• Video from the Lewisville, TX tamale eating contest
• Picture of a woman in the East Village of NYC attempting a 10 hot dogs in 20 minutes challenge
• Virtual burger eating contests to take place during Los Angeles Laker games to promote Carl’s Jr.
• Article about the Big Jud burger eating challenge in Idaho. Up to 30 people a day complete the challenge and they have to rotate the pictures on the Wall of Fame. (No prizes are awarded)
• Tomoko Miyake turned 25 yesterday.

• Picture of Juliet Lee at the Nashville qualifier
• Favorite KSO V pictures at Krystalist
• Kobayashi has some pictures from the Krystal Square Off on his blog
• Tomoko Miyake has posted a FAQ using questions sent by her fans (Her favorite baseball team is the Hanshin Tigers)
• Craigslist posting about Raleigh, NC wing contest Sunday

• Sonya Thomas listed as an expected entrant in the Jacksonville Krystal qualifier
• English article about faked Tomoko Miyake program.
  

  “We were vague about how we counted the plates and dishes, for instance, counting one plate with four pieces of the same dish as four dishes.”

• Denver CE meetup group resumes August 28 with a chicken nugget contest
• Buzz Bishop blog entries about Vancouver Nathan’s contest: preview, results
• Video of woman attempting Michael Phelps’ typical breakfast
• Live “Jimmy Buffett-style Music” will play during the Jacksonville Krystal qualifier according to The Hangman

Nikkan Sports reports that the magazine “Modern Weekly” is alleging that Tomoko Miyake did not actually consume all the food she appeared to eat in a Nippon Television program.

Tomoko will appear (briefly) along with the other competitors in the giant burger contest held earlier this year at the Clinton Station Diner on the History Channel’s “Evolve:Guts” at 11 pm and 3 am eastern tonight

update The Mainichi Shimbun reports that Nippon Television has apologized for the deception and attributes the inaccuracies to miscounting.

Tomoko Miyake addresses the magazine article’s claims in a blog entry which begins (according to Google Translation)

The weekly magazine article about the concern that everybody did deeply apologize for any inconvenience.

A look at the article, friends and fans worried about people from a lot of mail and messages encouraging words.

• Verdict of “misadventure” reported in UK mouth stuffing contest fatality
• Article about Chef One dumpling contest results
• Registration for La Costena jalapeno and Nugget rib contests open today
• Registration closed for CT Ribs, Myrtle Beach BBQ, Houston kolaches
• Chicago dragon noodle contest Friday
• Miss Busy Lady on diets
• Pizza Eating contest in Dover, Ohio Sunday
• Tomoko Miyake attempts a curry with ostrich egg challenge (and wears the ostrich eggshell as a hat)
• Video of big eating cat named after Gal Sone

A video clip of Tomoko Miyake’s DVD is available on youtube. The DVD was released on July 25 and is categorized as a gravure idol video so the clip may not be safe for all workplaces.

If you are sick of the summer heat, you might want to watch a video from last winter in which Tomoko Miyake went to live with a family in Hokkaido that owned a cabbage farm. Tomoko helped with the harvest by digging the cabbages out from the snow.

• Jill Stoler has a belated birthday tribute to Pat Bertoletti
• Poll about biggest eating baseball players: (1st Babe Ruth 2nd John Kruk 3rd Tommy LaSorda)
• Sonya has a commentary about the Nathan’s finals
• