Don “Moses” Lerman’s latest blog entry has an article about the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and his thoughts on that organization:

MYSELF AND OTHER JEWISH COMPETITIVE EATERS HAVE FOUGHT TO COMPETE AND MAKE CE A SPORT OVER THE YEARS , ITS SAD THAT CE IS OVERLOOKED BY THIS ORGANIZATION , WHAT SANDY KOFAX DID FOR BASEBALL I DID FOR MY SPORT (competitive eating)

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Bruce “The Hangman” Pobanz’s instructions on how to obtain a free room for the Atlanta Nathan’s qualifier are available after the jump:
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News video of Saturday’s asparagus eating contest can be viewed at http://video.nbc4.com/player/?id=96654 The contest footage is the last item in the clip and starts about 2:30 in.

(Thanks Kevin Ross) A flickr gallery of the contest is also available.

updated (From Kevin Ross) Two minutes of contest footage can be viewed on the WCNC website

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Sonya Thomas has added her thoughts on Juliet Lee and Natsuko “Gal” Sone to her home page.

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PalmBeachPost.com has an article and gallery about the sweet corn eating contest. Crazy Legs’ winning total is listed as 35.75 ears of corn. Justin Mih came in fourth.

update Sun-Sentinel.com has a longer article, but no pictures

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From AICE News:
(5 minutes, 1/4 Windmill hot dogs)

1st 6.875 Lew “The Chew” Porchazzio Colonia, NJ
2nd ? Chris “The American” Schlesinger Bohemia, NY
3rd 6.67 Carey “Powerhouse” Poehlmann Willow Grove, PA
4th 5.5 Steve “The Real Savage” Oddo Hazlett, NJ
? ? Richard “Food Tray” Brockway
? ? Kevin “The Hurls” Hurley
? ? Jess “The Best” Sheft-Ason

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Supersize Me, a documentary about Morgan Spurlock’s quest to eat only at McDonald’s for a month will be shown on MSNBC tonight at 11 PM and 3 AM eastern,

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From beautifulbrian.com home page:

Crazy Legs takes corn title from Jammin Joe 34 1/4 to 33 1/4
Simpson gets 3rd with 30 and storms out of the building

update A full writeup is now available

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Recordnet.com has an article about yesterday’s asparagus eating contest at the Stockton Asparagus Festival. Winner Joey Chestnut ate 8.6 pounds, 2.35 pounds more than last year. No other results are listed, but there are some pictures of other eaters.

update (From Kevin Ross) RecordNet blogs reports that there was an identity mixup between a local Kevin Ross and the IFOCE member with the same name.

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philly.com has a short writeup of Joey Chestnut’s appearance on the NBC game show “Identity”

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The Japan Times has an English article about competitive eating that focuses on Kobayashi. There are no quotes or other new information in the article.

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From an email:

1st – Joey Chestnut
2nd – Erik the Red
3rd – Kevin Ross

4th/5th – David Braunstein/Jason Erb (Jason wasn’t sure if he or Brickhouse
came in 4th)

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BellevueLeader.com has an article about Jason Smith, who will attempt to better his second place finish in the 2006 sweet corn contest on Sunday.

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LateNightPictures.com has some pictures of a competitor in the (London UK) All You Can Eat Breakfast Championship with two “breakfast-ettes” (Katie Downes and Malene Espensen) No results or other details are provided.

update The event was to announce the contest which will take place on May 29. Premier Travel Inns has a page about the contest. First place is 500 pounds.

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(Thanks Chip Simpson) WoodlandsOnline.com has a preview of next weekend’s Berryhill Tamale Eating contest The expected entrants in that article:

Among those already signed to challenge world-champion Chip Simpson of Harrisville, Pa., are Sonya Thomas, the 105-pound, 39-year-old Alexandria, Va., woman who is ranked Number 4 among all world competitive eaters. Returning this year will be Number 3 ranked Patrick Bertoletti of Chicago who consumed a record-shattering 48 3.5-ounce beef tamales in 2006 when he met with a tragic reversal of fortune. His loss made Simpson a winner with his 41 tamales eaten. Number 7 ranked Tim Janus is also returning.

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Joey Chestnut and Sly Stone, founder of Sly and the Family Stone, are two famous former residents of Vallejo, California. Joey Chestnut will be competing in the asparagus eating contest tomorrow and The Original Family Stone (which presumably lacks Sly Stone, but probably contains original members of his group) will be performing at the festival today.

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AICE news reports that Dave ‘US Mail’ Goldstein, who finished in 5th place in February’s Wing Bowl, will compete in the Windmill hot dogs qualifier on Sunday. If he enters that event, he will be the second eater (after Pat Bruss) to cross over to AICE after a strong performance in an IFOCE contest. Megamunch’s friend Carey Poehlmann is also expected to enter.

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japanprobe reports that the program “Dream Vision” did an episode about the science of competitive eaters. Gal Sone and Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota were given an MRI exam after eating over 100 sushi each. The body temperature after eating was also observed. Two clips from the program are available in the episode.

R Suzuki also has a blog entry about the program.

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PalmBeachPost.com reports that Joe LaRue is expected to defend his sweet corn title against Crazy Legs Conti Sunday. Three other IFOCE members are expected, but not named. There will be an amateur contest with a $100 first place prize.

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A new blog, eat2pain.blogspot.com, has been started. The founder, Todd Charles, describes the focus of the website as “everything eating and running related.” There is currently only one brief entry.

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A press release about next month’s Nathan’s qualifier in Las Vegas can be found in a myspace blog. The entrants listed in that document:

The Las Vegas qualifier, which last year witnessed the historic breaking of the 50-dog barrier by #2-ranked Joey Chestnut, appears poised to make history again. Third-ranked Pat Bertoletti has claimed that he will break the world record of 53 ¾ hot dogs and buns in Las Vegas. Bertoletti, a Chicago native, recently upset Chestnut at the St. Patrick’s Day Showdown on Spike TV, and seems to have momentum going into hot dog season. Bertoletti’s main obstacle, besides history, will be Rich “The Locust” LeFevre, the #8-ranked gurgitator in the world. A local mother and daughter team, Debi and Robyn Affentranger, will also be on hand to compete.

The contest, to be held Thursday, May 3 at 3 p.m., is an official qualifying round of the Nathan’s Famous worldwide hot dog eating circuit.

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The two videos of Gal Sone’s karaoke performances on Japanese television can be seen at hoosoo.tv:

Singing “Boys & Girls” on Monomane Battle in a gold cowboy hat

Starsearch type contest (Gal Sone wins)

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JapanProbe has an entry about Gyaruru and a clip of a news program about their press conference.

Infoseek.co.jp has an article about Gal Sone and Gyaruru

A fan site for Gyaruru has been set up.

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Liz interviewed Chip Simpson for urbanhonking.com/truefan (A question from that page:).

Pat Bertoletti is right on Joey’s tail, and you’re right on Pat’s tail. Koby aside, are you going into these next months thinking of your most immediate competition as Joey or Pat?

I think I am close to Pat in some foods and close to Joey in some foods. I feel my worst foods just seem to be the ones that they are best at. Any sandwich type food seems to give me trouble and those seem to be primarily what the majors (Nathan’s and Krystal) are.

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Yahoo News reports:

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank on Wednesday said he will introduce a bill this week to lift a ban on online gambling.

Online casino goldenpalace.com was a major sponsor of IFOCE contests before bank transactions for internet gambling were outlawed last October.

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