Light Stuff: Hot Dogs, Pete Carroll on Country Music, Roughing Up Tiki Barker and Maradona
July 1st, 2010 by cstarkTakeru Kobayashi moved to New York in March to train for this week’s July 4th hot dog-eating contest on Coney Island. I’m not kidding. Check out the Associated Press report. Kobayashi’s the rail-thin dude who breaks the hog dog in half before stuffing both halves in his mouth and he chases them down with water. He’ll knock down 60 dogs in 12 minutes. It’s pretty gross, really.
I’m not trying to pile on Tiki Barber’s troubles, but Jeff Pearlman drops some really funny Pearls of Wisdom in this piece on the former New York Giants’ running back who has hit bottom after cheating on his wife, who was eight months pregnant at the time.
Diego Maradona, soccer’s version of Ozzie Guillen on steroids, has had his moments during the World Cup. In fact, here’s 10 of his craziest antics, as put together by goal.com. It could have been 100 of his craziest moments.
And Jim Moore of the Seattle P-I put together some pretty good lines in this Q&A with Seahawks’ coach Pete Carroll, which is really pretty revealing. Consider this exchange:
What about country music?
Carroll: “I don’t listen to country at all. I don’t like it. I never turn it on, I only turn it off.”
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve grown to like country music.
Carroll: “I guess I’m not feeling as old as you then.”
Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group
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