Florida football coach Urban Meyer went out searching for the fastest student on campus and if one of those finalists can beat one of his Gators in the 40-yard dash on Saturday then a full scholarship is waiting.

Approximately 225 students took Meyer up on the offer. The numbers have been whittled down to the fastest 15 finalists.

Basketball coach Ron Hunter of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) went barefoot during a game and he did not expect the overwhelming support he obtained for an advocacy that intends to give pairs of shoes to thousands of African children.

"When we started this I thought 40,000 was going to be tough," Hunter told the Indianapolis Star. "When they told me before the game we already had 100,000, honestly, I almost broke down in tears."

Travelers using long-distance buses are being warned to take extra caution after Swedish police said cases of thieves using midgets in robbing long-distance coaches is on the rise.

Police said the thieves are able to steal from the unsuspecting bus passengers by sneaking the dwarves into the luggage holds in sports bags and once they are inside, the midgets out from the bags and sift through the luggage of the train passengers.

A $392,000 luxury coach designed for Dracula sightseeing tours might never get to be used for its purposes after it was found out to be too big to get enter the city gates.

Officials in the City of Brasov were too embarrassed after constructing the doubledecker coach much higher than 10-foot high medieval gates at the old center of of the city.

Some avid fans of the Buckeyes have turned emotional after the team lost to the LSU resulting in police arrests in the Ohio State campus. The Police said some 15 people were held in custody for attempted arson and misbehavior after the game.

Police spokeswoman Amanda Ford said Tuesday that between 10 and 12 fires were reported as some trash bins were found to be set on fire. Loyal Buckeye fans could not help but be somber for the team's defeat for the second straight year edge at the title.