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3/27/2006 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- In the world of sports, there have been some incredible streaks. Cal Ripken Jr. played in 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games. Lance Armstrong was victorious in seven Tour de France races. Football great Johnny Unitas threw at least one touchdown pass in 47 straight games. But none of these streaks compare to the impact that one unit is having on the war on terrorism. The 99th Aircraft Maintenance Unit is working on a streak of more than 155 consecutive launches without a maintenance-related cancel to meet the air tasking order for the U-2...

PINEROLO, Italy — Notorious British streaker Mark Roberts has apparently struck again. A man wearing running shoes, a rubber chicken taped over his genitals and a towel on his head came out of the stands during the Olympic bronze medal curling game Friday, earning some laughs from the British and American rinks before he was taken away by security. An Italian press agency indentified him as Patrick Roberts, a 42-year from Liverpool who was also responsible for a streaking incident at Wimbledon, and said he was in police custody. That description would seem to better fit Mark Roberts, a man...

Student apologizes for streaking prank By TRICIA CORTEZ LAREDO MORNING TIMES Sporting "We Support the Coop" T-shirts in green and yellow Nixon High School colors, nearly 40 people packed the small 94.9 studio early Wednesday morning for James Cooper Jr.'s mock graduation ceremony. Principal Sylvia Rios did not allow Cooper, 17, to cross the stage with his graduation class Wednesday evening because he streaked in front of students during lunch last week. Just before the 7 p.m. commencement ceremony, school officials also barred Cooper and roughly 25 family members and friends from entering the Laredo Entertainment Center wearing "We Support...

A student from a Towanda (Bradford County), PA. high school was sentenced 6 months to 2 years in jail for streaking stunt during outside graduation ceremonies. The student had no prior arrest history.

Old school days long gone, but not forgotten: Congressman's streaking stunt exposed DALLAS The gloves have come off in a tight election race between two Texas congressmen -- and every other article of clothing appears to be fair game as well. Democrats are circulating old newspaper clippings of a 1974 college streaking stunt staged by hundreds of students at what was then called Southwest Texas State University. One of the participants was an 18-year-old freshman named Pete Sessions -- who grew up to become a conservative Republican congressman. A Sessions spokesman says the congressman's "old school days are long gone"...

Sitting in a San Diego bar a year ago and pondering the idea of streaking Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston, Mark Roberts' emotions drifted to a place they don't often visit. Fear. "They'll kill me down there," said Roberts, a native of Liverpool, England. "That's Texas -- they'll execute me." Yet there was Roberts Sunday night, using a Velcro officiating outfit to sneak his way onto the field at Reliant Stadium, then stripping the clothes off and parading around in a silver G-string. So much for hesitance. "I got it in my head that I had to streak the Super...

Chilling crime: Streakers in restaurant watch as their car stolen The Associated Press SPOKANE — Three men streaking through the warmth of a Denny's restaurant were chilled and chagrined when they spotted a thief driving away in their getaway car, their clothing inside. Naked in the 20-degree weather, the three young men huddled behind cars in an adjacent parking lot until police arrived. "I don't think they were hiding. I think they were just concealing themselves," police spokesman Dick Cottam said. The trio, wearing only shoes and hats, entered the restaurant in north Spokane at about 5 a.m. Wednesday. They...

<p>Three men who went streaking through a Denny's restaurant were chilled and chagrined when they spotted a thief drive off in their getaway car, their clothes inside.</p> <p>Naked in the 20-degree weather, the three young men huddled behind cars in a parking lot until police arrived.</p>

British streaker Mark Roberts jumps over the net of central court, during the final of the French Open at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, June 8, 2003. Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain defeated Martin Verkerk of the Netherlands to win the title, 6-1 6-3 6-2. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer A streaker and a security officer jump over the net as Spain's Juan Carlos Ferrero faces The Netherlands' Martin Verkerk in their men's final for the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros stadium in Paris Sunday June 8, 2003. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)