Deresque has information about the New Year’s Eve eating contest that Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti will participate in. The competition will be part of a professional wrestling / competitive eating extravaganza that will be televised on TV Tokyo. (Pro wrestling is called “hustling” in Japan.) Shirota had a giant spoon at the event announcing the contest.

The transcript of this press conference announces that Gal Sone will be having an eating contest with retired mixed martial artist / pro wrestler Antonio Inoki during the event. Inoki fought Muhammad Ali to a draw in a mixed martial arts contest in 1976.

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The blog for Popular Science magazine has an entry analyzing Ken Domon drinking the contents of a plastic bottle in less than five seconds on Food Battle Club. The blog believes he would not have been able to repeat the stunt using a glass bottle:

The plastic bottle is critical. If he were just holding it upside down, gravity would be doing most of the work, and that’s just not fast enough. Instead, he squeezes the plastic bottle, forcing half the water out. Next, he wisely pauses for a moment there in the middle of his chug, allowing air to creep up through the water and into the space between the new, lower water level and the interior bottom of the bottle.

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Tomoko Miyake derives her nickname, “esute”, from her day job as an aesthetician (cosmetologist). She offers some beauty tips on Yahoo of Japan by going through the contents of her makeup kit.

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In a previous comment, Pat Philbin reports that the Egg Nog Challenge will not be held by the Opie & Anthony show this year. There is some more information on this wackbag thread.

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The BBC reports that Adrian Frost won a meat pie eating contest in Wigan, England. The contest was threatened after a dog ate many of the competition pies the day before the event, but enough replacement pies were produced. The dog, Charlie, was allowed to repeat his gluttony in the contest:

“The twist is that Dave has turned up this morning saying he wants Charlie to enter the contest.

“We’ve nothing in the rules to say dogs can’t compete so he will be lining up against the other pie eaters and judging by his performance yesterday he’s got a great chance of winning.”

However, it seems that Charlie was still full from Wednesday’s mammoth eating session as Mr Williams revealed that he did not even finish his competition pie.

See also: Manchester Evening News

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A list of Major League Baseball players expected by “a team of Competitive Eating News reporters and one CEN web editor” to be in the Mitchell report about performance enhancing drugs in baseball appears on CompetitiveEatingNews.com. Some of the players, such as Roger Clemens, Miguel Tejada and Andy Pettite actually appear in the report, but some, including Albert Pujols, Jeff Bagwell and Johnny Damon, are not present.

update Note the similarity of the CE News list with the list in comment #2 of this baseballthinkfactory thread

update #2 AOL FanHouse has more on the bogus list.
The full CE News list follows after the jump:
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Steakbellie reports that he and Wing Kong succeeded in their Wing Bowl stunts. Steakbellie just had 5 seconds left when he finished all the items on his dollar menu stunt. Videos are available on philly.com, pictures at 610wip.com

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AICE news has the matchups for the five AICE vs. Japan contests.

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A new blog called Wet The Buns has been launched with the following introduction:

For a long time, I have been intrigued by competitive eating… not as a participant and not really as a spectator… I am more interested in its shear [sic] stupidity. I find it ludicrous that it’s considered by many to be a sport… yes, they actually have a governing body (The International Federation of Competitive Eating… www.ifoce.com) complete with rules, regulations, rankings, and record-keeping. And it’s even more ridiculous that this shit is televised.

Anyway, one night while eating (not competitively) with friends, the conversation turned to the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest. One friend questioned how the competitors could consume so much bread in addition to the hot dogs. Without thinking, I replied “When in doubt, wet the buns” in reference to a technique used by the competitors where they dunk the buns in water for easier consumption. It all sounded so ridiculous, that the phrase stuck… a catchphrase, of sorts, representing all that I find stupid.

So, that’s what this site is all about… those things that I find stupid.

Before commenting on the stupidity of others, it would probably be advisable to learn the difference between sheer and shear

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Philly.com reports that tickets for Wing Bowl 16 sold out in 45 minutes this morning

Megamunch helped contribute to the sellout by purchasing 13 tickets.

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Tickets for Wing Bowl 16 are now available and can be purchased from comcast tix

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New Year’s Day is probably a more appropriate holiday for a televised eating contest than Christmas, but the Spike TV schedule now extends to January 1, and the ham & eggs contest is not listed on that date or on December 31.

BestOnCable still reports that the ham & eggs contest will be televised today.

