The Star Telegram has an article about an eating contest between 10 people in the all you can eat section of the Texas Rangers ballpark.

Megamunch has a report about his and Carey Poehlmann’s attempt to do the “9 inning challenge” by eating an amount of hot dogs corresponding to the current inning number.

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From Beautiful Brian’s bits & pieces:

It has been brought to my attention that certain IFOCE members more than likely pertaining to the the top 25 have been sent emails regarding their availabilty for an upcoming SPIKE tv special in Las Vegas which would span the course of 3 or 4 days during the early part of Oct.You would need to take a week off from work. Sponsors will cover your airfare and hotel expenses along with $1000 spending money. Sounds like U.S open all over again, but this time with no mention of lottery picks

More information can be found in the comments of this megamunch post.

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A video of El Toro interviewing Rich & Carlene LeFevre can be viewed at http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/locust.html

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Derek “Wing Tut” Payne has resumed blogging at wingtut.blogspot.com He intends to blog about non competitive eating topics in addition to eating contest news.

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Brian Seiken has added a quiz about Sonya Thomas enabling fans to test their knowledge of the world’s greatest female competitive eater.

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The Clarion Ledger reports that Alex Thomas of Roanoke, VA won today’s Backyard burger qualifier in Flowood, MS, completing the field for the finals. Thomas drove all the way from Roanoke to the contest.

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ConnPost.com reports that Pat Bertoletti defeated Joey Chestnut at the rib contest at the Ash Creek Saloon in Fairfield, CT today.

update The Daily Southtown has a profile of Bertoletti from before the ribs co ntest

update #2 The Stamford Advocate also has an article about the contest.

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KrystalSquareOff.com reports that Sonya Thomas won today’s qualifier in Chattanooga for the fourth year in a row with 51 burgers. Rick Petralia was second with 24 burgers.

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The roster for today’s Krystal qualifier in Chattanooga has been listed at http://www.krystalsquareoff.com/headlines.php?s=64 Sonya Thomas will attempt to win the qualifier for the fourth year in a row. Super Paul Barlow is the only other ranked IFOCE member on the list.

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The Reno Gazette Journal has a preview of the Best in the West Nugget World Eating Championship containing some quotes from Rich LeFevre.

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ClarionLedger has a preview of tomorrow’s Backyard burger qualifier in Flowood, MS. Morris Mermelstein, 5th place finisher in a Krystal Square Off qualifier, will cross over to compete in the contest.

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Liz has posted a long interview with Crazy Legs Conti following his victory in the Saratoga qualifier to truefan:

I genuinely feel bad that Mike Landrich didn’t make it. I’ve never met him, I don’t know what he put up in Vegas, but if it’s any consolation to him, I didn’t get an email confirmation either. There is no grand IFOCE conspiracy afloat, I saw an event I wanted to go to so I picked up the phone and found out the info and showed up. In high school it took six calls before I got a girl to agree, but I made it to the prom. I arrived at Saratoga to learn that instead of the usual seventy people, only seven preregistered for the contest.

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The Sault Star reports that Keith Knight died Wednesday night from brain cancer at 51:

Knight is perhaps best known for his role as Larry Finklestein, a counsellor-in-training in Meatballs, the 1979 Canadian comedy that marked his feature film debut and cast Saturday Night Live alum Bill Murray in his first starring role.

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Meatballs, budgeted at $1.6 million and shot in Haliburton, earned more than $25 million in the first six weeks of its release, making it at the time the top-grossing Canadian film of all time.

Knight, who ate more than 100 hot dogs during filming of a hot-dog-eating contest, described Meatballs as “American Graffiti goes to camp.”

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The Brooklyn Papers has an article about “Fat March” participant Will Millender who won a pizza eating contest in Brooklyn.

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The Kolache Factory World Kolache Eating Championship will be held in Houston after an Astros game on September 14. The purse will be $10,000 and registration is now open. The cannoli eating contest at the Feast of San Gennaro will also be held that day. Registraton for the cannoli contest opens August 24.

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KrystalSquareOff.com reports that prequalifiers for Krystal Square Off IV started on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in a record heat wave of 104 degrees.

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WhiteLabelDub has two videos of Saturday’s Three Brothers Pizza eating contest at http://www.youtube.com/user/whitelabeldub

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(From Hall Hunt) “Super” Paul Barlow Jr. appeared in a jalapeno eating contest on “Good Day Atlanta” which can be viewed online.

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Erik “the Red” announces in a podcast that he wants to appear in the Guinness Book of World Records for jalapeno eating and also break the MLE record for habanero peppers.

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Xinhuanet reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone went to Guangzhou, China to compete in an eating contest.

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WebMD has an article about the health impact of competitive eating. Joey Chestnut, Hall Hunt and Dr. David Metz are quoted.

If competitors are vomiting regularly, that could cause problems, Sitaraman says. Protracted vomiting can increase the chances of aspiration, or food getting into the lungs rather than the esophagus. This can lead to deadly pneumonia. But competitive eaters say vomiting at competitions is rare.

Sitaraman was surprised when, doing a search of the medical literature of the past several years, she found no reported complications from competitive eating, short of a single case of a jaw fracture. “Maybe [competitive eaters'] gastrointestinal tract has adapted and acclimatized to eat those calories,” she speculates.

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From AICE news:

As predicted by Chairman Chowhound Chapman, Gentleman Joe Menchetti and Elizabeth “Rubber-Gut” Cassidy defeated the great Shirota and Miyake in decisive fashion at the Wallace Pumpkin Farm in Rhode Island. It seems that Gentleman Joe Menchetti who cannot be beaten by man or beast in the pumpkin disciplines and the unknown “Queen Guttress” (stay tuned America, you will be finding out more about this amazing female Eater in the near future) put down the proverbial hammer as they won four of the five contests.

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IFOCE.com has the prize breakdown for Krystal Square Off IV:

1st $10,000, 2nd $7,500, 3rd 3,500 4th – $2,300; 5th – $2,000; 6th – $1,800; 7th – $1,500; 8th – $1,300; 9th – $1,200; 10th – $1,100; 11th – $1,000; 12th – $700; 13th- $600 and 14th-$500

With 9 qualifiers and Kobayashi’s bye, 14 prizes implies that 4 wild cards will reach the finals.

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This gallery of the Los Angeles Tofu Festival says that the winner of the tofu eating contest needed only 16 seconds to finish the block of tofu. The winner’s name is not listed.

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The website for the Beach Boogie & BBQ Festival has a roster for the pork barbecue sandwich eating contest:

Organized by International Federation of Competitive Eating and Major League Eating Association. Featuring Joey Chestnutt, current #1 Eater in the World, and #3 Pat Bertoletti, #7 Bob Stoudt, #9 Hall Hunt, #10 Juliet Lee and #13 Arturo Rios.

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