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SALT LAKE CITY — Three more zany stories from the sports world in today’s From Left Field.

Bees play golf

Most run-ins with bees on a golf course end unpleasantly. However, the bees in a recent science test are rather talented at the game.

According to New Scientist, researchers at the Queen Mary University of London found a way to teach the game to bees as a way to see how complex of thinkers they are.

“They built a circular platform with a small hole in the center filled with sugar solution, into which bees had to move a ball to get a reward. A researcher showed them how to do this by using a plastic bee on a stick to push the ball,” wrote New Scientist’s Sam Wong.

The bees eventually learned how to complete this task on their own.

No, these bees aren’t teeing off from the green, but they do have quite an impressive short game.

Northwestern player pauses to tie shoe mid-game, gets scored on

There’s really no good time to tie your shoe while a basketball game is in play. It’s probably even more difficult when you’re bringing the basketball up the court.

And Northwestern women’s basketball senior guard Ashley Deary learned Thursday that it’s probably best to wait until a break in the action to tie her shoe.

In the Wildcats’ game vs. Rutgers, Deary stopped to tie her shoe while she brought the ball up the court. And she paid the price for that decision.

Luckily for Deary, she could laugh it off in the end because Northwestern won easily 60-38. The senior ended up with 5 points, eight assists and three steals.

Report: Basketball player breaks teammate's jaw in locker room fight

Five players from Maine’s men’s basketball team were suspended after a fight in the team's locker room on Feb. 14 that ended in a basketball player breaking his jaw.

According to the Bangor Daily News, a fight broke out about music that was being played in the locker room. It ended with the team’s leading scorer punching a teammate and breaking his jaw, the newspaper said, citing a police report. Both players had thrown punches in the fight.

Three other players were suspended for a week because they had initially told coaches that the player who broke his jaw, Marko Pirovic, had fallen in the shower.

Pirovic told police he did not want to press charges. The school is still investigating the incident, however.

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