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'''DJ Gallo''' is the founder and writer of SportsPickle, a sports humor and [[satire]] site.  

SportsPickle has won many awards in its few years of existence{{Fact|date=February 2007}}. Gallo is also a regular contributor to ESPN.com's [[Page2]] as well as "The AM Jump," a feature in [[ESPN The Magazine]].  Gallo graduated from [[Towson University]] in 2001. While at Towson, he honed his writing 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 SportsPickle.com during the football season.

SportsPickle debuted on Nov. 13, 2001. The two featured stories were "Middle School Boys Declare: 'Poo-holes' Our Favorite MLB 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, 2001 attacks]] on the United States. Two weeks later, on Nov. 28, 2001, SportsPickle published its first weekly issue, with feature stories on [[Cal Ripken Jr]] and The [[BCS]]. Another famous article is his mock of Alex Rodríguez critics for him not hitting in the clutch. In the article he makes fun of how A-Rod only had one RBI per game one week.

In the four-plus years since SportsPickle's debut. Gallo has become famous for his sports-related satire. SportsPickle 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." Gallo 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. In addition to Lewis, his favorite targets include [[Barry Bonds]], [[Baltimore Ravens]],  [[Cincinnati Bengals]], [[NASCAR]], [[Phil Mickelson]], [[Peyton Manning]], [[Eli Manning]], [[Brett Favre]], [[Charlie Weis]], [[Chris Henry]],the late [[Barbaro]] and [[Michelle Wie]].

==External links==
*http://www.sportspickle.com

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