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It's Brian Lera on WNYC, and we're going to wrap up the show today for our last few minutes by talking sports.

But wait, not the ones you're used to hearing about. This is a call

in on your favorite lesser known sport, especially you're a lesser known sport that other people

might consider strange or exotic or weird. Who plays one or who follows one? 212-433, WNYC,

212-433-9692. You know, March Madness is over, baseball season is planted now and underway.

So let's give them a break and just give a brief spotlight to your favorite, strange or lesser-known sports.

Who's got one you think other people might enjoy hearing about 212-433 WNYC? Here's an example. Catapulting. What? Yes, Gothamist's Hannah Frischberg,

recently covered a yearly competition in Brooklyn dedicated to building catapults, or as they would prefer you to say, and I don't even

know how to pronounce the spelling, but I think it's trebushes. Participants will gather on April 27th for

the quote, Great Trebulation in the Green Central Knoll, that's Park and Bushwick. Teams compete to see

whose catapult can launch

a lint chocolate truffle the furthest. So you get the idea. Another sport that may seem strange to many,

but completely normal to someone from the Netherlands, is corf ball, K-O-R-F ball, almost exclusively

played in the Dutch-speaking world.

Corf ball is similar to basketball, but the net doesn't have a backboard, and men and women play

on the same team.

So if you have a niche sport of any kind that you play or follow, call or text us 212-433, W- 212 433 96692 one more as a model getting lost might seem like something you

would want to avoid right but if you want to try your hand at orienteering, that's how you get started. In orientering,

you have to run from point to point, but you don't know where you started. And you also don't

know where you're going. All you have is a compass and a map to try to finish the course. So any

orienteers out there, corf ball, Orientiering, Catapulting,

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