"sport" news and stories

When the school year starts back up, sports fans can look foward to a new season of college football. In addition to cheering on their team at games, fans of the Ohio State Buckeyes will get a new way to show their spirit: Buckeye HerOes cereal, the breakfast cereal with OSU current and former players on the box. The honey-nut-toasted-oat cereal sounds exactly like similar to a well-known national brand, so it probably won't take much for fans to hand over the $3.49 at Kroger stores for a box. OSU is not the first university to do a cereal promotion, but their 75,000 box run of product is the largest to-date and the manufacturer says that more will be produced if the initial fun sells out, with a production run once or twice a year.

OSU's next branded product is expected to be single-serving milk cartons.

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One of the fun things about bundt pans is that they come in so many different shapes - far more than an ordinary cake pan. The problem with this is that you can end up with too many pans, some of which are only really appropriate for certain occasions and the Holiday Tree bundt is a prime example of this. The Stadium Pan does not have this problem, even though it does have an undeniably unique shape, since there are sporting events running all year long. All you need to do is make sure the icing colors match the team that you're supporting before the match, and you can root for your favorite team while you and your friends chow down.

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As the number of teams in the World Cup narrows, the anticipation to see who will win is growing, as is the desire of the players to win the World Cup for their country. If you're not on one of the advancing teams (and odds are good that you're not if you have the time to read this right now), the only way you're going to get your hands on a World Cup is if you buy a chocolate one. Shown with the creator/chocolatier, the chocolate World Cup is made of both milk and dark chocolates and weighs more than 5kg. It is hand-sculpted and covered in edible gold dust for an authentic and tasty look.

The base price for the trophy is £75, but that only includes shipping within the UK. If you're in Europe, the cost with shipping will be £100, and a whopping £125 ($227) to the US.

At least it's less expensive than the real thing!

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A masters student at UC Berkeley, Mike Wooldridge, started thinking about the relatively young "sport" of competitive eating and noticed that there were many records, but no way to compare performance results across food groups. He set out to see if he could normalize, or standardize, the results from all types of eating contests and make it possible to compare the performance of the eaters across different foods.

Mike analyzed 23 records and converted them into a rate of ingestion (ROI), resulting in a kilograms per minute value for every food.

The blue bars are the average ROI of given foods (easier foods have higher bars) and the yellow bars are the eaters' records. The big spikes are some of world champion eater Takeru Kobayashi's records, but you can see that, because the rest of the yellow bars are approximately equal, the eaters mostly perform up to the same standards, despite the food involved in the challenge.

[via Trencherwomen]

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Sonya Thomas, a.k.a. "the Black Widow," has just set a new record in her chosen sport of competitive eating. Yesterday, at a competition during the 16th Annual Virginia State Harley Davidson Owners Group Rally, Thomas ate 60 ham biscuits in 8 minutes, beating out 11 other competitors.

A ham biscuit is a simple, popular Southern snack that consists of a fluffy biscuit, split in half, and filled with ham and butter. The biscuits used in the competition look more like hamburger buns than real Southern biscuits, but that might have made them easier to eat, since the "gurgitators" dunk them in water to soften them up and make chewing easier.

Sonya has another trick to help her get the food down, which is hopping up and down during the final moments of the competition. You can read her account on her website.

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