Moments after Dustin Long won the Shotgun Grid Competition in the ESPN Great Outdoor Games a challenge was made.

Mark Malone, ESPN Great Outdoor Games host, was getting ready to shoot a video segment for the upcoming shows on ESPN and ESPN2. While Malone was getting ready, an official of the shotgun game said "Malone's getting ready to shoot, and wants to challenge you to a match. You put up your gold medal and he'll put up his first signing bonus with the Pittsburgh Steelers."

Long didn't even think. "No way," he said. But after a moment, he changed his mind and agreed.

The challenge, though, was a farce, although it might have been an interesting match. During the filming of the segment, Malone broke the targets with a relative ease.

When told of the challenge, Malone laughed. "That gold medal will be worth more some day than any of my bonuses."

For the record, Malone said his first signing bonus was "less that $100,000."

My baby's been hit!… Shortly after Randy Ulmer released an arrow in the archery competition Saturday, ESPN cameraman Jim Mundell left his position behind the shooters and ran toward the target. As he ran by public address announcer Tom "Brodie" Broderick, Mundell muttered, "He got me." Broderick smiled and said over his microphone, "You see that guy running. His baby's been hit."

Mundell's baby is a remote-controlled camera lens placed below the target at station No. 4, which is also known as "Thread the Needle." It features a 45-yard target almost obscured by a forest of obstructions. Ulmer's arrow nicked one of the obstructions and glanced into the lens.

Mundell was viewing a monitor hooked to that lens and saw the arrow hit, which is sort of a shocking experience in itself, seeing an arrow head straight toward the screen of your television monitor. Then Mundell saw the picture dip and he knew what happened. After sprinting to the camera lens, he found it had narrowly escaped damage.

"The arrow hit about a quarter-inch away from the lens," Mundell said. "It actually hit the lens shade."

Broderick told the audience the camera and lens were valued at $70,000. Actually, this lens cost "only" $12,000 to $15,000, according to Mundell.

Obviously, that's still enough value to qualify for "baby" status. And this baby turned out to be bruised but not broken.

Peter T. meets another challenge… At 6-foot-2, 310 pounds, it's not suprising that Peter Thliveros can put away some groceries. Winning his second consecutive Great Outdoor Games Bass Tournament wasn't the only challenge Peter T. met this week in Lake Placid. On Thursday night, Thliveros took his family to dinner at the Great Adirondack Steak and Seafood House. He noticed a 46-ounce steak on the menu, with a challenge beside it. If you ate all 46 ounces, the steak was free. Otherwise, it cost $46.

"I didn't want to pay $46," Thliveros said. "I got a t-shirt that says I ate it all."

But the big bass angler paid a price for his beef-eating orgy.

"It's almost like when you drink a little too much," Thliveros said. "I got a little bit woozy from eating that much meat."