A gallery of the wing eating contest held during Mike & Mike in the Morning in which Tim Janus, Crazy Legs Conti and Pete Davekos competed against co-host Mike Golic is available on ESPN.com

The video clip of the roundtable meeting of E:60 reporters and producers on ESPN.com is considerably longer (8:37) than the segment that was televised. The meeting consists mainly of a discussion on whether competitive eating is a sport. Jeremey Schaap cites competitive eating on the Versus network (which has never televised eating contests, as far as I am aware) as evidence of its popularity. He also says he has never seen such passion as he saw at last month’s cannoli contest and was genuinely moved by Brad Sciullo’s crying at the end of that competition.

I will teleblog the competitive eating segment on the E:60 episode currently being broadcast. It appears the competitive eating segment will be the last to air and start around 7:40-7:45 pm eastern.

The episode will be rerun on ESPN2 at: 10/23 8:00 PM, 10/27 3:00 PM and 10/27 11:00 PM (all times eastern), but the segment will be available on e60.com.

update The competitive eating segment and the reporter roundtable are now available on ESPN.com. There is a also a page where viewers can submit videos to comment on the episode.

The teleblog is available after the jump
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ESPNMediaZone has a press release about Tuesday’s E:60 that will be televised on ESPN at 7pm eastern which will have a segment about competitive eating:

In a sport replete with colorful personalities, E:60 correspondent Jeremy Schaap takes an in-depth look at competitive eating and addresses some of the sport’s salient health and social issues. Highlights include interviews with some of the greatest “eaters” in the world such as Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut, Juliet Lee, “Crazy Legs” Conti and Tim “Eater X” Janus.

Juliet Lee has updated her WriteNow page with news of her trip to New York City to compete in the Famous Famiglia pizza eating contest and record her appearance on Guy Fieri’s “Big Show” on the Food Network.

Juliet also recorded a segment for ESPN’s E:60 news magazine program, which is expected to be televised on October 21.

The La Contena “Feel the Heat” jalapeno eating contest in Chicago yesterday was listed at #7 in the Sportscenter top 10 plays of the weekend.

The Nathan’s finals will be rerun tonight on ESPN at 3am eastern. This is the only rerun that currently appears in the online TV schedules.

A rerun of the last Friday’s Nathan’s finals will be televised on ESPN on July 11 at 3am eastern.

There will be a new competitive eating video game released in time for the Nathan’s finals. Page 2 on ESPN.com has a flash based game which involves clicking and dragging hot dogs moving at variable speed into an eater’s mouth.

According to Zap2It.com, ESPN’s telecast of the 2008 Nathan’s finals will rerun immediately after the original program. This will be the only additional showing in the week following July 4.

The 2007 Nathan’s finals were rerun 7 times between July 4 and July 12.

Neil Best’s sports media blog reports that there was an increase in the number of internet searches for the “Mike & Mike” radio show on ESPN radio on May 1, the day of the wing eating contest between Mike Golic and three IFOCE members.

Results from the wing eating contest on the “Mike & Mike” show on ESPN radio:

1. Tim “Eater X” Janus 31 wings in 3 minutes
2. Crazy Legs Conti 23
3. Pete Davekos 22
4. Mike Golic 15

Video and audio podcasts of the contest are available. A live blog is also available on mike-greenberg.com.

The Hartford Courant has an article about the contest

The home page for ESPN Radio has interviews with Tim Janus and Pete Davekos about competing against Mike Golic on the “Mike & Mike” show tomorrow morning. There is also a message board about the contest.

The press release for tomorrow’s wing eating contest between Mike Golic of ESPN radio and Tim Janus, Crazy Legs Conti and Pete Davekos follows after the jump:

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A web page about the upcoming eating contest on the Mike & Mike show has been set up on espn.com. The page announces that the third IFOCE eater will be Pete Davekos. (from email)

A an audio and video podcast are also available. Richard Shea, who will provide commentary for the contest, appears on the audio podcast and announces that the contest will be three minutes long. The competitive eating segment of the podcast begins at the 9 minute mark with a parody of “Wing Beneath my Wings”. (Mike-Greenberg.com has the lyrics) Richard Shea says that Mike Greenberg will receive an MLE poncho to wear during the contest which will be available for sale this summer.

The video podcast consists of reading and answering emails about the contest.

On the webpage, Mike Golic describes his interest in competitive eating:

Back in the day, when Golic was playing for the Eagles, he was an avid fan of the Wing Bowl, an annual eating contest in Philadelphia. “I’m no stranger to mass quantities of food,” says Golic, “but I am a stranger to the speed I would have to eat [in the contest.]”

According to his Wikipedia page, Golic’s stint with the Philadelphia Eagles ended in 1992. The inaugural Wing Bowl took place in 1993.

