From El Toro comment and IFOCE.com report:

1. Tim Brown 33
2. David Cohn 13.5
3. Gus Beisel 13

update AZCentral.com has a contest report and gallery and video.

Remo DaVinci has a gallery

update #2 East Valley Tribune has a gallery

Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane competed in today’s Nathan’s qualifier in Kansas and has a blog entry with the results:

1 Erik Denmark 24
2 Chris Abatsas 23
3 Nic “The Incredible Bulk” 21 - Great Bend, KS
4 Pat Bruss 20
? Jason Erb 12
? Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane 10

There was one DQ, but he is not sure who it was.

update KansasCity.com has a contest report

update #2 Skinnyboy has a contest travelog and a gallery This was probably not his favorite eating contest trip

Pizza results from US Male via Steakbellie comment and IFOCE.com report:

Pat Bertoletti 20 (third straight victory in 3 brothers)
Tim Janus 16
Sonya Thomas 16
Bob Shoudt 16
Juliet Lee 13
Crazy Legs Conti 11
Pat Philbin 11
Sean Gordon 11
Dave US Male Goldstein 8.75

update Jill Stoler has a blog entry and some videos

Pat Philbin has uploaded some pictures to myspace

update #2 Beautiful Brian has a contest video and near complete results He is disappointed that some of the eaters did not pay sufficient respect to his performance of “Black and White”

• Article about some local competitors in the Tempe qualifier: David Cohn, Adam Muñoz & Lindsay Veylupek
• Hall Hunt’s predictions for today’s qualifiers
• Article about the McKirdy brothers, which says their next contest will be the Chinook Winds rib contest on July 11
• The Brooklyn pizza contest is tomorrow
• Picture of Karen “Seedsucker” Clark on the Washington Post web site
• Pictures from “Furious” Pete’s Italian Challenge
• English article about Gal Sone’s movie debut

Pat Bertoletti visited Steve Dahl’s radio show this morning. Pat’s appearance was recorded and will appear on the Food Network in an upcoming episode of Roker on the Road.

The two competitive eating organizations might face competition from an unlikely source:

8:05 And then last year he raised his game up and came in 3rd place, officially. He should have come in second place because Kobayashi should have been disqualified for puking.
8:06 Steve can’t believe the IFOCE didn’t step in and overrule it and give Patrick second place. They should do that if they are any sort of legislative body.
8:07 Every time Steve talks to Patrick he wants to start up his own competitive eating league. He would be much stricter about policing it and he wouldn’t allow foreigners. Let’s keep it in America where competitive eating started with the blueberry pie contest.

HoumaToday.com has an article about James Howell preparing for the June 7 Nathan’s qualifier in New Orleans by eating hot dogs at Big Eddie’s Café. The article has the following information about the field for that contest:

The Metairie competition pits Howell against eight other Louisiana residents as well as sport eaters from Alabama, Florida, Texas, Ohio, Tennessee and New York, Reed said. The contest includes first-time sport eaters like Howell as well as experienced competitive eaters like Juris “Dr. Bigtime” Shibayama of Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Wicked Local has an article about the pumpkin pie eating contest between Joe Menchetti and Tom “Goose” Gilbert on the Chris Tabb show. Gilbert’s victory resulted in his being named the top eater in the new independent rankings.

The Times Herald has an article about Joey Chestnut’s appearances in Topps “legend” series of baseball cards and in the upcoming MLE game. Joey says that his performance in the gyro eating contest was hindered by the gyros’ garlic sauce.

• Video of El Toro screaming
• Shannon competes in the men’s division of the Vacaville onion eating contest and finishes third
• Furious Pete to attempt the “Italian Challenge” in Niagara Falls after getting stopped at the US/Canada border crossing update Pete finished the challenge in a record 30 minutes.
• Festival goal of 200,000 brats for the Madison Brat Fest
• Article about the Durham, NC Doughman quadrathlon (triathlon + eating)
• Jill Stoler interviews Ian Hickman
• Gal Sone article in the Mainichi Shimbun

I have not been able to find any information online about Saturday’s Kansas City area Nathan’s qualifier, but commenter ticate Munito says an article about the contest appeared in the Overland Park, KS newspaper and listed expected entrants as Pat Bruss, Erik Denmark, Chris Abatsas, Andrew Lane and Jason Erb.

The Simi Valley Acorn reports that Michael Watts ate a 6 pound steak at Dakota’s Steakhouse in Simi Valley, California three days after his 25th birthday. By finishing the steak in under an hour, he received $220 from his family, $50 more than the cost of the steak.

CBS3 has a video about Watt’s feast.

A hot dog eating contest will be held at Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs in Denver this summer. The first qualifier in a series of 4 will take place on Sunday, June 1 and the top two finishers in each qualifier will advance to the finals on July 27. The grand prize is a $300 gift certificate to Sam’s Club / Wal-mart and the entrance fee is $25, with proceeds going to the Colorado Aids Walk and Project Angel Heart.

