ESPN Front Row has a report on three ESPN staffers attempting the Hall of Famer burger challenge at Silders Grill & Bar in Plainville, CT.
Darren Rovell reports that the 2011 Nathan's hot dog eating contest on ESPN received a 1.1 overnight rating, less than 2010 but more than the 2008 & 09 ratings. update Rovell says that the 2011 contest had the most viewers (1.94 million) since ESPN began televising it in 2004.
AwfulAnnouncing.com has a list of quotes from yesterday's broadcast of Nathan's hot dog eating contest.
Wikipedia fabrication in 2010 ESPN Nathan’s graphic
A graph in last year’s broadcast of the Nathan’s finals listed Llamas as the top Nathan’s performer in the 1980′s with a total near 20 hot dogs. This is based on a Wikipedia fabrication claiming that Luis Llamas from Mexico won the 1983 contest with a total of 19.5 hot dogs.
According to an Associated Press article, the winner in 1983 was Emil Gomez with a total of 10.5 hot dogs.
Some ESPN Nathan's links:
- Sport Science segment on Joey Chestnut
- Joey Chestnut is interviewed while 10 ESPN employees attempt to eat more than 68 hot dogs
- Transcript of Joey Chestnut's chat session
- Yahoo interviews sideline report Renee Herlocker
The New York Post has an article about the competitors in the women's division of the Nathan's finals. update ESPNW also has an article about the women's division.
Joey Chestnut will be doing a chat session on ESPN.com at 3 pm eastern. (Link to session)
ESPNMediaZone3.com has information about ESPN's coverage of the Nathan's finals on July 4. Pat Bertoletti will wear a heart monitor during the contest.
AOL Weird News has an article about the Nathan's women's division with quotes from Larell Marie Mele confirming that the female contest will not be televised on ESPN; live coverage will be available online on ESPN3.
The women's contest at the Nathan's finals may not appear on ESPN. IFOCE.com lists the start time of the female division at 11:30 am eastern and the ESPN broadcast will start at 12 noon eastern. (Grace Lee has planned a watch party, hopefully the women's contest will appear on some channel)
The 2011 Nathan's finals will be televised live in the United Kingdom on ESPN America and Paul Page will return as announcer despite calling the defending champion "Joey Chitwood" on last year's broadcast.
Renee Herlocker announces that she will be the field reporter for ESPN's broadcast of the Nathan's finals on July 4. update May 19 SBNation has more on Herlocker, who was a Denver Broncos cheerleader from 2000 to 2006.
Adam Richman's appearance on ESPN2's First Take on Thursday to promote Man vs. Food: Nation can be viewed online.
Adam Schefter of ESPN says he will continue to cover the NFL unless he is assigned to Takeru Kobayashi.
ESPN has an article about Adam Richman's new program The Traveler's Guide to Life, that will debut tomorrow on the Travel Channel at 10 pm.
In a response to a twitter question, Bonnie Bernstein of ESPN says she would not only have joined a collegiate competitive eating team if it existed when she was a gymnast at the University of Maryland, she claims she would have been a four time national champion in eating. update A facebook page about the team has been started.
The ESPN SportCenter blog has an interview with Keith Solomon, the founder of the new competitive eating club at the University of Maryland, who says that Juliet Lee is the inspiration for the club.
Adam Richman announces that he will appear on the ESPN networks today. update Nov 19 video | gallery | chat session transcript
Here is the clip of "Furious" Pete Czerwinski's 72 ounce steak record receiving 2 cheers on Tuesday's Sportsnation on ESPN:
FuriousPeteSportsNation.avi (35 sec 4 MB)
"Furious" Pete Czerwinski annouces that his 72 ounce steak video will appear on today's episode of Jim Rome is Burning on ESPN at 4:30 eastern. (Jim Rome is not a competitive eating fan, so his commentary might not be %100 positive.) update A post on the Jim Rome facebook page about the steak video currently has 94 comments. update "Furious" Pete has uploaded the "Final Burn" segment of Jim Rome is Burning about Pete's steak video
USA Today reports that 1.2% United States households watched the 2010 Nathan's finals (corresponding to 1.677 million viewers) This is an audience increase of about 400,000 from last year, and about the same number of viewers as in 2007.
ESPN.com Page 2 has an interview with Joey Chestnut and CNN's Eatocracy has a video.
ESPN.com's Page 2 has posted some eating stories that were requested on Monday. Bethany P's tale of eating 71 pigs in a blanket in 20 minutes at a law firm's reception was declared the winner.
Youtube has a video of an interview Joey Chestnut did on ESPN's First Take today. update Joey also did a hot dog contest with Michelle Beadle on SportsNation today.
ESPN.com's Page 2 is requesting readers to submit their best food and sports stories before noon Wednesday. The best stories will be published on ESPN.com on Thursday.
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