Tickets for Beat the Champs have gone on sale! Tix are only $10 apiece, and the winners will walk with $300. Of course, you have an opportunity to earn extra points in the weeks leading up to the event by completing a number of physical challenges. There will be more physical challenges posted in the coming weeks. Rumors of Johnny rapping at this event continue to persist, despite the fact that he has flatly denied those accusations.

Alright gang, here’s the deal. Beat the Champs will take place on Sunday, August 28th at World Cafe Live, as YOU and your team will try to dislodge The Champs and try to take $300 in cold hard cash from them in the process. Tickets will go on sale next Tuesday, but you can get started now. Here’s how it’s going to work: your team can earn points that will go toward your score at Beat the Champs by completing a number of physical challenges. You may earn up to a total of ten points, meaning that if you do, you will have a ten point lead over the Champs when the questions start flying on August 28th. You have to prove that you have completed your physical challenges by August 21st. Below are the initial challenges. There will be more as the contest continues. All photos and links to craigslist posting must be sent to beatthechamps@yahoo.com. All tickets must be purchased today or later (I’m not gonna take a ticket to Lucy from 2002.) Good Luck!!!

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I am having some severe technical difficulties. As soon as it gets cleared up, I will resume posting this week’s stories. Sorry for the delay.

They are the most reviled team in quizzo, perhaps the most hated in the history of the sport. They aren’t even regulars, just a group of guys who tend to show up when there’s money on the line. They make disparaging comments about the other teams and carry themselves with a smugness that borders on conceit. One of them even accepted the loss of points during quizzo one time so he could play with his collar up! And the sick thing about it is: They can back it up. They won Quizzo Bowl, and were well on their way to winning Doc Watson’s Big $$$ Bonanza when Doc Watson’s ran out of Big $$$. They have only lost twice during regular quizzo events, and told me after each loss that it was a “fluke”. But you will have a chance to knock them off their high horse on one of the grandest stages in the city. On August 28th, 2005, you will have a chance to Beat the Champs at the World Cafe Live. And here’s the thing: they’re so confident that they will win that they told me to give the other teams points, because they’ll get bored if they don’t have a handicap. Of course, I don’t just give away points. You will have to earn them. And so, next week, I will reveal what physical challenges you will have to undertake to acquire points in your quest to Beat the Champs.

Remember when I told you that there was a petition out there encouraging Bruce Springsteen to come to Philly? Well, Jam Master Sean has started one to keep Bruce away. It really seems to be gathering steam.

You wanna see Def Leppard, but you want it in an intimate setting, without 1,000,000 people nearby? Well, they’re gonna be playing tonight at Campbell’s Field in Camden with…are you ready for this…Bryan Adams! This one’s gonna cut like a knife!

…you get an email from your friend the Johnny Cash impersonator who is doing a concert to benefit the search for Natalee Holloway. I got this email recently from the Man in Black:

Where is she? Let me get this straight … Aruba calls out the police, special crime unit, the Dutch Marines, and thousands of volunteer searchers– and 4 weeks later there is still no trace of Natalie Holloway? The son of an influential local
judge knows what happened to her, but won’t say? Our government can only do so much due to diplomatic policy? BALONEY!!

That’s what a private organization in Alabama says, and they’ve mounted a costly private expedition to find her. They need support.

MAN IN BLACK:
The Concert To Find Natalee

Wednesday, July 6th
10:00 PM
Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom St.
Philadelphia, PA

Here’s an article about birthday boy Pat Morita! And here is a pretty good audio interview with him (you gotta listen to the “Happy Days” theme song before it starts.) It’s really interesting!

Join Johnny after quizzo on Wednesday as he goes to see former BTNJGT contestant Edge (aka Privilege) perform at the Five Spot. No, not quizzo. It’ll be that hip-hop music all the kids are listening to. The show begins at 10 p.m. Tix are $5, and domestic beers are only $2. Imports and highballs are $3. Also on the bill are the Catastrophics. Hope to see you there.

On June 21, 1877 ten irishmen were hung in what is now Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. What were these men known as?