AZReporter has a preview of Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier at Arizona Mills Mall in Tempe. The field is listed as: Tim Brown, Erik Denmark, Kevin Ross, El Toro, Russ “The Mad Stork” Witzke, Jesus Cabrales, David “Conan” Cohn and Wallace “Bye Bye” Beisel. The article contains the following prediction:

Richard Shea, president of Major League Eating, the group that governs the Nathan’s Famous contest circuit, said: “I believe an unknown eating champion is walking the streets of Hartford, a champion who possesses the pride of Connecticut and the stomach capacity required to set a new world hot dog eating record.”

Pizza Marketing Quarterly has a press release about Saturday’s contest at Three Brothers Pizza in Greenbelt, Maryland. There will be no amateur competition this year; the undercard will consist of a contest between two local high schools. Pat Bertoletti, Tim Janus, Bob Shoudt, Sonya Thomas, Juliet Lee and 13 unnamed professionals are listed as expected entrants. There will also be an autograph session for eaters along with a pizza tossing exhibition.

• Sadie of Hungry Sisters got married last weekend and had a “wedding reception” at Krystal
• Juliet Lee has updated her WriteNow page with a report from the Pittsburgh Nathan’s qualifier
• Beautiful Brian has a “bigger bit” about his second cousin Abe Vigoda
• Wing eating contest in Marietta, Georgia on Saturday
• Video of Gal Sone competing against Torii Miyuki in a Wednesday morning eating contest. Torii Miyuki is a comedienne who act consists of acting crazy while wearing pajamas.

The next press release for the Major League Eating video game is now available and contains mini-biographies of four of the game characters. El Toro’s career has the following synopsis:

El Toro has a big mouth, although it doesn’t seem to serve him well in competition. Fond of extravagant claims, personal attacks on other eaters and all sorts of theatrics, he is usually at the bottom of the pack at the end of any given contest. Other eaters see him as abrasive, offensive, and void of talent. He does, however, contribute to the sport by setting an example of what not do

A video from the watermelon contest promoting the MLE game containing an interview with Badlands Booker was also released today.

Today is the official release date of Gal Sone’s autobiography. The new poll asks what autobiography by an eater who debuted in 2003 or earlier would you be most interested in reading.

SuperSizedMeals.com has a gallery from the May 17 Bigger Mac Daddy Burger eating contest. The captions state that Ian Hickman was the winner.

The website for the British tabloid, The Mirror, has an article about Saturday’s Nathan’s qualifier near Pittsburgh which asserts there are issues about Juliet Lee’s eligibility to enter that contest.

• Article and gallery of crawfish eating contest at the Mudbug Festival in Shreveport, LA
• Report about Niko Niko’s gyro eating contest in Houston
• Pat Bertoletti’s May 16 appearance on the Steve Dahl show is praised
• Man with Mohawk wins shoo fly pie eating contest held on Amish Night at Wilmington, DE minor league game
• http://swallowyourpridemovie.com/ appears defunct
• Geeling Ng, who co-starred in David Bowie’s “China Girl” video, competes in oyster eating contest in New Zealand

If you missed this afternoon’s broadcast of the Collegiate Nationals on CBS, the entire contest can be viewed in its entirety on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYqJCLFSCYY

“Beautiful” Brian Seiken has uploaded a page praising Joey Chestnut for temporarily adding critical comments to his myspace page about Takeru Kobayashi and his reported injury.

Results from the strawberry eating contest held at the Strawberry Festival in Delaplane, Virginia have been posted. The top 3:

1. “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti 7.86 lbs. in 7 minutes
2. Joshua “Jabber Jaws” Currier 7.62 lbs.
3. Ian “The Invader” Hickman 6.705 lbs.

Joshua Currier was also the runner up in the Big A burger contest in North Carolina, where he finished 30 seconds behind Joe Menchetti.

update Videos of the professional and amateur contest are available.

Jill Stoler has a blog entry with pictures

David Mitolo has a gallery

Results from anonymous comment & IFOCE.com report :

1. Juliet Lee 29
2. Jim Reeves 19 3/4
3. Micah Collins 19
4T. Steakbellie 17
4T. Brian Subich 17
Mike Landrich ?
Mike Iskoe ?

update The Pittsburgh Channel has a short article about the contest

update #2 Pittsburgh Live has a short article with three pictures

update #3 Some videos (missing a part 3) have been uploaded to youtube and Steakbellie has written a blog entry about the contest

From a Pete Miernicki comment:

1.”Humble” Bob Shoudt 38 HDB
2. Sean Gordon 20
3. Russ Keeler 16

The IFOCE.com report is now out

update KYW newsradio has uploaded a video from the contest to youtube which shows that Sean Gordon finished 2nd and Russ Keeler was 3rd, contrary to the IFOCE report. Humble Bob’s children are interviewed and say their father trains a lot.

update #2 Humble Bob has updated his thoughts page with a contest report.