All day I’ve been receiving reports from my readers about the ongoing Papa John’s $.23 pizza promotion in the Cleveland area. Many are expressing frustration with busy phones and extremely long lines. Newsnet5 reports that the stores will close early if they run out of supplies. They also write:
Some customers are waiting as long as [...]

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It looks like the fervor over the Papa John’s “Crybaby” t-shirts has reached both Craigs List and ebay.

There appear to be at least 3 postings on the Washington, DC craigslist site requesting one of the shirts if anyone has one they are willing to sell.  Additionally, there appear to be one or two dozen shirts [...]

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The Washington Examiner has an article today called “A King’s Feast” talking about the role So Good played in breaking the “Crybaby” t-shirt story. Below are a few excerpts from the original article:

Here’s how the story unfolded — and it might not have gone anywhere if not for local blogger Jon Eick of sogoodblog.com — [...]

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The segment from WJW Fox 8 about the “Crybaby” t-shirt incident has been posted online. It provides a good overview of the whole story. It features some coverage of So Good breaking the story, and they used two segements from my phone interview with them. Unlike the story I was cited in by the Cleveland [...]

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Behind the Lens is reporting that the Fox 8 segment I was interviewed for just aired. As part of the segment, they announced that Papa John’s has issued a formal apology for the “Crybaby” T-shirt situation.

Behind the Lens writes:
They are donating $10,000 to the Cavaliers Youth Fund, and this Thursday all PJ’s Cleveland locations will [...]

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The following comment was left on my original post about the Papa John’s “Crybaby” t-shirt incident. It came from a Papa John’s corporate e-mail address and may be an early indication of how the corporate office is reacting. It confirms what we’ve been hearing about these shirts being sponsored by “rogue” franchise owners in DC [...]

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For those of you just starting to follow this story, to get some background you can read my original post and follow-up coverage about the “Crybaby” t-shirts that were at the Wizards-Cavs Game 6 and featured a Papa John’s logo on them.
One quick note for those of you contacting me for information related to a [...]

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My previous post, reporting on shirts sponsored by Papa John’s declaring Lebron James a “Crybaby”, had become cluttered with so many updates, I decided to summarize them in a new post. Since I first posted the story a little less than 24 hours ago, the news has really taken off, with coverage from the [...]

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Update: I have received word that Papa John’s has formally apologized for the incident. Click over to So Good’s front page to read about the apology and other updates on the story from the past 24 hours. My original post about the “Crybaby” T-shirts appears below:
Earlier tonight I attended the Washington Wizards and Cleveland [...]

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Screwballs, a baseball blog over at Fox Sports, has posted a recap of, and pictures from, the Red Sox-Dodgers game held at L.A. Coliseum. The crowd of 115,300 may be a world record for the most people in attendance ever at a baseball game. But what jumped out at me from the posting [...]

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Saturday night I attended the first game ever played at Nationals Park (an exhibition against the Orioles). Then, last night, I returned for the official Opening Night game against the Atlanta Braves, which was shown on ESPN. You can read my thoughts on the new ballpark as a whole in a guest post over [...]

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Breaking news just coming in over the “wire”, and of course by “wire”, I mean DCist and Raw Fisher. What’s the breaking news? My beloved Washington Nationals have announced the local food vendors who will have stands at their new stadium. The biggest name on the list, DC institution Ben’s Chili Bowl:

For those of [...]

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