Watch: One-legged soccer player's amazing goal
(CBS News) CONCORD, Mass. - His highlight reel soccer goal would have been the talk of the town anyway, but the fact that Concord-Carlisle junior Nico Calabria was born with only one leg makes it that much more amazing to watch.
AS CBS Boston reports, Calabria, who plays on crutches because he says prosthetics weigh him down, was on the field during a varsity game against Newton South on Wednesday when a corner kick came his way.
One unbelievable-to-watch scissor kick later, the ball was in the back of the goal, thanks to quite an athletic feat.
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Watch: 8-year-old steamrolls defense in TD run
(CBS News) "I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it." - Earl Campbell
Legendary Houston Oilers running back Earl Campbell was known as a "one-man demolition team" for his punishing style of play. It looks like 8-year-old Jayden Scott may have been studying film on the former Heisman trophy winner.
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Watch: Grenade thrown onto soccer field explodes
(CBS News) We've seen deranged soccer fans attack players on the field and even threaten them at gunpoint after practice. But throwing hand grenades onto the pitch?
That's apparently what happened in Iran during an Asian Champions League quarterfinal match between Iran's Sepahan and Saudi Arabian club Al Ahli.
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MLB star exits game after learning wife in labor
(CBS/AP) To quote manager Bobby Valentine, it's been a "lousy" season for the Boston Red Sox.
But at least second baseman Dustin Pedroia got a dose of good news in the 7th inning of last night's Yankees-Sox game when Valentine walked onto to the field and told the star that his wife had gone into labor
"I just got the word and told him, `It's time.' I told him to leave. I didn't ask him," Valentine said.
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Justin Bieber offered pro hockey contract
(CBS/AP) - Justin Bieber a hockey player?
Could be, if a California minor league team gets its way. The Bakersfield Condors have offered the pop singer a contract, if he wants to play with them this season. The coach says he has seen the Canadian-born native on skates - and think he has what it takes to play.
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Jerry Jones glasses wiped by son-in-law at game
(CBS News) Jerry Jones is many things. He is a rapper. He is an actor. But above all, he is a successful businessman who owns the Dallas Cowboys.
So it is perhaps no surprise that the 69-year-old owner of a team that was just valued at $2.1 billion has a guy who performs menial tasks for him. Apparently one of those tasks is cleaning his eye glasses.
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Watch: Paralympian's amazing shot goes viral
(CBS/AP) LONDON - With one diving cross-court winner at the London Paralympics, a crutch-holding British table tennis player has become an internet sensation.
A clip of David Wetherill's outrageous shot in his match against Thomasz Kusiak of Germany has received more than 3 million hits on YouTube.
"My biggest concern was that I looked like some silly little disabled boy rolling across the floor," the 22-year-old Wetherill said on Thursday. "But that doesn't seem to have been the case."
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Watch: College player runs 58 yards the wrong way
(CBS/AP) Kent State linebacker Andre Parker was jumping up and down after recovering a muffed punt and advancing it 58 yards last night.
But he was shaking his head when he learned that he had run the ball the wrong way.
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Watch: College coach starts water balloon fight
(CBS News) College football coaches use different strategies to reward players and build solidarity during the dog days of training camp. Ohio State coach Urban Meyer encourages his team to take a nap after a long practice. But Garin Higgins, the head coach at D-II Emporia State in Lyon County, Kansas, opted for a more intense method of team-building.
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Watch: NBA player's beard stars in commercial
James Harden was named NBA's Sixth Man of the Year this past season but he may get more attention for his trademark beard than his basketball skills. It has inspired a Twitter account, a Facebook page and countless copycats.
Now it has a starring role - opposite teammate Russell Westbrook - in a new Foot Locker commercial. It was only a matter of time.
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Watch: Player KO's umpire with cleat to head
Torii Hunter (48) of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim collides with umpire Greg Gibson in the fifth inning against the Cleveland Indians at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on August 15, 2012 in Anaheim, California.
/ Photo by Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty Images(CBS/AP) major league umpires are accustomed to being targeted by players - sometimes it's a helmet hurled their way; other times it's spit discharged in their general direction.
But Greg Gibson was the unlucky recipient of an inadvertent head kick Wednesday night in Anaheim. (Watch play below).
The Angels' Torii Hunter tried to score from first base on a double by Kendrys Morales that went over the head of Indians right fielder Shin-Soo Choo. Third baseman Jack Hannahan got the relay from Choo and threw to catcher Carlos Santana, who made a swipe tag on Hunter as he came in with a headfirst slide.
Hunter tried to get a piece of the plate with his hand and missed, but his left spike caught Gibson flush on the left temple and knocked him flat. He didn't move for a few anxious moments before getting up and leaving the field under his own power after being examined by Angels trainer Rick Smith.
He was replaced behind the plate by first base umpire Manny Gonzalez
Watch: Phoenix mayor breaks nose at WNBA practice
(CBS/AP) When then-presidential hopeful Barack Obama played a pick-up game with the University of North Carolina men's basketball team in 2008, the players didn't exactly go all-out.
But the Phoenix Mercury had a much different mindset when the city's mayor decided it would be a good photo op to practice with the team on Monday. While running drills with the WNBA team, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton went up for a rebound against the Mercury's Nakia Sanford and came down with a broken nose.
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Watch: Vandy walk-on surprised with scholarship
(CBS/AP) Vanderbilt football coach James Franklin is not your conventional guy - last year he made headlines by arriving via helicopter at high school games to scout players.
So it's perhaps no surprise that he turned a routine team meeting into a surreal moment for one football player.
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Watch: NFL great's tearful Hall of Fame speech
(CBS/AP) The linemen led the way as they always do, accepting their inductions into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with an abundance of humility. Curtis Martin finished the evening by supplying plenty of tears.
The last of the six players to have their bronze busts unveiled Saturday night, Martin used the big stage to recall his rough life, his mother's pain and his life-long indifference to the game that allowed him to become famous.
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Watch: 90-year-old pole vaulter goes for record
(CBS News) While U.S. pole vaulters are seeking gold at the London Games, another vaulter is setting records back on American soil. He also happens to be 90 years old.
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