The Rocket Racing League plans to pair off high-powered rocket planes in a high-speed, 3-D chase through the skies--think NASCAR meets Star Wars.

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In league with the rocket is the 17-foot hideous-yet-endearing troll under the Aurora Bridge, as is the raucous Summer Solstice Parade in all its stilted, puppet bearing, naked cyclist glory that drums to the beat of its own whacked-out marching band.

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It is that kind of attitude that has seen Histon rocket up the non-league pyramid since Fallon first led them into the Southern League with three promotions in the last four years now making them a Blue Square Premier team.

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By scoring 22 times in the last 21 regular-season games, Ovechkin ended up leading the league with 32 goals in a lockout-shortened schedule his third Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy, but first since 2009.

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