In an eatfeats comment thread, Don “Moses” Lerman says he ate at least 30 burgers when he was the runner-up in the 2004 Memphis Krystal qualifier. His official results are listed as 21.

According to a BeautifulBrian.com article, Don Lerman also believes he should have received third place in the 2001 Nathan’s finals

• News video from the corny dog contest
• Jill Stoler has a contest report from a Brooklyn wing eating contest won by Will Millender
• MosesNews.com will stop covering competitive eating and offer political commentary and restaurant reviews
• News video from the Nashville Krystal qualifier
• Beautiful Brian has uploaded a song about the Nashville Krystal qualifier called “The Cheater” based The Who’s “The Seeker”
• Clips from Sunday’s Gluttonous King broadcast with Scandinavian subtitles

• Videos and galleries of Birmingham and Memphis Krystal qualifiers available
• Brown students attempt Spike’s hot dog challenge
• Picture from eating contest held in Beijing during the Olympics
• Don Lerman gets an impostor on his own blog
• FutureFeed sees a “glass ceiling” in the fact that only 2 of the IFOCE top 50 are females (6 of the AICE top 50 are women)

• Dallas Observer interviews Timm Dilling and veterinarian Jim Clawson
• Next UEPa meeting scheduled for R U Hungry? at State College, PA July 12 or 13
• Captain Lou Albano vs. King Kong Bundy pie eating contest from 1985 WWE Halloween Special
• Sales video for Don Lerman’s dentures
• Pat Bertoletti videos on Yardbarker: post Wing Bowl drinking with Steakbellie, Promo for Spike TV Ham & Eggs contest
• Beautiful Brian on Scozzy Bone
• Brooklyn Stinky Cheese eating contest preview
• Egg McMuffin eating contest for Bank of America interns. Megamunch’s office probably has better eaters:
  

  It took the “winner” FIFTY MINUTES to eat FOUR NON-EGG McMuffins. Pretty much makes you want to vom, doesn’t it? You’re in good company, because according to one of the overseers of the event, the “winner” just asked if he could go throw up. He was told that he loses if he does. Meaning that the other intern who ATE THREE McMUFFINS AND THEN GAVE UP would be declared the winner.

Don “Moses” Lerman has uploaded a video he made after getting some of his original teeth removed. He says he will return to competitive eating after he receives a set of dental implants.

GainsboroughRoad has uploaded some videos of the Dickey’s BBQ sandwich eating contest.

Don “Moses” Lerman announces that he is now formally receiving offers for three of his partial dentures. His asking price is $1,000 for each denture.

Lerman does not say if the dentures include the rights to whatever DNA may be found on them should a buyer be interested in creating a clone

• Beautiful Brian has expected entrants for next weekend’s contests in New York
• Cameron McKirdy has videos of the Las Vegas qualifier, including his reversal
• Don Lerman is selling his dentures for $1,000
• Article about Big Goomba pizza challenge attempt in South Carolina
• Jill Stoler and Will Millender of “Fat March” to exercise together
• Hungry Sisters report on the Hog Happenin eating contests
• Japanese article about Brooklyn Pizza contest - 2ch thread

• Gallery of Saturday’s contests in Brunswick, GA from Bruce Pobanz
• Sonya Thomas thinks the new 10 minute duration will make it difficult for her to become the first woman to break 40 HDB
• Don Lerman believes “food pervision” companies have stolen his “interlectial propery”
• Article about local competitors at Chicago Nathan’s qualifier
• Preview of the Pittsburgh Nathan’s qualifier. Brian Subich is the only listed expected entrant
• Milia Mahfoud, the only female entrant, won a pancake eating contest at the Kingsburg Swedish Heritage Festival.
• Humble Bob has some pictures of the gyro contest on his home page
• Skinnyboy had a drunk fan while he attempted a hot dog challenge
• Article about Crazy Legs Conti in the Monterey Herald
• Calendar lists New Orleans Nathan’s qualifier on June 4 (a Wednesday) at Metairie
• Jamie of Hungry Sisters will be an assistant for Hog Happenin in Lincolnton, NC, which will have some eating contests
• $175 burger containing gold flakes
• Video of pizza eating contest from G.L.O.W. wrestling between Matilda the Hun and Mount Fiji

