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Robert Iselin Jr., was shot once in the chest by Lucas Brickweg during a hunting trip in Greenwood County, S.C. Witnesses have said the shooting was an accident.Robert Iselin Jr., 51, of Jacksonville, Fla., was shot to death in South Carolina by fellow hunter Lucas Brickweg of Satellite Beach, Fla., who mistook him for a wild boar. A hunter was mistakenly shot dead by his friend who confused him with a wild boar, police have said. Robert Iselin Jr., 51, was gunned down by 25-year-old Lucas Brickweg during a hunting trip in Greenwood County, S.C., at 9 a.m. Saturday morning....

Stallworth is reportedly in stable condition, and suffered burns when the hot air balloon he was traveling in hit power lines. He was traveling in the hot air balloon with his girlfriend, and it's unknown whether or not she suffered any injuries as well. The New England Patriots signed Stallworth in 2012, but placed him on injured reserve after New England's Week 14 win over the Houston Texans. Stallworth suffered an ankle injury after hauling in a 63-yard touchdown pass from Tom Brady, and unfortunately saw his season cut short as a result. The Patriots are believed to be interested...

AP re-post.The creativity of bacon art continues.

A sled dog that went missing during the Iditarod race in Alaska was found nearly a week later after backtracking much of the race. May, owned by Jim Lanier of Chugiak, was on loan to Jamaican musher Newton Marshall during the 41st Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race last week and went missing from her team Friday, the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News reported Friday. Veteran musher Stan Smith, a of May's owner who is giving the dog temporary shelter at his home, said sightings indicate May backtracked much of the race after being separated from her team. "She traveled several times...

A group of adventure sports enthusiasts made the most of the good weather in the West Fjords over the last couple of days. Eighteen photographers, journalists and professional skiers are currently in the region to work on a new booklet for outdoor clothing company Marmot. Three members of the group skied or snowboarded their way down Hrófarsteinsgil canyon from the top of Kirkjubólsfjall, the steep mountain opposite Ísafjörður, bb.is reports. Among the professional athletes were daredevil Roman Rohrmoser and Nina Schlesener, one of the best known ice climbers in Europe and the youngest female mountain guide in Germany, as well...

Melbourne Formula 1 2013 Race Date: 17 Mar 2013 Circuit Name: Albert Park First Grand Prix: 1996 Number of Laps: 58 Circuit Length: 5.303 km Race Distance: 307.574 km Lap Record: 1:24.125 - M Schumacher (2004) Fri Sunny 24C Sat Cloudy 22C Sun Cloudy 19C

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Notre Dame is joining the Atlantic Coast Conference a season earlier than expected, following the split among the Big East's football schools and seven Catholic schools that are leaving to form a basketball-focused conference. Notre Dame announced the move Tuesday, six months after it surprised the college sports world by opting to join the ACC in all sports except football and hockey.

My latest. Some of Barack's most memorable shots. Warning: contains some muffled swearing; then again, you'd do the same if you were 98 over par.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjFHpdxA5Kg

“Do you see the Freeh report differently now than you did at the time?” “Oh yes, very much so.” Those words came from Emmy-winning journalist Bob Costas last week in a radio interview with Kevin Slaten of KQQZ in St. Louis. Costas spoke at length to Slaten about his evolving opinion of the Freeh report, Joe Paterno’s legacy, and the Penn State situation as a whole in what is some of the most balanced rhetoric I’ve heard from a national media source about the Sandusky scandal. Costas has been on top of this story from the start, most notably in...

Spring training is a time during pre-season where players get to practice, play and make mistakes. This year, even the ball girls are getting in on the blunders. The Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays were in the top of the sixth inning this weekend when Rays' hitter Shelly Duncan hit a ground ball that bounced into left field foul territory. The ball was ruled fair, but a Hooters ball girl picked it up with her glove and handed it to a fan in the stands. The embarassing move wasn't a total loss. "She has no idea that she has...

WATERLOO, Ill. (AP) — When it comes to dealing with this divot, score one for golfer Mark Mihal. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/13QvcoX ) reports that the mortgage broker from Creve Coeur, Mo., is recovering after a sinkhole opened up beneath him Friday on the fairway at the 14th hole of a southwestern Illinois golf course. The pit that swallowed him was 18 feet deep and 10 feet wide.

Another incredible Big Ten wrestling team title race was won by another incredible final-day finish by Penn State. Boasting four champions and 10 NCAA qualifiers, the Nittany Lions outscored a charging Minnesota team and a sagging Iowa squad to win their third straight Big Ten crown. Penn State tallied 151 points to Minnesota’s 139 and Iowa’s 130.5. David Taylor at 165 and Ed Ruth at 184 became three-time Big Ten champs, the third and fourth Nittany Lions ever to do so. And Penn State will take all 10 wrestlers to the NCAAs for the first time in 16 years. Penn...

A famed Brazilian soccer goalkeeper has been convicted in the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Friday, a court said. The former Flamengo star Bruno Fernandes das Dores de Souza was sentenced of 22 years and three months for the murder of Eliza Samudio and the abduction of a child. The player's ex-wife, who was also on trial, was acquitted of kidnapping the child.

Saturday's Pool D World Baseball Classic game between Canada and Mexico saw plenty of aggressive play before devolving into an extended and ugly brawl in the ninth inning. After a number of hard slides and a collision at the plate involving Mexico's Karim Garcia, Arnold Leon threw two pitches at Canada's Rene Tosoni, sparking a bench-clearing fight between the teams.

New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera, 43, announced Saturday that this will be his last season playing professional baseball. While he was with the Yankees the team won five World Series titles. Rivera hopes to end his career with one more. Saying he made the decision before arriving at spring training, Mariano Rivera announced Saturday that he will retire at the end of the season and hopes to cap his record-setting career by winning another World Series with the New York Yankees. Rivera was surrounded by family and teammates when he made the announcement during a news conference at the...

With a one-point lead, 2.9 seconds to play and possession of the ball, all Hugo High School had to do was inbound the basketball and run out the clock to advance in the Oklahoma state boys’ basketball tournament. But what followed stunned everyone. Hugo guard Trey Johnson got confused after he received the inbounds pass and laid the ball into the wrong basket just before time expired, giving the opposing team, Millwood High, a 38-37 win Thursday night and a place in the Class 3A semifinals.

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US high school basketball player Khalil Edney has become a minor celebrity after video of his incredible last ditch game winning shot went viral onlineEdney made an improbable 55-foot shot at the very last possible moment to earn his team a 61-60 comeback win over opponents Mount Vernon in a New York high school game on Sunday. US sports broadcaster ESPN called the remarkable shot "the craziest ending to a basketball game. Ever."

FORT WORTH, Texas – Texas Motor Speedway announced Monday that the National Rifle Association would serve as title sponsor for the April 13 Sprint Cup race at TMS...."NRA members and NASCAR fans love their country and everything that's good and right about America," LaPierre said in the message. "We salute our flag, volunteer at our churches and communities, cherish our families. And we love racing."

<p>Danica Patrick’s day ended in disappointment after she blew a right-front tire during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Subway 500 and wrecked on the frontstretch at Phoenix International Raceway.</p> <p>The accident on Lap 185 was further compounded when David Ragan slammed into her No. 10 GoDaddy.com Chevy SS.</p>