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Of all the things to blow up your scorecard—water, sand, shrubs, roots, rocks, beer, poison ivy, emails, lightning—the least expected has to be a wild animal literally plucking your ball off the green. Just ask Massachusetts golfer Hank Downey, who, in the middle of a round at Springfield Country Club this past weekend, watched helplessly as a fox kit scampered off with his ball following an otherwise decent chip. Good luck getting a ruling on this one, Hank:
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Despite the murky drop protocol, this is still much better than bumping into a gator or a pissed-off goose using the next tee box for a toilet, and Downey, to his credit, seemed more amused than anything else. “They've been at the course all summer,” said the 38-year-old Longmeadow local. “I've seen up to five of them at a time. I've heard the story of them doing the same thing to other golfers' balls.”
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The old thought is that if you're going to get ejected, you may as well get your money's worth. But one manager's performance on Wednesday was worth the price of admission for anyone in attendance to see the Chicago Dogs take on the Sioux City Explorers.
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Dogs (Great name for an Independent League baseball team) manager Butch Hobson (Great name for an Independent League baseball manager) was so unhappy with a check-swing strike called on one of his players that he grabbed a bat and demonstrated a check-swing for the umpire. But the theatrics didn't stop there.
Ol Butch then took a mighty cut and pretended to launch a home run. He then made a full home run trot — emphasis on trot — and even high-fived his third-base coach and celebrated with his team after crossing home plate. Check it out:
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Way to go, Butch. You are undoubtedly the most ..

David Cannon(Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images)Imagine the Egyptian tourism board banning the pyramids from its marketing campaign. Or France keeping the Eiffel Tower in the shadows, while Spain keeps the Sagrada Família on the down low. Wouldn't happen, right? Without these landmarks, why visit? For the food, culture, history, people? No thanks.
We bring this up because someone had the bright idea that Scotland, known for being the Home of Golf, to keep, um, golf out of the country's latest tourism endeavor.
The 110-page “insight findings” report from Lucid People Ltd. on a Scotland campaign video found golf to be too divisive to people. If that sounds ridiculous, know it's not the only head-scratcher in this Powerpoint, which looks like it was put together by a drunk 19-year-old who found out 40 minutes before class starts that the semester-long project is due. Said report also warns of using Sean Connery, Scotland's favorite son, because his James Bond role is “..

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