In .us at least, at this time of year Fantasy Sports are a pretty hot topic around the office... Great opportunity to note that CBS Sportsline's Fantasy App uses mod_perl. (This may have been cited in another post...)
This article has some details

"Apache is the industry-leading Web server, 
and when coupled with the embedded mod_perl 
interpreter, we can achieve the high performance 
our applications need with quick development 
times that the Perl programming language provides."
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Now THAT's sexy! :)