Cherry pits, crickets, dung go flying toward the record books. July 6, 2013— -- intro: Watch your step: A saliva-coated cherry pit might be underfoot. That's because contestants are lining up ...

Ronn Matt’s wife encouraged him to enter the annual International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship in southwestern Michigan on Saturday. It’s a good thing she did. The 46-year-old Chicagoan pulled a ...

Michael Breazeale, The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Mich. July 7, 2023 at 8:35 AM Jul. 7—TRAVERSE CITY — Tonight is the last chance to participate in the National Cherry Festival's classic adult ...

CROWN POINT | Family, tradition and sportsmanship played key roles in the Bean Spitting Contest during The Times Day at the 160th Lake County Fair on Saturday morning – along with a lot of saliva. The ...

The Indiana State Fair is known for its competitions—from the 4-H Best in Show to a competition for the best alpaca costume—but the Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest is no ordinary competition. In the ...

For the first time, the Marion County Fair held a watermelon seed spitting contest. Danny Weston won first place. The seed traveled 27 feet. Louis Iverson came in second, spitting the seed more than ...

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. — The annual Cherry Picker’s & Pit Spit event is being hosted by Green Bluff Grange on July 18. The event includes a 4-mile run through the cherry orchards, a cherry pit spitting ...

POTTER COUNTY, Pa. — Many unique events happen this time of year. In Potter County, one festival includes frog jumping races and a log rolling competition, and in the 1980s, there was also a tobacco ...

(AP) Matt “BB Gun” Krause won his first-ever International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship on Saturday, returning the crown to a family that has dominated the annual competition in southwestern ...

I've long said that baseball's All-Star weekend could use some updating to add a little extra pizzazz, especially the boring and mundane Home Run Derby. Fortunately, there actually is someone who ...