Reader Andrea B. updates us on one of my favorite sports stories of last year, which is also of interest to fans of headline writing. Andrea sent in a link to the Yahoo-AP story, Woman Hit by Bat in Sausage Race Retiring, but I am linking to the Fox Sports story, Woman Involved in Sausage-gate Retiring, which is exactly the same but includes two photos rather than one. But there are more headline options than just those two to pick from, though the stories are all from the AP text:

Her Sausage Racing Days Over (Chicago Tribune), Once Peppered, Sausage Spices up Life With College (USA Today), Analyze This: Woman Quits While She Was a Wiener (Kansas City Star), A Banged-up Sausage Quits (International Herald Tribune), Here on Out, Sausage Link to Be Missing (Rocky Mountain News), She’s Now a Missing Link (Philadelphia Daily News), Wisconsin’s Famous Italian Sausage Heading to School (Rockdale Citizen), Brewers' Fan Favorite Costumed Sausage Bids Farewell (Daytona Beach News-Journal), ‘Sausage-gate’ Victim To Retire (CNN International), Woman in Sausage Costume Packs It In (Newsday), Say It Ain’t So: Block Retires As Brewer’s Sausage (The Capital Times), Attacked Sausage Calls It Quits (The Herald News), ‘Sausage’ Woman Retiring From Racing (Wilkes Barre Times-Leader)

For background, I provide four stories from last year for reference, the original report, the sausage's side of the story, a follow-up featuring racing pierogis, and an item about the sausage swimming with dolphins which I had previously been unaware of. And while this all seems like a bunch of light-hearted silliness, please keep in mind that "Veronica Chandler, the hot dog who tripped over Block's fallen sausage, never ran again."