Wanted: the nastiest, most offensive-smelling kids’ sneakers in Denver. Such over-ripe stink bombs might be a plague to parents, but they could win the Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest, which stomps ...

A 12-year-old girl took home a dubious honor from New York - the National Rotten Sneaker Contest winner. Seven finalists gathered at the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum in Times Square for Odor ...

MONTPELIER (AP) An 11-year-old girl will be leaving Vermont as the 2010 "Rotten Sneaker" champion of the United States. Trinette Robinson of Bristol, Conn., was crowned Tuesday in Montpelier at The ...

DALTON — The air around four of the town's parks last night was heavy with the aroma of raunchy sneakers as local youngsters gathered to see whose were the worst. This, the first of what will be an ...

They've worn their sneakers while mowing the lawn. They've left them outside in the rain, and they've dragged them through the mud. And on Tuesday, contestants from as far away as Alaska attempted to ...

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It's sad when a child's stinky feet can win cash. Noah Nielsen, 10, recently beat out six other contestants from around the country in the 30th annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest in ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Daegan Goodman may have had the shortest distance to travel to the rotten sneaker contest, but you couldn't tell that by smelling his shoes. The 10-year-old from Montpelier ...

MONTPELIER — Think your ratty old Converse high-tops are bad? There’s a contest for that. Eight young people from age 9 to 13 are competing to see who’s got the worst old sneakers in a contest in ...