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The Albany Times Union reports that Siena University has added a new seating option for its men’s basketball games:

Beginning Dec. 22 and for all remaining home games, Siena plans to introduce an all-you-can- eat option for its games at Times Union Center.

The school is offering a seat in the upper level that allows you to enjoy an unlimited supply of hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn and fountain soda.

Come for the game, stay for the gluttony.

The cost per ticket is $25 for adults and $18.50 for children 18 and younger. Wristbands, which come with the tickets, will identify the gourmands. Peanuts are in cluded. Pepto-Bismol is not.

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Steakbellie reports that his stunt for Wing Bowl 16 has been approved. He will attempt to eat the 13 items on his local McDonald’s Dollar Value Menu in 5 and a half minutes. He will attempt the stunt on Thursday morning.

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The University of Pennsylvania student paper has an article about yesterday’s “Pol Off” pierogie eating contest to determine a slot in Wing Bowl 16. The photographer from the Daily Pennsylvanian winds up saving the day for the qualifier.

There is also an article about Dave “US Male” Goldstein which appears to be a rehash of an earlier article.

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MyRecordJournal.com has an article and video about “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti recording video footage that will be televised during the AICE vs. Japan contest

Menchetti put on an eating display for about an hour Friday, but much of that time was spent setting up camera shots and bringing out the food.

In that time, he ate five hamburgers, two plates of French fries, three slices of pepperoni pizza, a 12-ounce steak, five hot dogs, half of a stuffed bread, two bottles of water and two cans of diet Coke.

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The endless simmer blog is having an online poll to determine the eater of the year. The choices are Joey Chestnut, The Locavore Four, Anthony Bourdain, Padma Lakshmi, Chocolate Jesus and Al Gore.

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The new poll asks how many IFOCE members from outside the Philadelphia area will compete in the 2008 Wing Bowl. In Angelo Cataldi’s latest blog entry, he says that negotiations between the Wing Bowl and the IFOCE to allow Joey Chestnut to defend his title have not been completed.

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The Shreveport Times has an article about director Gregory Kallenberg, whose first film was “Eating Levi”, a documentary about Levi Oliver. That movie was recently shown at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).Kallenberg hopes his film is accepted by the South by Southwest multimedia festival in Austin, TX.

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Hatsuyo Sugawara prepared for the upcoming AICE vs. Japan contest by winning the Morioka Wanko Soba noodle eating contest. She consumed 340 cups of noodles in 15 minutes, which bested the male runner up by 121 cups and exceeded Sugawara’s 2006 total of 298 cups.

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“Sweet” Jill Stoler has a blog entry and information on her myspace page about recording segments that will be televised during the AICE vs. Japan contest.

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Team hot dog eating contest between students from the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University
Competitive eating article in U of Wisconsin at Eau Clair student paper, has some quotes from Ryan Nerz
Vail Hostess snoball (factory made pastries) eating contest
Bonita Springs, Florida wing contest
Portage, Michigan wing contest

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The San Jose Mercury blog reports that Joey Chestnut judged a hot dog eating contest at half time of the basketball game between San Jose State and Santa Clara. The blog entry is about the author getting an autograph from Joey.

I told him a friend of mine was a fan (again: not totally sure about this now), and I asked for his autograph.

I also told him I work at the Merc (at least until my editors read this) and was covering the game (full disclosure is always best).

For good measure, I asked if he is currently enrolled at SJSU.

“Yeah, but I’m only taking two classes,” he said. Then he paused and kinda half-grinned. “I do other things.”

66 dogs in 12 minutes — I’d say that qualifies as “other things.”

J.C. was really, really nice, and very polite, and he happily signed the autograph (FYI: he’s lefthanded).

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On the home page of beautifulbrian.com, Brian sings “White Christmas” while playing piano.

Brian also has a “director’s cut” of last year’s Christmas episode featuring extended interviews with Juliet Lee and Seaver Miller and a commentary about what goes on behind the scenes in producing an episode along with an excerpt of the Charles Hardy / Dale Boone verbal fracas on youtube.

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The chili cheese fries eating contest held at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA was the most lucrative IFOCE event on the west coast in 2006 and 2007. The good news for the future of that contest is the recent emergence of the contest site from bankruptcy after selling to a group of investors called “Save Our Queen.” The bad news is the new owners might have different priorities for the marketing budget.

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