How the board game Monopoly helped WWII prisoners escape

This is a really cool story:

During World War II, as the number of British airmen held hostage behind enemy lines escalated, the country's secret service enlisted an unlikely partner in the ongoing war effort: The board game Monopoly.

It was the perfect accomplice.

Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute in care packages to imprisoned soldiers, the game was too innocent to raise suspicion. But it was the ideal size for a top-secret escape kit that could help spring British POWs from German war camps.

University Minnesota cracking down on drunken, rowdy football fans

If you get kicked out of a Minnesota Golden Gophers football game after being drunk and rowdy then you have to pass a breathalyzer test to get into the next game.

But that's not the part I want to concentrate on this story, but rather the... odd phrasing the Associated Press uses.

It is aimed primarily at fans who get blitzed at tailgate parties before entering the Golden Gophers' brand-new TCF Bank Stadium. The sale and possession of alcohol are banned at the 50,000-seat stadium, unlike the team's former home, the Metrodome, which is off campus and not owned by the school.

The slang, "fans who get blitzed" isn't something that you expect to see in an Associated Press story. It seems something more suited for Deadspin than the Associated Press.

Oh, and this quote from a Minnesota fan is hilarious:

Patrick Day, a junior who skipped tailgating at the home opener last Saturday to get in line for a good seat in the unreserved student section, said: "I think if you're terrible and puking, then are you really enjoying the game? I've been puked on before. You know, that's just not necessary."

Terrible? OK. Puking? OK. But terrible AND puking? Not OK.

Also, I've been a a few sporting events and I have never been thrown up on.