Erik Denmark has uploaded a song called "Surf & Stillwell" to his blog.
Archive for June, 2009
The Colusa Sun Herald has a report on Sunday's World Tri-Tip Eating Challenge at the Colusa Casino Resort.
KDKA has a video of a hot dog eating contest held the Celebrate America Festival at Kennywood today won by Bob Kuhns. update ZWire has an article about the contest.
Kobayashi has a blog entry about The Onion's report of his retirement.
Queens Courier has an article about Eric "Badlands" Booker, who will perform before the Nathan's finals.
A video of Joey Chestnut's practice session last night at Hooters captioned 'Joey Chestnut kills 64 Hotdogs in 10 minutes" is available. Joey Chestnut will appear in an ESPN.com chat tomorrow morning.
The Weather Channel's website has a video of a hot dog eating contest on the Stephanie Abrams and Mike Bettes show this morning. The video includes a 5 day forecast for Coney Island which predicts that July 4 high to be 76 degrees.
CreativeLoafing.com: The winner's of the mens and womens divisions at the hot dog eating contest held at the Dairy Inn in St. Petersburg, FL will both receive $100.
JohnnaKnowsGoodFood.com: A Canadian will compete in the Z Burger eating contest in Washington, DC on July 2. (If Furious Pete wins, he could call it a Canada Day contest since July 2 is closer to July 1 than the Fourth of July.)
http://twitter.com/ocdj/ The hot dog contest at Fish Tales in Ocean City, MD on July 4 will award $1000 as it did last year.
BrooklynPaper.com has a podcast of a song about the 2009 Nathan's finals performed by Amos Wengler, the Bard of Coney Island.
You can still bet on Crazy Legs Conti vs. Patrick Vandam on Sportbook.com even though Patrick Vandam did not qualify. Both eaters must compete for the bet to be valid, so bettors will not be able to win some easy money by betting on Conti.
mrak75 has uploaded a gallery of Joey Chestnut's final pre-Nathan's practice at the Campbell, CA Hooter's last night.
Challenges by Metro Area (South Atlantic)
Here are lists of eating challenges for South Atlantic (excluding Florida) metro areas:
Atlanta | Charleston, SC | Charlotte | Norfolk | Northern Virginia | Raleigh / Durham | Richmond
Previous Challenges by metro areas lists: west | midwest | south central | Florida
Pizza Challenges on bodybuilding.com
Bodybuilding.com Thread 1 | Thread 2: “Furious” Pete Czerwinski has uploaded a video of him consuming a 16 inch pizza in 2 and a half minutes.
Another bodybuilding.com poster is seeking teammates for the 54 inch square pizza challenge offered by Big Mama’s and Papa’s Pizzeria in Los Angeles
A Detroit area (Shelby Township) hot dog eating contest will award a 32 inch LCD TV on July 8.
The second promo for I'm a Major League Eater is now avaiable. The video contains a lot of footage from the 2009 Acme Oyster contest, but the winner of that event, Sonya Thomas, only appears in the background (at the 1:01 mark) very briefly.
The top 3 in the corndog eating contest is now posted on WLOCE.com. "Bubba" Yarbrough was second with 14 corndogs and Suzanne Freach was third w/ 13.
BeautifulBrian.com has reports on the Bunnette Bootcamp and the Cops vs. Firefighters qualifer. Bob Cocadrillo won the qualifier and will compete in the Nathan's finals Saturday.
(from email) A promo video from Science Impossible which briefly shows "Furious' Pete Czerwinski and Will Millender (around the 45 second mark) is available.
(Via email) Joe Menchetti qualified for the finals of Jake's Burgers contest by eating 5 double hamburgers in 2 minutes, 28 seconds in the June 22 qualifier.
The home page of the Onion has a link to a story about Kobayshi's "retirement from eating" from 2007 which does not mention the original publication date.
Challenges by metro area (Florida)
Here are lists of eating challenges for Florida metro areas
Gainesville | Jacksonville | Miami | Orlando | Pensacola | Tallahassee | Tampa
Previous Challenges by metro areas lists: west | midwest | south central
Loading ...