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July 06, 1998

Go Figure

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Age, in years, of Orlando nursing-home resident Samie Howe, to whom the city's 1999 WNBA expansion team awarded its first season ticket.

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Months older, on average (at 27 years, four months), that the Marlins' Triple A affiliate Charlotte Knights are than their parent club.

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Days that a Springfield, Mo. , semipro football team was named the Psychos before complaints from mental-health workers persuaded owners to drop the name; the team is now the Rage.

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Percent of teenage soccer players responding to a Purdue survey who said they would intentionally foul, even at the risk of injuring an opponent, to prevent a goal.

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Respondents to an open casting call in Chicago for actors to play Michael Jordan in a TV movie.

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World Cup games, of the tournament's first 40, in which the refereeing was judged unsatisfactory by FIFA officials.

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Major league games scheduled for June 29, baseball's first planned actionless regular-season day in 25 years.

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