10-year-old arrested for violent soccer foul
(CBS) - A 10-year-old youth soccer player has been arrested in Hong Kong after a violent foul against an opposing player. The young boy can be seen in this video kicking the 12-year-old from the other team in the head. The video emerged last week, quickly circulating around the web and apparently leading to quick action from Hong Kong police.
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Female soccer star trying out for LSU football
Mo Isom
/ Facebook.com(CBS) - After being blanked by Alabama in the BCS title game, it's not surprising that LSU might look for a change. But change could be coming from an unlikely place. Mo Isom, goalkeeper for the LSU women's soccer team, will attend the first day of the Tigers' spring camp today to try out as the team's new placekicker. Isom would become the first female college football player in SEC and just the second in FBS history.
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Chad Ochocinco sprayed by lion at charity event
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(CBS) - Chad Ochocinco lives the celebrity life. He is a world-famous personality who makes a generous living as an elite athlete (though some might question whether 15 catches over the regular season this year counts as "elite.") His Twitter feed is followed by over three million people, and he's not afraid to say exactly what's on his mind. Even his problems are larger than life. Take the case this weekend, when Ochocinco tweeted that he was urinated on by a lion.
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NFL player cuts his famous hair for good cause
A.J. Hawk in a February 1, 2011 file photo (left) and after his haircut.
/ Getty/TwitterGreen Bay Packers player A.J. Hawk is known for three things - his tackling, his sense of humor and his hair.
Make that two things. The NFL linebacker has chopped off his long blond locks in the name of charity. Hawk cut off his hair this weekend and donated it to Wigs for Kids, an organization that provides wigs for children who have lost their hair while undergoing chemotherapy.
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Who are highest paid athletes of all time?
Joe Sakic (19) of the Colorado Avalanche warms up before the hockey game against the Minnesota Wild at the Pepsi Center on November 11, 2007 in Denver, Colorado.
/ Photo by Steve Dykes/Getty Images(CBS) - Star athletes get paid like stars. That was just as true 100 years ago as it is today. Sure the numbers may have gone up (Ty Cobb was making $85,000 in 1927, for example) but there has always been a gap between what the superstars are making compared to the average players. A recent analysis from 24/7 Wall St. is aimed at figuring out the highest paid athletes of all time. Their top ten list has some familiar names (Michael Jordan and Alex Rodriguez are up there) and some very surprising ones. Who did they determine the top-paid player of all time to be?
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Watch: Chair-throwing riot at boxing match
(CBS) The violence in the ring spilled out into the seats at an Argentine boxing match Friday night. Filipino Johnriel Casimero defeated Argentine Luis Lazare by TKO in the 10th round in a club in Buenos Aires. Fans apparently weren't pleased, and they let their feelings known by throwing chairs and refuse on the ring. Some rushed the ring to take swings at Casimero. The video above shows the scene.
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Watch: X Games highlights in super slow motion
(CBS) - The Winter X Games showcase some of the most impressive, jaw-dropping feats in the world of sports. Say what you will about "extreme sports" in general, but someone flying on a snowmobile hundreds of feet through the air upside-down is straight up awesome. Videographer Devin Graham knows that, which is why he put together this video of some of the X Games' biggest moments and slowed them down to a crawl. Hit play for some slopestyle in super slo-mo.
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Watch: LeBron almost steamrolls Marlins owner
(CBS/AP) - The Miami Heat bested the Lakers last night, but superstar LeBron James looked good enough to take on two teams. In fact, he almost did. A dive for the ball in the second quarter sent James into the stands, where he almost bulldozed Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria.
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Watch: UCLA game marriage proposal gets rejected
(CBS) - To say that UCLA's basketball season so far has been a disappointment would be an understatement. But that's nothing compared to what the guy in this video must be feeling. In the middle of UCLA's game against Richmond, the stadium's "mistletoe cam" picked out one young couple. Instead of going in for a kiss, the gentleman got down on one knee. What followed was awkward, heartbreaking, and not the kind of thing you want a whole stadium to watch.
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Watch: Amputee Soccer Championship shows heart and skill
(CBS) - In Akkara, Ghana, two national teams were vying for glory: a chance to get to the world championships of their sport. As the video above shows, this particular championship is the Amputee Football Championships. The players of Libera and Ghana were competing for a spot in an event that does more than crown a champion, it attempts to breaks down discrimination and sheds light on a far too common disability.
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Watch: Woman, 59, makes incredible hockey shot
(CBS) - Make the shot, win a prize. It's a staple of carnivals around the world - a deceptively simple game that is in practice nearly impossible. This video shows the hockey version of the age old game: hit the puck all the way down the rink into a net almost completely blocked off but for one puck-sized hole. No one could make that shot. Well, no one except for Brenda Hewett, who won a pickup truck at an Akwesasne Warriors minor league hockey game by doing the impossible. But what's more impossible to believe: that Mrs. Hewett made the shot, or that she'd never before held a hockey stick in her life?
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Best of 2011: Table Tennis trick shot edition
(CBS) - Everyone loves year-end lists. The best MLB catches. The sickest NFL runs. They're all golden. But let's spend a moment with one of the most underappreciated sports out there: professional table tennis. It's a game everyone has played and no one watches. But when a year's worth of ping pong highlights are condensed into less than four minutes of material, we get a video that deserves to be on any "Best of 2011" list.
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Watch: Tim Tebow rap - "All He Does is Win"
(CBS) - All Tim Tebow does is win, win, win no matter what. We all know the story by now. No need to rehash the miracles Tebow (and more importantly, the Denver Broncos defense) has performed on the field in the past few weeks. But amid all the Tebow hype, there is one thing missing. Finally, we have the one piece that will complete the puzzle: a Tim Tebow rap. Featuring ESPN's Skip Bayless, this Tebow jam is called - what else? - "All He Does is Win."
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2011 Top Twitter sports trends
Wayne Rooney
/ Clive Brunskill/Getty Images(CBS) - What do Wayne Rooney, Jim Harbaugh, Rashard Lewis and Bert Blyleven have in common? They are all sportsmen who have had notable years. They were also some of the top trending topics on Twitter in 2011. The social media giant released its list of the top trends of the year, broken down by topic and category. What teams, players and stories dominated the hash tag charts this year? Let's take a look.
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