Competitive eating will apparently appear on ESPN / ESPN2 before July 4. According to Mike-Greenberg.com, Mike Greenberg won his NCAA bracket challenge with Mike Golic. Golic’s penalty for losing will be competing in an eating contest against pro eaters during his radio show which is simulcast on ESPN2. It will be interesting to see who Golic faces in his contest.

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This month’s edition of The Challenge, a magazine produced by Pilot Travel Centers, has an article about the IFOCE with quotes from Joey Chestnut, Tim Janus, Rich LeFevre and Richard Shea.

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A page on MajorLeagueEating.com reports that the Nathan’s qualifier schedule will be released in the near future:

While all dates and cities are not yet announced, Major League Eating has learned that Nathan’s circuit stops will include Las Vegas, Hartford, Philadelphia and Charlotte. There’s also talk of stops in Minneapolis and Camden, NJ.

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BlogLive reports that Hatsuyo “the witch” Sugawara won the Gluttonous Queen contest televised today, denying Natsuko “Gal” Sone a threepeat in that contest.

R Suzuki has a writeup of the first half of the program.

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The free preview for “Stick to Blogging” on beautifulbrian.com will end sometime after midnight and then go on sale on PayPal on March 31.

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The 2008 Nathan’s qualifier schedule will not start in conjunction with a Florida Panthers NHL game as the previous two years have; the final Panthers home game of the season was last night.

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(From anonymous comment) A youtube video of Joey Chestnut setting the Big Texan 72 ounce steak record is available. The video appears to be taken from the Big Texan webcam and lacks audio.

update The 72 ounce steak videos from Joey Chestnut and “Furious” Pete are embedded after the jump
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The Totally Serious Sports News Network has an article about Cleveland Indians pitcher Masahide Kobayashi being mistaken for someone else with that surname:

Needless to say, Kobayashi is already questioning whether signing with Cleveland was the best thing for him.

“Seriously, the fact that no one knew Kobayashi is a common Japanese name is kind of offensive,” he said. “It’s amazing to me that a team called the ‘Indians’ can be so racially insensitive.”

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A list of eating challenges which reportedly offer cash prizes if successfully completed follows:

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Liz Gilbert, two time winner of the women’s division in Pete’s Grill pancake eating contest, has graduated from Johns Hopkins and is acting in a play called “Game On” this weekend:

Last fall the playwrights met with the apprentices and talked with them about the play’s sports theme. In those discussions, the writers discovered certain ideas and talents that they incorporated into the piece. For example, actor Elizabeth Gilbert, a two-time pancake-eating champion of Baltimore, inspired a segment about competitive eating. Apprentice Bing Putney’s ability to jump tall objects was included in scenes involving lacrosse players.

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(From Save The Deli) The New York Times has an article and slideshow about restaurants near the exits of the New Jersey Turnpike. Harold’s New York Deli in Edison, NJ was visited near exit 10:

Harold Jaffee cut his teeth as general manager at the Carnegie Deli in Manhattan, where the sandwiches are big enough. But there’s something about New Jersey that made him want to do things bigger.

At Harold’s New York Deli, in a Holiday Inn just a kreplach’s toss from Exit 10, Mr. Jaffee serves a 26-ounce pastrami sandwich, two little triangles of bread teetering like a farce atop twin peaks of meat. The house-cured pastrami is soft, warm and mildly spiced. You can feed a carload on it, supplemented by slices of rye and half sours from the “world’s largest pickle bar.”

The 26 ounce sandwich is not the largest item on the menu; triple decker sandwiches are available.

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Beautiful Brian announces that his new CD “Stick to Blogging”, will be previewed 5 times starting on Sunday, March 30 at the times:

8am - 9am
12 noon - 1pm
4pm - 5pm
8pm - 9pm
12 midnight to 1am (March 31)

After the final free preview, the album will be available for purchase on PayPal.

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• Juliet Lee updates her WriteNow page - includes commentary on “Romeo”
• “Humble” Bob answers the IFOCE questionnaire
• “Furious” Pete is considering doing a team pizza challenge singlehandedly
• More on Gene Simmons’ New Zealand pizza eating contest
• Honolulu corned beef musubi results and picture
• Battle of the Bone qualifier #2 gallery and results
• Woman asks man out to watch a “Munch Madness” qualifier, man declines
• Lucy “Are you Gonna Eat That” Bauer wing contest video
• Profile of Gersh Kuntzman
• Gluttonous Queen rookie Atsumi Furukawa starts a web page
• R Suzuki and Tomoko Miyake comment on the Clinton Station Diner giant burger contest, which is now available on the NNN website.

