Fanhouse Backporch: In the competitive eating equivalent of Peyton Manning saying he'd skip the Super Bowl or Tim Duncan saying he might not show up to the NBA Finals, a report today suggests that...
Posted: June 13, 2007 3:08 PM
Fanhouse Backporch: Did any major American corporations have sponsorship contracts with the 1980 Soviet hockey team? No? Well then why is Coors running this commercial? Look, I have the utmost...
Posted: July 11, 2007 6:35 AM
Fanhouse Backporch: Nothing like an unlimited supply of hot dogs to give Rex Ryan even more motivation to win this weekend. Via Deadspin, the fine folks at Nathan's Famous have decreed that if the...
Posted: January 22, 2010 4:00 PM
Fanhouse MLB Blog: I've always had a certain affinity for Kauffman Stadium. Love -- absolutely love -- the waterfall-and-fountain combo beyond the outfield wall. I'm also a big fan of the huge...
Posted: May 21, 2007 9:34 PM
Fanhouse Backporch: How did competitive eating become a well-known sport? We've actually reached the point in America where a Japanese hot dog eater is a household name, and an American breaking...
Posted: June 3, 2007 4:23 PM
Fanhouse NFL Blog: American Joey Chestnut retained his world hot dog eating title today, beating Japan's Takeru Kobayashi in the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island.Kobayashi had...
Posted: July 4, 2008 12:53 PM
Fanhouse NHL Blog: The Anaheim Ducks didn't just steal Conn Smythe winner Scott Niedermayer from the New Jersey Devils -- evidently, they also took the grand tradition of the Stanley Cup parking...
Posted: June 8, 2007 2:58 PM
Fanhouse Backporch: ESPN's announcers outdid themselves adding their own mustard to the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition. With 12 minutes of actual competition and an hour of programming to...
Posted: July 4, 2007 2:20 PM
Fanhouse NCAA Basketball Blog: Are hard fought conference tournament victories a good thing for an NCAA Tournament bound team? Which position on the court is the most important to winning a...
Posted: March 17, 2010 11:09 AM
Fanhouse Boxing Blog: People of my grandparents' generation have told me that there was actually a time in this country when boxing and horse racing were the two most popular sports. Of course,...
Posted: May 6, 2007 10:04 AM
Fanhouse Olympics Blog: WHISTLER, British Columbia (AP) -- Gasping for air, American Johnny Spillane was gliding toward the finish line, cowbells clanking in his ears, the stars and stripes...
Posted: February 14, 2010 9:30 PM
Fanhouse Backporch: We're just 24 hours away from the 2007 Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island, and American Joey Chestnut is setting his sights high. In an appearance on ESPN2's...
Posted: July 3, 2007 11:54 AM
Fanhouse Backporch: Takeru Kobayashi is the greatest athlete in the history of competitive eating, but today he couldn't hold it all in:Kobayashi was not disqualified, but he lost to Joey Chestnut...
Posted: July 4, 2007 3:22 PM
Fanhouse MLB Blog: There's no greater rivalry in sports today than that between Japanese competitive eating legend Takeru Kobayashi and the American who dethroned him at last year's Nathan's Famous...
Posted: July 4, 2008 11:53 AM
Fanhouse Backporch: Wolfing down an incredible 68 hot dogs, Joey Chestnut defeated Japan's Takeru Kobayashi at the 2009 edition of the Fourth of July Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.It was the...
Posted: July 4, 2009 1:01 PM
Fanhouse Boxing Blog: On May 22 of 1993, unbeaten, 24-year-old Roy Jones Jr. faced what, to that point, had been the biggest challenge of his life in 28-year-old Bernard Hopkins. Their clash at...
Posted: March 19, 2010 5:00 PM
Fanhouse Backporch: Oh, happy day. Takeru Kobayashi, the greatest athlete in the history of competitive eating, says he will fight through the pain in his arthritic jaw and participate in Nathan's...
Posted: June 30, 2007 1:19 PM
Fanhouse NFL Blog: The Saints' Super Bowl win on Sunday ended a grueling 43-year title drought for the franchise -- since entering the league in 1967, New Orleans had never played in a championship...
Posted: February 10, 2010 9:00 AM
Fanhouse Soccer Blog: According to a report out of England, American free agent defender Oguchi Onyewu has ended his search for a new club at ... Birmingham City? The Daily Mail is reporting the...
Posted: June 8, 2009 2:17 PM
Fanhouse Boxing Blog: Wladimir Klitschko last tasted defeat in April of 2004 when he was knocked out in the fifth-round by American Lamon Brewster of Los Angeles.Since then the 6-foot-6, 244-pound...
Posted: March 20, 2010 10:05 PM
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