• Spike TV graphic replaced with Acme Oyster House logo on IFOCE.com home page (cached version) MLE page on SpikeTV.com remains up (from comment)
• Don Lerman considers entering Carnegie Deli pickle contest, then decides against it
• Galleries and video of Munch Madness (Connecticut) qualifiers
• First Battle of the Bone qualifier results
• Texas eating contest reportedly faked for travel show
• Mio “Sakura” Takahashi eats 5.3 kg of curry and then is filmed with an infared camera
• Gal Sone dines with Jaycee Chan, son of Jackie
• Cartoon of Loki’s eating contest from Norse Mythology

• Kobayashi praises Juris Shibayama’s bench pressing
• Cartoons added to the Heart Attack Grill’s online wall of fame (see above) (from Dr. Jon)
• Ryan Urban, Don Lerman’s nephew, attends NY Pizza show and says his uncle can eat three pizzas in less than 5 minutes.
• Eating contest from “Meatballs” on youtube
• Iron Chef video cooking game coming for Wii

Don “Moses” Lerman reports that he will have his thyroid gland tested on Thursday. He believes his thyroid might be responsible for his weight gain and says his sister was recently diagnosed with an underactive thyroid.

Beautiful Brian announces that he has completed 6 out of a planned 11 tracks for his upcoming CD, “Stick to Blogging”, and has moved up the release date to early March. One finished track is titled “Moses is Great”, which appears to go against the critical tone of the majority of the lyrics. Brian is considering closing the CD with a “We Are the World” type of song.

The Mental Floss blog has a list of 6 restaurants and their eating challenges. A picture of Don “Moses” Lerman and “Krazy” Kevin Lipsitz is used to illustrate Pinata’s Monster Burrito challenge. Joey Chestnut is also mentioned as a finisher of the Belly Buster Pizza. There are two challenges I was not previously aware of: a Seattle 12 egg omelet (which is not free if finished under a certain time) and a spicy ice cream challenge in North Carolina. The entry has 63 comments. There are also a lot of comments on digg.

Krystal Square Off finalists offer advice on how to eat as much as possible in as short a period of time as possible in USAToday.com
The Hollywood Reporter on Super Bowl halftime viewing options
Giant sushi roll eating contest for teams of Japanese female college students
Blog entry & gallery by recent Quick Chek sub winner
Picture of Sonya Thomas & fan at Washington Capitals game
NY Daily News on Brooklyn vegan wing eating contest
Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane attempts 7 pound breakfast burrito challenge (Female burrito finishers receive free food for life)
Don “Moses” Lerman is upset about not being named a jalapeno judge
Krystal Super Bowl photo contest

All clips from The Daily Show are now free, including several about competitive eating: 2001 segment about Don Lerman by Stephen Colbert, report on 2005 Nathan’s finals, interview with Ryan Nerz to promote “Eat This Book”

There are now 15 videos on http://www.youtube.com/user/majorleagueeating I think that most if not all the videos were originally on majorleagueeating.com There are profiles of Badlands Booker, Don “Moses” Lerman and Cookie Jarvis in addition to footage of recent contests.

Don “Moses” Lerman makes the following claims in his blog:

As I reflect upon my eating carear as I said on the about Don Lerman page on my site, I invented the water technique , the first eater to use their own nick name in a contest, before that either the promoter the press or the sponser gave an eater a nickname , I change that forever!
The first eater to go out of state for a contest,the first champion to crossover to another food category, the first non Philly resident to compete in the Wing Bowl( achieving 3rd &2ndplace).

This page about Oakland, California resident Eddie “Bozo” Miller says he ate 63 apple pies at the 1961 Montana State Fair and 30 pounds of meat loaf at an undated contest in Idaho. There are probably earlier instances of eaters traveling out of state, but I have not been able to locate them.

The writer for the trivia column on creators.com was contacted by the daughter of Bozo Miller in June, who reported he was still alive despite an age of almost 100.

“Gustoff Zhychick” has emailed a video (3.0 MB 40 seconds) announcing that he will not be present at the Wing Bowl.

Don “Moses” Lerman has a blog entry about his history in the Wing Bowl and his negative experience in Wing Bowl 13. Lerman’s difficulty in entering the arena in that event is mentioned on page 185 of “Horsemen of the Esophagus” by Jason Fagone:

The media-door supplicants aren’t all pretenders. Some are even participants, like Mr. IFOCE himself, George Shea, his neatly slicked hair and sharp suit putting the Philly mooks to shame. Butter champ Don Lerman is here, too. I’m standing right next to him. I know it’s Don Lerman because it says so on his wool hat.

