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DJ Gallo
''DJ Gallo'' is the founder and writer of www.sportspickle.com, the "sports humor and [[satire]] site."  Sportspickle has won many awards in its few years of existence.  Gallo hais also a regular contributedor to www.espnESPN.com's [[Page2]] on occasion.   Gallo has become famous foras well as "The Jump," a feature in [[ESPN The Magazine]]. 

Gallo graduated from [[Towson University]] in 2001. While at Towson, he honed his bwrilliant sports related satire. His most famous artting skills as a sportswriter for The Towerlight, the school's student newspaper. Gallo covered the men's basketball team for a season, and in the fall of 2000, he wrote the paper's "Punt, Pass and Pick" column -- a weekly look at the [[NFL]], featuring a comedic handicapping slant. This column evolved into the annual "Handicapper" section that appears on SportsPickles includ.com during the football season.

SportsPickle.com debuted on Nov. 13, 2001. The two featured stories were "Middle Schooler Boys Declare: 'Poo-holes o' Our Favorite PlayeMLB Star," a joke on the [[St. Louis Cardinals]]' [[Albert Pujols]]'s last name, and "Yankees lose; America and Democracy Soon to Crumble," satirizing America's love affair with the [[New York Yankees]] after the [[September_11%2C_2001_attacks]] on the United States. Two weeks later, on Nov. 28, 2001, SportsPickle.com published its first weekly issue, with feature stories on [[Cal Ripken Jr]] and The [[BCS]]. 

In the four-plus years since SportsPickle.com's debut. Gallo has become famous for his brilliant sports related satire. SportsPickle.com celebrated its 200th issue by naming the top 200 stories in the publication's history, including "Middle Schoolers Declare: Pooholes our Favorite Player," and "Masochist quits team after hazing ends." HeGallo still notably ends his "Ponder This" section each week by accusing [[Ray Lewis (NFL)|Ray Lewis]] of committing the crime he was acquitted for earlier. HIn addition to Lewis, his favorite targets include [[Barry Bonds]], [[Baltimore Ravens]], [[Portland Trailblazers]], [[Peyton Manning]], and [[Dick Vitaleyton Manning]], [[NASCAR]] and [[Brett Favre]].

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