Sports Grid’s tendency to take videos from places and put their logo in the corner has finally come in handy, as the PGA has been on a rights and violations kick and this is the only place on the Internet to see video of a guy running onto the seventh green at CordeValle and throwing a hot dog at Tiger Woods. Yes, this is a thing that happened.

Conflicting reports abound — he was drunk, he wasn’t drunk, he threw the hot dog, he just lost control of the hot dog because he was crazy and running — and the entire thing has a real Zapruder feel about it. Obvious jokes about Tiger Woods and wieners aside, it also gives the comments section of every sports blog in the world a chance to argue about what should and should not be on a hot dog. I usually go the mustard, relish and onions route, but my hot dogs are made out of soy beans, so what the hell do I know? I just think it’s hilarious that a golfer had a hot dog thrown at them at something called the “Frys.com Open”. Somebody should throw a milkshake at him.

The best part is that the story gives me a chance to reuse one of my favorite sports clips of all time:

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Yesterday, my Uproxxian colleague, DangerGuerrero, brought us the results of the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Championship, but today the news is about controversy. As you can see in the video below, American hero Joey Chestnut won the official competition by housing 62 dogs in 10 minutes. Alas, as is always the story with Major League Eating, there is a great deal of controversy. Former champion and current MLE outcast Takeru Kobayashi was unable to compete head-to-head with Chestnut because he has been banned from MLE events for refusing to sign an exclusive contract. So instead of sitting in exile and eating food like a normal person, Kobayashi held his own Nathan’s Hot Dog satellite event from a rooftop in Manhattan. According to Kobayashi and his video evidence, he not only beat Chestnut’s 62 dogs, but he broke the world record by eating 69 weiners in 10 minutes. Better luck next year, your sister.

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One of America’s more subtle and nuanced July 4th traditions is the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest held every year at Coney Island, where competitors jam as many wieners into their mouths as they can in ten minutes in front of a screaming crowd. [Joke about one of the reader's female relatives here.] BOOMROASTEDORSOMETHING. Anyway, this year the event was again won by American Joey Chestnut, his fifth consecutive victory. Chestnut ate 62 hot dogs during the ten minute time period, holding off challenger Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti, but falling short of his world record of 68.

At this point, let’s take half a step back and think about something. Sixty-two hot dogs. Sixty-two. In ten minutes. Holy moly.

To give you an idea how many hot dogs that is, I’d like to tell you a story. A couple times a year, my precious Philadelphia Phillies will hold a “Dollar Dog” night, where hot dogs cost $1 throughout the game. Back when I was in college, some friends and I thought it would be awesome to try to eat one per inning, for a total of nine (9) hot dogs. I made it to the 6th inning and promptly threw up everywhere. (One of my friends, who weighed over 300 lbs at the time, got through all nine and then threw up on the way home.) And while I’ve never been the biggest eater in the world, that still means I couldn’t get 10% of the way to the record in 12x the time. That’s ridiculous.

In conclusion, I bet Joey Chestnut poops like a dinosaur.

In case you haven’t been reading With Leather very closely over the last week (and hey, it happens), we’ve been doing another fantasy baseball promotion with DraftStreet.com, mostly so I could avenge my 50th-something place finish in the first game. Well, thanks to David Price and my slavish devotion to the Cleveland Indians, I finished a whopping 134th overall. No, seriously. I could’ve selected players based on how handsome I think they are and finished better. I could’ve picked players whose names start with G. It wouldn’t have mattered.

Here are your top five finishers:

1. gperih – 76.2 points
2. JM80 – 65.45 points
3. Daern – 63.7 points
4. Bnelson2 – 63.5 points
5. Kid Kash & Dash – 62.55 points
134. bthompsonstroud -21.05 points

Humiliating. Funny enough, 134th is only two spots higher than the Indians finished last year. Here are some links. Blerg.

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UFC 130 Gif Party - Since I only seem to cover fight sports where the people don’t really hit each other, here’s a bunch of gifs from UFC 130 courtesy of our friends at Cage Potato, and yeah, they are pretty much straight up hitting each other. I think one guy gets his face bashed in with a fire extinguisher. [Cage Potato]

This Epic Hurdle Fail Is Painful to Watch - I don’t think there’s a faster way to get someone to click a link than the words “epic hurdle fail.” Is there a non-epic type of hurdle fail? The saddest part of this video is that she was doing so well. I know what it’s like, lady, this happens to me every time I use the Power Pad. [BroBible]

Me, on Twitter - Last night I twote a Tweet about Basketball Wives. This is the kind of thing you should be following. [Twitter]

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