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| 2012 Mar 11 | 1st | 13 | 1 min | Grilled Cheese Sandwich Eating Contest | Austin, TX |
| 2012 Feb 3 | 1st | 337 | 30 min | Wing Bowl 20 | Philadelphia, PA |
| 2011 Nov 23 | ? | 7.5 | 10 min | Takeru Kobayashi turkey record attempt | Manhattan, NY |
Takeru Kobayashi appears in a recent College Humor video (language may not be safe for work.)
Takeru Kobayashi will compete against a team of five Chicago Now bloggers in an Italian beef eating contest in Chicago on Friday.
Totally Driven TV has a report on Takeru Kobayashi's appearance at Harrah's Philadelphia today where he broke two record: he broke his previous cheesesteak record of 24 seconds by 0.4s and a new Harrah's Food Challenge record (1:52) consisting of a cannoli from Varallo, a 10” Margherita pizza from Caffe Napoli and macaroni & cheese from BarleyQue. (video) update May 13 DelCo Times has a report from the event and timed Kobayashi's cheesesteak attempt at 24.7 seconds.
Takeru Kobayashi appears in a new video promoting Eight O'Clock Coffee where he drank 42 cups. Comedian Jim Breuer, formerly of Saturday Night Live, served as co-host.
Philebrity reports that Takeru Kobayashi will be at the renaming ceremony for Harrah's Philadelphia (formerly Harrah's Chester) on Friday and will attempt to break his cheesesteak record. Tony Luke will also create a 20 foot long cheesesteak for the occasion.
Kobayashi to compete in Crif Dog Classic in NYC July 4
(via Darren Rovell) CrifDogClassic.com has a press release announcing that Takeru Kobayashi will compete in a hot dog eating contest at Roberta’s in Brooklyn on July 4. Other listed competitors are Stephanie Torres, Tom Gilbert, Johnnie Excel, Dave “US Male” Goldstein and Brad Sciullo. No prizes or qualifiers are listed; two entrants will be selected using reddit.com. The competition will be streamed on SI.com.
Takeru Kobayashi announces that he will attend the NFL draft tonight. (It is ironic that a big advocate of competitors' freedom would endorse a mechanism that restricts the rights of performers.)
Takeru Kobayashi claimed a world record after eating 25 peeps in 30 seconds at the Buzzfeed office. update Pat Bertoletti has a video of him eating 30 peeps in under 35 seconds.
Takeru Kobayashi will appear at minor league baseball games in Schaumburg, IL on May 26 and Gary, Indiana on May 27.
Yahoo's PostGame has a report on Kobayashi at the South-By-Southwest festival in Austin where he dined with Greg Jennings of the Green Bay Packers and an unnamed venture capitalist. Kobayashi claimed he ate his first non-competitive hot dog at the event. (He dined with Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner at Gray's Papaya hot dog stand in 2008.)
Takeru Kobayashi thanks everyone who has sent him birthday wishes. (He turns 34 today.)
Takeru Kobayashi ate 13 grilled cheese sandwiches in a minute at SXSW in Austin today and claimed a world record (video)
Takeru Kobayashi will appear at The Foodspotting SXSW Street Food Fest 2012 in Austin on Saturday. He will be competing against a group in a one minute grilled cheese eating contest.
A picture of the Nathans' Famous wall of fame with Kobayashi can still be viewed on the official facebook for the restaurant chain. The wall was redone last year to remove Kobayashi's image.
The Yeshiva University website has a blog entry about Takeru Kobayashi's appearance last night where he helped at a giant hamantaschen in honor of Purim. The event was organized by Yeshiva's Stern College for Women Chemistry Club.
A trailer for the upcoming documentary "Being: Takeru Kobayashi" containing footage from Wing Bowl 20 is available. Via twitter.com/FreeKobayashi
Guinness World Records reports that Takeru Kobayashi broke the Guinness record for eating a 12 inch pizza with a time of 69.36 seconds.
The Atlantic has a good article about Takeru Kobayashi facing off against Bill "El Wingador" Simmons in Wing Bowl 20. The article incorrectly says it will be their first meeting; they both competed in the Glutton Bowl and the 2004 Nathan's finals.
Takeru Kobayashi will be answering questions at 3pm eastern about the Wing Bowl on ustream.tv. update a video of Kobayashi's appearance is available
CBS Philly has a preview of the Wing Bowl focusing on Takeru Kobayashi, Bill "El Wingador" Simmons and Jon Squibb describing the three "in tremendous physical shape, like highly tuned athletes". The falsehood that Kobayashi has never competed in a wing eating contest is repeated.
@WingBowl20, the official Wing Bowl twitter for WIP, retweeted the following: "#America>Japan. #KobayashiSucks" update Jan 27 The retweeting appears to have been undone.(original post) update Jan 27 #2 WIP has emails that it believes the Wing Bowl twitter was hacked and says that it "will be excited to have Takeru Kobayashi participating in Wing Bowl 20 and we have the utmost respect for him"
Philly.com has an article about Takeru Kobayashi participating in Wing Bowl 20 in which Joey Chestnut asks if he will be a wingette.
Spreadshirt has a line of Kobayashi T-shirts with a Philadelphia theme.
Kobayashi announces that he set a Guinness record on the Wendy Williams Show this morning by eating 14 Twinkies in one minutes. (video | gallery)
Takeru Kobayashi has posted a link to a Chinese website that has videos of Japanese competitive eating shows including Food Battle Club. There is also a Japanese segment about the 2001 Nathan's finals (video with 13:04 duration)
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