Don “Moses” Lerman reports that his nephew, Ryan Urban, has issued the following challenge:

Dr. Urban who off is the nephew and owner of record at Moses News .Com says ‘ I’m going to shut down Moses news .com says as an incentive and motivator if my uncle doesn’t lose 30lbs by Feb.1st He can say goodbye to MOSES NEWS .COM

Don “Moses” Lerman reports that his nephew Ryan Urban successfully completed the Triple King challenge at Fatburger. He says they will be attempting every eating challenge in the NY metro area over the next year.

Lerman has the following open letter in another post:

In the last few weeks I’ve received both fan mail and hits on my site from every corner of the globe , I want to take this time to thank my loyal fan base and readership. I promises that I will do everything in my power to shed the lbs. and compete once again , I will be a back …and thats for the record!

Several articles about competive eating from the New York Times archive which previously required payment are now available for free (in reverse chronological order)
preview of 2005 NJ pizza contest, mentions Pat Philbin
2005 Review of Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating
Short article about Kate Stelnick (she claims to have drunk 14 glasses of water while eating the 96er)
Long 2003 profile of Carson “Collard Green” Hughes
Preview of 2003 Wing Bowl, focuses on Bill “El Wingador” Simmons and “Belly” Donna Villec
Report on the 2002 pelmeni contest
2002 preview of Nathan’s finals, mainly about the Sheas
2002 article about Don Lerman, Badlands Booker & Cookie Jarvis, calls George Shea a “competitive eater since 1988″
2001 profile of Kevin Lipsitz
Article on quick start controversy at 1999 Nathan’s finals
Report on 1999 Nathan’s finals
preview of 1999 Ben’s Deli’s matzoh ball contest
1998 article about Mike DeVito, also mentions start of the IFOCE, originally the International Federation of Hot Dog Eating
1997 interview with Ed Krachie
Report on December 1996 duel between Ed Krachie and Nakajima
1996 Nathan’s final report
1995 Nathan’s finals results
Report on 1995 Nathan’s New Jersey qualifier, contest was 10 minutes long
article on 1994 Nathan’s finals, mentions Curtis Sliwa’s participation
Report on 1990 Nathan’s, says Jay Green & Mike DeVito tied for first place
Preview of 1987 Nathan’s, registrations were still being accepted by phone on July 3
Report on 1984 women’s only pancake contest

In a post titled “I Created the Monster”, Don “Moses” Lerman remembers the first time he met Pat Bertoletti before a Krystal qualifier in Knoxville, TN:

ON ROUTE TO KNOXVILLE I HAD A STOP OVER AT NATIONAL AIRPORT IN WASH. D.C I RAN INTO PAT AND INTRODUCED MYSELF TO HIM , HE WAS VERY TIRED AND WENT TO SLEEP ON THE BENCH INTHE TERMINAL . AS THE CALL ALL ABOARD THE AIRLINE WAS CALLED BERTELETI WAS IN A A DEEP SLEEP , I COULD HAVE LET HIM LIE THERE AND WALK AWAY WITH THE CONTEST , BUT IN THE INTEREST OF FAIR PLAY AND GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP I’LL WAKE HIM UP …. HE WENT ON TO BEAT ME BY A SMALL MARGIN IT WA S THE START OF HIS CAREAR AND THE END OF MINE

From MosesNews.com

DON LERMAN AND HIS GIRLFRIEND SHARON WAS INVOLVED IN A SERIOUS AUTO ACCIDENT FRIDAY NIGHT HIS CAR HIT IN THE REAR THE FRAME LOOKS LIKE ITS BENT BEYOND REPAIR. LERMAN AND HIS GIRLF FRIEND SPENT THE NIGHT A NUMC HOSPITAL WHICH SUPPLIED THE WORST CARE POSSIBLE LERMAN MAY HAVE A CONCUSSION AND POSSIBLY BROKEN NECK AS WELL AS BURST BLOOD VESSEL IN HIS EYE , TOMORROW LERMAN AND HIS GIRL FRIEND WILL SEEK FURTHER MEDICAL CARE

Let’s hope Don & Sharon have no permanent injuries & return to good health as soon as possible.

New York led has a good photograph of the audience at this year’s Nathan’s finals at http://www.flickr.com/photos/new-yorkled/719179402/ You can see some people wearing hot dog hats (probably Don Lerman & friends)