This evening's ESPN Sportcenter had a long story on competitive eating which can be viewed online. The segment originally ran on E:60 in October and a reporter roundtable about the clip is also available.
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, who competed in the Nathan's finals in the 1990s, has a short documentary about the contest on his website.
Pat Bertoletti has posted a video of a 2007 practice session that was witnessed by a giant inflatable man (presumably a likeness of radio host Steve Dahl)
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.
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.
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.
(from email) A promo video from Science Impossible which briefly shows "Furious' Pete Czerwinski and Will Millender (around the 45 second mark) is available.
A 2007 video with English subtitles of Tomoko Miyake competing against the Korean boy band Super Junior is available. Tomoko's segment starts around the 4 minute mark.
CBSAtlanta.com has a video of a contest Paul Barlow did to promote Saturday's Atlanta area Nathan's qualifier. update Part 2 is now available.
Youtube has a promo for I'm a Major League Eater, which will be televised on the Biography Channel on July 8. Tim Janus, Crazy Legs Conti, Juliet Lee and Tim Brown will be the featured eaters.
A video of Joey Chestnut's hot dog eating contest versus three production assistants on Comcast Sports Net Bay Area is available
Beanstockd has a short interview with Joey Chestnut from the Guy's Choice Awards which will be televised tomorrow night at 10 pm. Spike TV also has a page and video about the Chow-lenge
WXII12.com has a video reporting the results of Jennie's attempt to eat 100 wings during a newscast to promote the wing eating contest to be held at tomorrow's Wingfest at the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market in Colfax, NC.
Levi Oliver has an interview on youtube in which he provides tips for competitors in the raw onion eating contest to be held at the Texas Testosterone Festival on August 9.
A video of Ian Hickman's victory in Saturday's contest at the grand opening celebration of Fractured Prune donuts is available.
Pat Bertoletti has uploaded videos from the calamari contest at Mallie's to his youtube page.
NewsVideoWeb has an interview of Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi at the Guys Choice Award after the P'Zone Chow-lenge
(via crawfish twitter) PatBertoletti has uploaded a video of Saturday's Nathan's qualifier in Minnesota.
JoshDaleEats.com eating challenge webcasts
JoshDaleEats.com has started webcasting live Wedndesday afternoon eating challenges at 1 PM Central (2 PM eastern). Today’s challenge will consist of items from the Wendy’s Value Menu: Double Stack, Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger, Crispy Chicken Sandwich, Spicy Chicken Go Wrap, Homestyle Chicken Go Wrap, Grilled Chicken Go Wrap, 5-piece Nuggets and Value French Fries.
A video of the overtime session in Saturday's contest at Choo Choo's burgers between "Sunshine" and Will Millender is available on youtube.
Julie Dey on TwinCitiesLive video
TwinCitiesLive has a video of Julie Dey’s appearance on Friday to promote the Minnesota Nathan’s qualifier. She says she was inspired to enter by Pat Bertoletti and his girlfriend. After describing the typical amount of food she eats in a buffet, she competes in a short contest against one of the shows hosts.
Julie Dey ate 11 hot dogs to finish third in her first ever official eating contest. The contest was held in a cold rain and Pat Bertoletti claimed the hot dogs were leathery. If you think that Pat Bertoletti would have eaten %50-%100 more in optimal conditions and adjust Ms. Dey’s performance by a similar amount, it could have rivaled Sonya Thomas 18 HDB in 2003 (in 12 minutes) as one of the top overall competitive eating debuts at a Nathan’s qualifier.
Samantha Brown at AICE Italian Sausage on youtube
A clip of the Travel Channel’s Samantha Brown competing in the 2008 World Italian Sausage Eating Championship is available on youtube. Derek “Wing Tut” Payne, “Tiny” Tim Rauscheder (in the background of the thumbnail above), Carey Poehlmann and others appear in the clip. The entire episode of Great Weekends: Boston will be televised on Saturday night.
Erik Denmark and 3rd place finisher Jin Daikoku have videos from the Nathan's qualifier at Arizona Mills.
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