OK, so some guys in Georgia found a Bigfoot in the forest. And he was dead. So they took him home and stuck his poor, dead bones in a freezer. And that's where it is right now.
Sure.
The whole story, along with some murky photos, appears on page 6B of Saturday's York Sunday News. Here's the Associated Press version of the story.
Here are some additional layers to the story, as promised in today's Daily Record sports section.
1. The YouTube version of the Patterson-Gimlin film from 1976:
2. For past Bigfoot articles on The Lineup Card, including coverage of the Jacobs photos taken in Pennsylvania last year, click here.
Finally, click here to check out the latest news on Bigfoot, via Google. Many newspapers covered Friday's news conference in California, so you can read all the different perspective on those fellas from Georgia and the hairy beast they supposedly have on ice.
Across the country, some school districts are already facing tough choices on sports travel this fall, because of high gas prices.
In Franklin County, Ky., there's a new policy limiting road games to counties within a 50-mile radius on weeknights and a 75-mile radius on weekends.
Also in Kentucky, sports officials and referees who receive flat fees for staffing events are feeling the pinch, and some of them are deciding it's not longer affordable to hit the road anymore.
In Polk County, Fla., the school district cut two games from the maximum each team is allowed to play, to save money.
Meanwhile, in Tecumseh County, Okla., they're cutting bus routes but insisting that sports schedules will be played in their entirety. They have their priorities.
Now that the World Horseshoe Pitching Championships have come and gone from the York Expo Center (read about the men's champion and women's champion), Carl "Red" Arnold of Jacobus has checked in with some local horseshoes history.
Arnold writes: "I doubt if there are many people who would remember the Smoketown Horseshoe Team shown on this enclosed pictured. ..."
One exchange from a Joe Paterno question-and-answer session with the Reading Eagle's Rich Scarcella:
Q: Can you picture what Saturdays in the fall would be like for you if you weren't coaching?
A: Geez, I don't even think about that. I haven't gotten the slightest idea what I would do. When it comes time for me to decide I'm going to get out of it, I'll look around. I have very simple tastes. I have a whole bunch of grandkids. They're getting to the point where they're human beings and I'm starting to enjoy them. I don't know what I'm going to do.
(UPDATE: You can now read the Daily Record's version of this compelling story here.)
Zach McLain, a 2005 Dallastown High School graduate who was a two-time Daily Record/Sunday News all-star diver while competing for the Wildcats, is the subject of a lengthy new article on ESPN.com.
Normally, that would seem like a pretty sweet accolade for an athlete.
In McLain's case, however, it was a hellish -- and ultimately inspirational -- journey that led the national media to focus on his story.
McLain broke four vertebrae in his neck and suffered a huge gash in his head while diving at a swimming hole near his grandparents' cabin in Wellsboro, Tioga County, in July 2007. But, amazingly, just six months after the accident, McLain returned to competition for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's diving team.
"It's a story of victory in the sense of an individual who was dealt a challenge of life," Army diving coach Ron Kontura told reporter Adam Rittenberg for the 1,600-word story.
McLain's tale was also told by The NCAA News in February.
Associated Press photographer Julie Jacobson captured this amazing play involving New York Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon during the New York vs. Boston game at Yankee Stadium this afternoon:
The latest twist in the Sasquatch Saga ...
(for past updates on this story see this and this.)
... is that Field & Stream has come up with the brilliant (marketing-wise) plan of offering $1 million to the first person who takes a verifiable photo of a sasquatch using a trail camera.
Click here for the full details on their contest.
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Here's a YouTube clip of the final moments of Penn State's victory over Miami in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl. NBC's Charlie Jones, who died Thursday at age 77, is the play-by-play man here. He's the guy who makes the famous "Intercepted Giftopoulos!" call at the end.
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