Bag of RandomnessThursday, August 27, 2026
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The life and times of Kensington's family
Toe wrestling is a sport gaining popularity in the UK. World championships started in Wetton in the 1970s and are now held at the Bentley Brook Inn in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Top players include Paul "Toeminator" Beech and Alan "Nasty" Nash, who is the current world champion.Click the image to learn more about the great sport of Toe Wrestling.
Notable North Texas athletes, mayors, and personalities offered their singing talents (or at least singing efforts!) to recreate Faith Hill’s hit single “This Kiss.” This must-see video debuted before Faith Hill’s concert at Bass Hall in Fort Worth for the opening concert of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s Kick-off Concert Series.
Russia's Evegni Plushenko believes he deserved the men's figure-skating gold medal instead of silver at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. In honor of his poor sportsmanship, TIME takes a look at other Olympic complainersClick the image to see the photos.

1,200 students, staff and faculty at the University of Alberta unofficially smash the Guinness World Record for most players in a single dodgeball game at the Universiade Pavilion better known as "The Butterdome" in Edmonton, Alta. on February 5, 2010. The former record was 450.
Walter Fredrick Morrison, the man credited with inventing the Frisbee, has died. He was 90.Click the image to read the article.
Designer Ralph Lauren's love of all things American is extending to Team USA once again.Click the image to read the article.
When about 150 athletes walk in the opening ceremony of the 21st Winter Olympic Games Feb. 12 in Vancouver, they'll wear navy puffer jackets, winter-white tapered pants and Fair Isle knit hats from the Polo Ralph Lauren Olympic collection, which is inspired by the 1932 Lake Placid Games.
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BCS bowl games are the single worst business arrangement in American sports. College football’s continued willingness to be fleeced by outside businessmen, who gleefully cut themselves in on millions in profits, makes even conference commissioners blush when confronted with the raw facts.Click the image to read the article.
What other business outsources its most profitable and easily sold product – in this case postseason football?
The bowls were needed back in the 1950s. These days they are nothing but leeches on the system. I happen to like watching bowl games – or any games, but outside of nostalgia they offer no value to a playoff system.
It’ll never make sense to allow businesses outside college football to determine how college football does its business.
College football could stage the 15 playoff games itself, cut out the middle men, and pockets hundreds of millions of extra revenue.