BURLINGTON, NC An entire soccer field IN Burlington, North Carolina was scorched Sunday afternoon from a grass fire set by model rockets. Captain Blair Keck of the Burlington Fire Department said the call came in at 1:18 p.m. and it took the 12 personnel about 20 minutes to get the fire at 3715 Rural [.

LONDON, England Holy Mount Zion of England's all-Jewish Maccabi Southern Football League has been suspended for league play after allegations were made that the team was using non-Jewish players. According to England's The Jewish Chronicle, the team has been under suspicion for using non-Jewish players after complaints had been made to the league by [.

NUREMBERG, Germany Barbie dolls modelled on German national women's soccer coach Silvia Neid (L) and German national Birgit Prinz and a Barbie foosball table are presented on the occasion of the 50th birthday of toy company Mattel at the Toy Fair in Nuremberg, Germany.

WARSAW, Poland — Polish second division stragglers Warta Poznan may have found a secret weapon as they battle to avoid the drop: a former Playboy cover star. Izabela Lukomska-Pyzalska, 33, has been named club chair and is pledging to run a tight ship to try to save Warta from relegation. Lukomska-Pyzalska told the rolling news [.

HAMBURG, Germany — Top German football club St Pauli has shown the red card to strippers performing inside a corporate box owned by one of Hamburg's many lap dance clubs but they can dance once matches are over. The Susis Show Bar on Hamburg's main red-light drag, the Reeperbahn, has installed a large mirror [.

LONDON, England English Premier League star Jermaine Pennant — once Britain's most expensive teenage soccer player — forgot he owned a Porsche, leaving the luxury car at a train station for six months, it emerged Wednesday. On the same day "Britain's brainiest footballer," Burnley defender Clarke Carlisle, announced he had been selected as a [.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil A Brazilian footballer who faked his own kidnapping to get out of a team training session faces up to six months in prison, according to police. Somalia, a player for the Rio club Botafogo, made a police report Wednesday alleging he had been carjacked by an armed man and forced [.

LONDON, England — Soccer clubs have enough trouble keeping their players in line. Now they must contend with disruptive mascots. An English league match was briefly delayed Monday by a mascot staging a sit-down protest in support of a feathered rival, Sky Sports reported. Preston's Deepdale Duck caused a flap on Saturday by reportedly trying [.