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The Amarillo Sox have sent back their mascot after the new model arrived for its debut performance looking quite unexpected. "Instead of a soft-looking sock-type mascot," reported the local

The Japan Sumo Association has banned wrestlers from playing golf and ordered them to strictly obey traffic laws as the sport prepares to relaunch following a damaging bout-fixing scandal, reports Reuters. "This is really the start so I want the wrestlers to be braced for it," the JSA chairman, Hanaregoma, said. "I want them to go into battle feeling the nerves. There will be no playing golf and they will be told to adhere to the rules of traffic." Wrestlers will also have their mobile phones confiscated for the Grand Sumo Tournament in Nagoya, which starts next Sunday. It was the discovery of incriminating emails and text messages on mobile phones last summer that triggered the latest scandal.

Young men across India are playing their muscles in the hope that it will take a strong arm into a money spinning career in professional baseball. A competition called million-dollar arm provides a path to fame and wealth, with the winner of the last issue - rather than three years - with the hope that it's not an impossible dream. In 2008, Rinku Singh hit 35 000 competitors, a contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates to earn, and is now tipped to make the jump to Major League Baseball. The runner-up, Dinesh Patel, earned a contract with the Pirates, but has since returned to India. Both had dreams of Olympic javelin thrower care-fame before the competition. "I had not even seen a baseball before signing up for the talent show" Patel told Reuters, with his first paycheque he American 'off my married sister, renovated the house and built a private bathroom, " said. "It gives me great satisfaction that we dream of the trend and now many of us began to follow \," he added. "Mark my words, you could soon be more Indians to play professional baseball." The success of the first graduates to be that the film rights were bought by Disney. Vivek Daglur, vice-president of the company behind the competition, said: "It 's better to be a Millionaire Slumdog's \."