Mike-Greenberg.com announces that Mike Golic’s eating contest will take place on May 1 between 8:05 and 8:20 am eastern. The contest will be simulcast on ESPN2 and ESPNRadio.com. The food will be wings from Buffalo Wild Wings. Golic’s opponent was not listed.

update A video clip of the announcement is available. Tim Janus and Crazy Legs Conti and at least one other unnamed eater are expected to be Golic’s competition. Mike Greenberg wants to use the hottest wings on Buffalo Wild Wings’ menu.

A video clip of Crazy Legs Conti’s phone interview on the April 1 “Mike and Mike” show can be viewed on ESPN.com. A graphic lists Crazy Legs’ first name as “Kevin”. That video clip is available for download.

The full interview is available in an audio podcast. Crazy Legs’ interview starts around the 30 minute mark. Crazy Legs will probably be a commentator for Mike Golic’s contest and he suggests Krystal burgers as the food. Conti says that Sonya will not defend her 2005 title at the Acme Oyster eating contest.

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.

Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg of ESPN radio and ESPN2 are finalizing the details of their 2008 NCAA tournament wager. A poll on ESPN.com is currently available to determine Golic’s fate if he loses the wager. The five choices in that poll are:

• Dress in drag for an entire show
• Get a full body waxing on the show
• Receive a botox shot in the forehead during the show
• Participate in a competitive eating contest vs. the pros on the show
• Follow a vegan diet for an entire week

The winning choice will be revealed during tomorrow’s show.

updated corrected Mr. Golic’s first name (thanks Wing Tut)

Update March 13 Mike-Greenberg.com reports that the eating contest was the winning choice.

The website for the newspaper of Providence College has an interview with Michael Springer. Springer was prohibited from competing in the finals for the “Eat The Meat” wing contest after winning a qualifier, but that ban was not mentioned in the interview.

In other news about big eating Friars, this Rhode Island Monthly article about former Providence basketball player, and current ESPN announcer, Doris Burke, reports she is the second biggest eater in women’s basketball:

She’s hungry, and as she parks in the darkness of a casino garage she hopes she isn’t too late for the crew lunch. She works out ninety minutes most days at a gym near her house, and she is as slender as she was twenty years ago when she played at PC. You wouldn’t know it from looking at her, but she can out-eat any woman on the basketball circuit but one, and she’s half Burke’s age.

The current top 10 in ESPN’s All-SportsNation Team of 2007

64.7% Randy Couture
30.2% Floyd Mayweather Jr.
17.7% Tom Brady
12.9% Alex Rodriguez
12.7% Brett Favre
11.2% Tiger Woods
8.6% LeBron James
7.9% Randy Moss
5.3% Joey Chestnut
5.3% Kobe Bryant

Joey Chestnut is a choice in ESPN.com’s online poll to determine the 5 members of the 2007 All-SportsNation Team. If the poll is like last year’s, voters will be able to vote an unlimited number of times.

Joe Menchetti appears in an ESPN.com article about fans of the University of Connecticut traveling to the Gulf Coast for the men’s and women’s Final Fours in 2004:

Another stroll down River Walk, and I run into “Big Red,” a really loud fan who always starts the crowd cheering “U-C-O-N-N!” He gives me the cell-phone number of a Joe Manchetti, another Huskie-maniac who is on the road somewhere between New Orleans and San Antonio.

“I flew on Friday from Hartford to Baton Rouge, and drove to San Antonio,” said Joe. “Took me about seven hours. We were tired. After the Saturday games, we walked back to the hotel — for about a mile. I took a shower and a power nap for a few hours. Totally forgot about Daylight Savings Time.

A clip from ESPN’s Sportcenter about the results of Krystal Square Off IV can be viewed at http://broadband.espn.go.com/ivp/splash2?id=3084545

According to this 2003 article in the Washington Times, Stacey Dales might be the ESPN sideline reporter with the best background for next year’s Nathan’s finals broadcast:

Dales-Schuman is at home behind both a microphone - she cut her promos flawlessly - and a dinner plate. Tough, double-session practices have burned off the calories and she works out on her own, but she still is one of those high-metabolism types who can live on the buffet line and stay maddeningly thin. Some mayonnaise with that? Absolutely. She proceeded to liberally apply the stuff, with apparent glee, from a squeeze bottle. “I’m a hog,” she said while chomping on a giant turkey hoagie.

“She eats like a madwoman,” said Indiana Fever coach Nell Fortner, who worked with Dales-Schuman in the studio during ESPN’s coverage of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament and is one of many who marvels at her appetite. “It’s hilarious. There was food all over the desk. Then with 20 seconds to go before we went on, it’s, like, clear the desk. I tell her she eats like a cow. She grazes all day long.”