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Nothing in sports surprises us anymore after somebody actually bid more than $23,000 for bone chips from a middle reliever on an Internet auction site.

As Mariners reliever Jeff Nelson proved, sports fans will eat up anything. So it's a perfect time for another edition of Bizarre and Bogus.

Below we've compiled five strange-but-true sports-related stories and one that we made up. Guess which one you believe is fake, then click here to see which item isn't true.


Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson

  • No. 1 Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson will regretfully sell his sizable horse racing interests by November.

  • No. 2 High school junior LeBron James might be too young for the NBA draft, but the 17-year-old Akron, Ohio, phenom has already signed a six-figure book deal to tell his life story.

    LeBron James
    LeBron James

  • No. 3 A broken bottle of cologne will cause Spain's No. 1 goalkeeper, Santiago Canizares, to miss the upcoming World Cup.

  • No. 4 A group of 150 dog-meat restaurant owners in Seoul, South Korea, have scrapped a plan to offer World Cup tourists free samples of their dishes.

    DeShaun Williams
    DeShaun Williams

  • No. 5 Chicago Cubs manager Don Baylor blamed pitcher Kerry Wood's rough seventh inning, in which he gave up two solo home runs, on a singer's long version of "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch.

  • No. 6 Syracuse basketball player DeShaun Williams was arrested after a barroom brawl in which he is accused of punching the school's mascot Otto the Orange.





  • ALSO SEE:


    Bizarre & Bogus questions: May 9, 2002

    Bizarre & Bogus questions: April 11, 2002

    Bizarre & Bogus questions: Feb. 27, 2002

    Bizarre & Bogus questions: Feb. 11, 2002

    Bizarre & Bogus questions: Jan. 31, 2002

    Bizarre & Bogus questions: Jan. 22, 2002

    Bizarre & Bogus questions: Nov. 27, 2001

    Bizarre & Bogus questions: Nov. 2, 2001

    Bizarre & Bogus questions: Oct. 12, 2001





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