek Bell's new business, you're right.
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WSU wants to nix Wazzu: True |
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Monkey mascot wins mayoral race: True |
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Washington State University president V. Lane Rawlins wants to purge "Wazzu" from school paraphernalia and official products because it is a vaguely derogatory term. WSU marketing director Mary Gresch said "Wazzu" will only be used as a secondary name on merchandise and that school officials want to "bring discipline to our name." Yet the school still acknowledges the Ryan Leaf era.
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Stuart Drummond, who campaigned in the H'Angus the Monkey costume he used for his job as mascot for the Hartlepool Football Club, was elected mayor of the town May 2. But Drummond quit his post with the English Third Division team May 3 to concentrate on his new job that will pay him $77,000 a year.
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Derek Bell, high-tech investor: False |
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Crow wanted to play Dale Jr.'s basement: True |
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Bell, who is living nicely off the second year of his two-year, $9.75 million contract, isn't going into the investment business. But, according to USA Today, the former outfielder has started a bus company and aims to get business from major-league clubs with his fleet of vehicles that numbers eight at the moment.
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While serving as grand marshall of the NAPA Auto Parts 500, Sheryl Crow (sharing a ride above with polesitter Ryan Newman) reportedly wanted to perform at Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s "Club E" in North Carolina. But according to Darrell Waltrip, "She didn't know it was in his basement. She thought it was a big nightclub over in Kannapolis."
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Mystics give players incentive: True |
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Too much poop on golf course: True |
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According to The Washington Post, the Mystics are offering their players $50 for every time they utter the ticket-sales phone number during interviews. There's a catch, however: The number has to get into print or on TV.
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Le Golf National's 15th green was damaged so badly by wild geese and seagull droppings that a new putting surface was laid just in time for last week's French Open, which was won by Malcolm Mackenzie (above). "They destroyed the surface by eating the grass down to below the crown of the plant and buried the green in their droppings," European Tour chief greenskeeper Richard Stillwell said. "Coming into the winter it was impossible to generate new growth."
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