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Look no farther than Portland's Eastern Promenade for proof on Sunday as the walking dead take to the baseball fields to play the time-honored sport of kickball. Picnics will be ruined, dog walks disrupted, and bike rides seriously altered. And it could be just the beginning – we could be looking at zombie scavenger hunts (for brains), zombie capture the flag (for brains) and zombie marches (for equal rights ... and brains). This is the third straight year of Zombie Kickball. Typically the pastime of elementary schoolers (and occasionally low-watt thrill-seeking 20- and 30-somethings), kickball has an unknown appeal to...

ABC13 Eyewitness News (12/15/04 - HOUSTON) — A Richmond couple is upset at a Sugar Land pet store they say gave away their beloved Pomeranian to a stranger. Jana Brown says she dropped off her purebred Pomeranian named Mercedes to a Sugar Land Petco to get groomed more than a week ago, just as she has done dozens of times before. But ... ~snip~ Click here to continue and see video

The runner rounds third and pounds toward home plate. With the ball still stuck in the outfield, a home run looks inevitable. But the grass, slick from the drizzling rain, proves to be the defense's greatest ally. The runner slips, and with cartoon-like acrobatics, flies through the air and lands flat on his face. Just as he gets to his feet, the third baseman throws the large yellow rubber ball at the target on the back of the runner's team shirt, tagging him out. No, this isn't a strange version of baseball or softball. This is kickball, that great American...