The general manager of a minor league baseball team who said he’d sleep outside until his team won a game ended up spending a week away from his own bed.
Dan Mason of the International League’s Rochester Red Wings camped in a tent in the club’s bullpen.
The team finally ended a 12-game losing streak with an 8-2 victory Tuesday night over the Syracuse SkyChiefs, after which relief pitchers carried Mason on their shoulders as he cracked opened champagne.
He says he’ll never take a good night’s sleep for granted again.
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A hundred homeless guinea pigs from California are being taken on a cross-country trip to get them good homes.
The Peninsula Humane Society in San Mateo came up with the idea after it had a glut of guinea pigs that were given up by their owners.
The first of the animals will be dropped off in Salt Lake City, the last in Toledo, Ohio. They’ll travel in a van with the sign “Toledo or bust.”
Teresa Murphy of guinea pig rescue group Cavy Spirit said: “Rescue railroads are common for dogs, but not for guinea pigs.”
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The brother of actress-singer Brandy is planning to release a new single that samples sounds of her giving birth.
Ray J. Norwood recorded Brandy’s voice while she was in labor with her daughter last month as well as the baby’s first cries. He believes the joyous sounds will be perfect for a new soul song he’s releasing on Atlantic Records.
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A lost Florida dog has been reunited with its owner six years after it went missing – thanks to a microchip under its skin.
A woman in Cincinnati found Pooh Bear the Pomeranian wandering the streets dirty and matted, and took the dog to her vet.
Dr. Cheryl Devine scanned the microchip and discovered that Pooh Bear’s owner, Bambi Lesne, lived in Panama City – 620 miles away.
Lesne, who gave up searching for Pooh Bear after three years, said the 13-year-old pet “howled with joy” when it arrived home.
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A Native American who put a curse on a California town’s sewer system said he will remove it if officials apologize.
Adam Fortunate Eagle Nordwall began the curse on Livermore after leaders “desecrated” a 20-foot totem pole he gave the city as a gift by cutting several feet off the bottom.
When officials refused to restore the pole, which depicts town founder Robert Livermore sitting under an eagle, Nordwall cursed the sewer system – and a week later, the sewers backed up.
Workers have restored the pole, but Nordwall will only lift the curse if the town apologizes at an official ceremony.