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Sports Illustrated recently made its entire archive free. Some competitive eating articles from the last 5 years follow:

• 2008 - article about Wing Bowl 16
• 2007 - Rick Reilly dines with Joey Chestnut in the LA Dodgers all you can eat section
• 2007 - Nathan’s preview about Joey Chestnut
• 2007 - list of IFOCE records
• 2006 - paragraph about planned Wing Bowl movie
• 2006 - Steve Rushin column containing the “degree of a lazy susan” metaphor
• 2004 - post-Nathan’s article

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The new poll asks what commenting policy you would like to see on eatfeats. The results will be non-binding. Automatic approval of unregistered comments will not be implemented regardless of the results. Over 200,000 spam comments have been received by this website.

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Voodoo Doughnuts in Portland, Oregon will host a doughnut eating contest for mayoral candidates on May 2. The competition appears on the calendar of candidate Sho Dozono. Voodoo Doughnuts made a doughnut in honor of Dozono’s birthday.

Liz K blogs that she will travel to Portland next week and plans to make a trip to Voodoo Doughnuts.

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TV Tokyo has set up a page about this year’s edition of the “Gluttonous Queen” contest that will be televised on Sunday. Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara is listed as one of the rivals for “Gal” Sone’s crown.

TV Tokyo also has a page with links to all the Gluttonous King / Queen contests since 2005.

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Frank Pastore, former Cincinnati Reds pitcher and current radio talk show host, reports in his blog that Joey Chestnut broke his record for the Big Texan’s 72 ounce steak and side items. Chestnut’s mark was 8 minutes and 52 seconds, breaking Pastore’s 21 year old record of 9 and a half minutes.

update A podcast of Frank Pastore’s appearance on the Hugh Hewitt show is available. Pastore’s segment starts around the 18:50 mark.

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In a blog entry from February 18, Angelo Cataldi responds to a request to have a Delaware Valley residency requirement for the 2009 Wing Bowl with another proposed restriction:

Our thought right now – 11 months away from the next Wing Bowl – is to have an event that is strictly for amateurs in 2009. Anyone who is or has been associated with a professional-eating organization would be ineligible. I hope – if we can get this plan approved – that it will address many of the concerns about the competition in Wing Bowl 17.

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The University of Maryland student newspaper has an article about Brian “Eatin’” Keaton, who will compete in the North American Collegiate Eating Championship in San Diego next month. Keaton’s major is food science.

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ABCNews has an article about the G4 cable network’s upcoming schedule:

This summer, look for more humor aimed at the Maxim set: Hurl, an original U.S.-made eating-and-regurgitating competition that will gorge contestants on chicken pot pies or clam chowder, then strap them into spinning rides. “Whoever hurls last wins,” says G4 president Neal Tiles.

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The previous two years, the qualifying circuit for Nathan’s was released by March 1, 2006 and March 2, 2007.

An anonymous commenter claims that the Nathan’s finals in 2008 will be an invitational, with the 2007 finalists invited (presumably excluding Dale Boone) along with one or two others.

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A show hosted by DJ Flywheel promoting the upcoming release of the “Stick to Blogging” CD is available on beautifulbrian.com. Guests include “Beautiful” Brian, Badlands Booker, Helen Haggerty, Tim Janus, Nate Biller and Crazy Legs Conti.

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A page on IFOCE.com announces the retirement of Brad Sciullo.

Brad emailed that he had retired several weeks ago, but it was unclear if he wanted that publicized, so it was not announced on eatfeats.

update The reason for retirement Brad provided in his email was not health related.

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• Spike TV graphic replaced with Acme Oyster House logo on IFOCE.com home page (cached version) MLE page on SpikeTV.com remains up (from comment)
• Don Lerman considers entering Carnegie Deli pickle contest, then decides against it
• Galleries and video of Munch Madness (Connecticut) qualifiers
• First Battle of the Bone qualifier results
• Texas eating contest reportedly faked for travel show
• Mio “Sakura” Takahashi eats 5.3 kg of curry and then is filmed with an infared camera
• Gal Sone dines with Jaycee Chan, son of Jackie
• Cartoon of Loki’s eating contest from Norse Mythology

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