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Post ‘em up

A woman who accused a Southwest Missouri State football player of sexually abusing her was unhappy he was still attending classes, so she did something about it.

The woman posted 100 bright yellow signs about Anthony Woodson’s recent arrest on sexual abuse charges on nearly every glass door and almost every women’s restroom at the university.

University officials had all the signs removed within a few hours.

“It is not fair to women that he is still on campus,” she told the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader.

The woman told police that Woodson attacked her under the stadium bleachers in June. She wants him suspended from school until his Dec. 3 preliminary hearing on the felony sexual abuse charges.

The felony charge against Woodson came after another university student was attacked as she walked near campus Oct. 14.

Woodson, suspended indefinitely from the football team, has pleaded innocent to the felony charge.

So posting signs about an alleged sex offender is not allowed, but plastering signs all over campus announcing tequila parties at Sigma Chi is OK?

Naked sky diving

Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards, the former British Olympic ski jumper, couldn’t accomplish anything with his clothes on, so he’s planning to jump naked.

Edwards, who finished last in the 1988 Calgary Games, intends to compete at next year’s World Championships and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan.

But before that, he wants to plummet down an icy ski run and soar through the air wearing only a safety helmet, a pair of boots and skis.

Hey, Eagleboy, you might want to invest in two safety helmets.

Coffee table book or beer coaster?

Before dawn on Saturday, March 23, 80 photographers and 10 writers set out on a special assignment - chronicle the activities of the 26 National Hockey League teams on and off the ice for 24 hours.

The result was “A Day In the Life of the NHL,” a coffee table type book that should delight hockey fans.

The photogs came up with 60,000 shots resulting in 300 final images.

They used 16,000 rolls of film, and that’s not counting dental X-rays.

Dusting home plate

Eddie Ellner, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based writer, carried out the dying wish of his 82-year-old grandmother, an ardent New York Yankees fan.

Before she died in 1990, she made him promise that if the team ever won a World Series again, he would scatter her ashes across the field at Yankee Stadium.

So Ellner flew to New York and went to Yankee Stadium where he scattered her ashes on home plate, the on-deck circle, along the first-base line, and over the infield. Ellner wouldn’t tell how he got into the stadium, saying only: “It is serendipity. Somehow my grandmother arranged it.”

The last word …

“It would have been great to have made the list. But I’m not going to be out in my garage, sucking on my car’s exhaust pipe, because I didn’t.”

- Former Denver center Dan Issel on not making the NBA’s top 50 list.

, DataTimes