The yellow ribbon ended up becoming ubiquitous during the Iranian hostage crisis.

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Lock Bakkies Botha ended a move which should have finished with an All Blacks try with an illegal tackle on Cowan from an offisde position, becoming the third player to see yellow.

BBC: South Africa 31-19 New Zealand

Torres's night of frustration etched up a notch when he was booked for a poor tackle on Boyce, with Gerrard becoming the fifth Liverpool to be yellow carded for an equally poor challenge on McCarthy.

BBC: Wigan 1-0 Liverpool

At once a soap opera and an anti-soap, the show was an assault on a TV-addled audience, with its heroine becoming as alarmed by the waxy yellow buildup on her kitchen floor as she was by the revelation that her grandfather was the notorious Fernwood flasher.

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Danica Patrick, the first woman to win the pole position at the Daytona 500, led three times, including five laps under green -- also becoming the first woman to lead a lap at the race not under a yellow flag caution.

CNN: February 24, 2013 -- Updated 2355 GMT (0755 HKT)