A Japanese high school pleaded for a regional game to be abandoned after surrendering 66 runs in less than two innings, local media reported on Thursday.

The coach of Kawamoto technical high school threw in the towel to spare his pitcher's arm with his team losing 66-0 with just one batter out in the bottom of the second.

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A Nicolas Cage impersonator was treated like a star as he watched Real Madrid play AS Roma last week in Champions League match.

Paolo Calabresi, an Italian TV presenter, watched the match with Madrid  president Ramon Calderon from his box at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. “The truth is I was a little scared they would find me out, but from the first moment everyone was friendly with me”, Calabresi told Marca newspaper on Wednesday. “We knew there would be many repercussions. My phone won't stop ringing”.

Videos posted on Spanish media Web sites showed Calabresi, who's English  has an accent, being presented with a personalized Nicolas Cage team jersey from Calderon.

Calabresi also met and posed for photographs with Madrid forward Robinho.

The 43-year-old Rome native bears a resemblance to the actor, who won the  best actor Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas'' in 1996. He gained access by using the name of the same U.S. agency that had arranged a similar meeting for actor Sylvester Stallone at the Bernabeu last year.

Calabresi said the plan was originally initiated three years ago, when the two clubs last met.

Madrid lost the match 2-1 and was eliminated from the Champions League 4-2 on aggregate.

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Italians are used to buying bogus Gucci bags or Rolex watches to look stylish but police found a new height of craftsmanship and cunning when they broke up a ring selling fake Ferrari cars for a fraction of the real price.

Police accused 15 people of building the blood red sports cars and selling them to car fanatics on a budget, most of whom knew they were buying a counterfeit classic.

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Shirts and caps proclaiming the victory of the New England Patriots, when the American football team actually lost the latest Super Bowl, have ended up in the hands of poor Nicaraguan children.

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Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona wants to add an image of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to his well-known collection of tattoos of leftist leaders.

"I'd like to get some sort of Chavez tattoo, really,"  Maradona told reporters on Wednesday ahead of a celebrity indoor soccer match.

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