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College football

Chadron back breaks record

Chadron State running back Danny Woodhead broke the NCAA all-division career rushing record, passing R.J. Bowers by running for 208 yards Saturday in a 21-0 victory over Western New Mexico in Silver City, N.M.

Woodhead got the 121 yards he needed to pass Bowers’ mark of 7,353 by the third quarter. Woodhead pushed his career total to 7,441 yards.

Bowers, who set the record from 1997-2000 at Division III Grove City (Pa.) College, and Woodhead are the only players to top 7,000 yards rushing in college football.

Last year Woodhead set an all-division single-season record with 2,756 yards rushing.

Baseball

Cubs truly goats again

Holy Cow! This is no way to exorcise the billy goat curse.

A grainy 14-second video posted on YouTube this week shows Chicago police cutting down what looks like a skinned goat’s carcass from the right arm of the Harry Caray statue outside Wrigley Field.

Gary Yamashiroya, commander of the Chicago Police district that includes Wrigley, told the Chicago Sun-Times in a story posted Saturday on its Web site that officers were called out to the ballpark at 5:35 a.m. Wednesday to check out reports of something hanging from the bronze statue.

Yamashiroya told the paper the goat appeared to be from a butcher but added: “I certainly hope someone didn’t kill a goat for a practical joke.”

The curse dates to the 1945 World Series, when the Cubs refused to let the owner of the famed Billy Goat tavern bring his goat to the game.

The curse lives on after the Cubs went three-and-out to the Arizona Diamondbacks in their playoff series.