Asian Games offer big stage for popular, but little-known regional sports Canada.com
Young spectators watch the morning session of swimming heats at the Asian Games. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Sepak takraw. Wushu. Kabaddi, kabaddi, kabaddi.
Truly Asian: Asian Games offer big stage Boston Globe
Sepak takraw. Wushu. Kabaddi, kabaddi, kabaddi. The Asian Games -- a kind of mini Olympics for the world's most populous region -- is a showcase of the best athletes Asia has to offer. It is also a showcase of some sports so obscure outside their homelands that they are giving even Asia a touch of culture shock.
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Ed, I’m calling about the residential school on Stuyvesant Avenue. There is an outbreak of bedbugs. Kids are sleeping on cots and mattresses and being moved all over the place. They even had an exterminator come in, but the problem is still there.
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Asian Games offer big stage for popular, but little-known regional sports Canada.com
Young spectators watch the morning session of swimming heats at the Asian Games. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Sepak takraw. Wushu. Kabaddi, kabaddi, kabaddi.
Truly Asian: Asian Games offer big stage Boston Globe
Sepak takraw. Wushu. Kabaddi, kabaddi, kabaddi. The Asian Games -- a kind of mini Olympics for the world's most populous region -- is a showcase of the best athletes Asia has to offer. It is also a showcase of some sports so obscure outside their homelands that they are giving even Asia a touch of culture shock.
Around the Big Ten USA Today
Around the Big Ten
Death penalty result of corrupt judicial system The Buchtelite
Elmo Patrick Sonnier wasn't a great man. After violently murdering two teenagers in the late '70s, many say he was barely human. During his execution in 1981, the world didn't pause - few even turned to look.
A loss with a point to it Prince George Citizen Online
And, as if right on cue, the Prince George Cougars again proved they can run with the big Cats. The Cougars, who have exhibited an annoying habit of battling the league’s best but flopping against toothless bottom-feeders, gave the Medicine Hat Tigers all they could handle on Tuesday.
Trumann braves cold for parade Jonesboro Sun
TRUMANN -- Answering the holiday call Sunday afternoon, Trumann residents gathered to watch as nearly two dozen floats and groups participated in the town's annual Christmas Parade.
Crime wave breaks The Taunton Gazette
TAUNTON - A discussion between city councilors last week sent rumors around the city that Police Chief Raymond O'Berg told the media he didn't have a plan to tackle the crime wave that brought 90 break-ins in a month and a half.
Back Talk Trentonian
Ed, I’m calling about the residential school on Stuyvesant Avenue. There is an outbreak of bedbugs. Kids are sleeping on cots and mattresses and being moved all over the place. They even had an exterminator come in, but the problem is still there.
The worst Christmas specials and TV movies ever Middletown Journal
You know Charlie and Snoopy and Linus and Lucy, Rudolph and Ralphie and Frosty and Grinchy. But do you recall the most horrible holiday films of all? Not every Christmas movie or television special becomes an enduring classic, destined for annual repeats and holiday marathons.
More radiation checks in spy probe CNN.com
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