Eric “Badlands” Booker category

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2012 May 192nd30 10 minNathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Qualifier - men Atlantic City, NJ
2012 Apr 144th60 6 minThe Isle Waterloo World Cupcake Eating Championship Waterloo, IA
2012 Mar 175th9.25 10 minTooJay's World Class Corned Beef Eating Championship - professionals Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Badlands Booker has uploaded a segment from the Travel Channel's Battles on the Beach about the 2004 lobster eating contest in Kennebunkport, Maine won by Sonya Thomas.
Eric "Badlands" Booker has started a new web site at http://badlandsbooker.me/
Eric "Badlands" Booker has a video of him drinking 1.5 liters of "purple stuff" in 9 seconds.
IFOCE.com has an interview with Eric "Badlands" Booker about his new CD, Big Man Mentality.
Eric "Badlands" Booker's new CD Big Man Mentality is now available for purchase.
Gourmet.com has a Guide to Thanksgiving Overeating by Eric "Badlands" Booker. (via twitter)
Meredith Boxberger became the first woman to finish the 7.5 pound Kookamonga burger today at Kooky Canuck in Memphis with a time of 40:40. Eric "Badlands" Booker also finished the burger with a time of 37:10. The Kooky Canuck lockerz gallery has some pictures.
Eric "Badlands" Booker has uploaded a video of him drinking a half gallon of Gatorade in 14 seconds.
Newsday has an article about Long Island competitive eaters featuring Eric "Badlands" Booker, Patrick "The Viper" Viviano, Mike "The Real Skinny" Hoffman, Allen "Shredder" Goldstein and Paul "Porkslap" Arcaria. (via Badlands Booker).
Eric "Badlands" Booker has started a new website at http://www.badlandsbooker.me/ and will be releasing a new CD titled Big Man Mentality on Thanksgiving. IFOCE.com also has a new article about Booker.
Eric "Badlands" Booker's appearance at K104 this morning to promote tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier in Fishkill, NY can be viewed online.
With one qualifier left, it appears that at least one Nathan's finals streak will be broken. Crazy Legs Conti has competed in the last nine Nathan's finals and I believe that Eric "Badlands" Booker has appeared in all Nathan's finals he has attempted to qualify for since 1997. (Booker took a hiatus in 2007.) The only way both Conti and Booker could reach the finals is if they both exceed 37 hot dogs in Saturday's qualifier in Fishkill, NY.
The MLE twitter reports that Bob Shoudt, Tim Janus and Eric "Badlands" Booker and former bunnette Laura Leu will compete in tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier in Queens.
Eric "Badlands" Booker's facebook page announces that he will appear at the Nathan's qualifier at the NY Mets ballpark in Queens on Saturday.
Adam Richman has posted a picture of his appearance with Eric "Badlands" Booker on Martha Stewart radio today.
Eric "Badlands" Booker announces he will appear with Adam Richman on Martha Stewart Living Radio on satellite radio on Monday.

2010 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest field

(Bumped & Modified originally posted June 27)

The following people won a slot in the 2010 Nathan’s finals by winning a qualifier. The second column is the number of hot dogs eaten in the qualifier (click on the names to see their contest history)

2010 May 6 29 “Big” Ben Monson Las Vegas, NV
2010 May 8 38.5 Eric “Badlands” Booker Foxborough (Boston), MA
2010 May 8 18 Bryan “Big Sexy” Beard San Jose, CA
2010 May 15 23 Peter “Pretty Boy” Davekos East Hartford, CT
2010 May 15 28 Tim “Gravy” Brown Newnan, GA
2010 May 29 40 “Notorious” Bob Shoudt Atlantic City, NJ
2010 Jun 5 29 Erik “The Red” Denmark Tempe, AZ
2010 Jun 6 12 Andrew Bosque Virginia Beach, VA
2010 Jun 12 34 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas Norfolk, VA
2010 Jun 13 23.5 Sean “Flash” Gordon Thackerville, OK
2010 Jun 19 13 Kristopher Adams Fayetteville, NC
2010 Jun 19 30 Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti Charlotte, NC
2010 Jun 26 46 Tim “Eater X” Janus Queens, NY
2010 Jun 26 25 Crazy Legs Conti Escondido, CA
2010 Jun 26 28.25 Juliet Lee Fishkill, NY

Allen Goldstein received a slot by leading the wild card standings. Here are the wild card standings according to results in the eatfeats datbase (qualifier winners not listed):

2010 May 8 28.75 Allen “Shredder” Goldstein Foxborough (Boston), MA
2010 May 15 27 “Jammin” Joe LaRue Newnan, GA
2010 May 29 25 “Buffalo” Jim Reeves Atlantic City, NJ
2010 Jun 5 25 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan Tempe, AZ
2010 May 29 24.5 Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin Atlantic City, NJ
2010 Jun 26 24 Micah “Wing Kong” Collins Fishkill, NY
2010 Jun 5 22 Damon “The Omen” Wells Tempe, AZ
2010 Jun 26 21 Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski Queens, NY
2010 May 29 20 Dave “U. S. Male” Goldstein Atlantic City, NJ

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923now.radio.com has a video and slideshow of Eric "Badlands" Booker's appearance on "Rollin w/ Nick Cannon" this morning where he coached Sarah Lee on how to eat 10 Nathan's hot dogs.
Youtube has a video for Summer (RU Ready), the first single of Badlands Booker's new EP Surf & Stillwell. The song can be purchased in MP3 and CD single format.
Eric "Badlands" Booker will appear on the CBS Early Show tomorrow morning before he competes in the clam eating contest at Pete's Clam Bar.

Badlands Booker video wins 3rd place & $25K in GoDaddy contest

GoDaddy.com lists the top 3 entries in its Indianapolis 500 commercial contest. The video in which Eric “Badlands” Booker played the rapping proprietor of a gourmet grocery store finished third and received a $25,000 prize. The New York Times media decoder blog mentions the video.

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Badlands Booker raps on ExploreLI.com

Eric “Badlands” Booker did a rap on ExploreLI to promote the Memorial Day clam eating contest at Peter’s Clam Bar in Island Park, NY.

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Go Daddy has produced a video listing the 10 finalists of its commercial contest, and Eric "Badlands" Booker is one of them.
Eric "Badlands" Booker has submitted a video to GoDaddy.com's Super Bowl video contest.
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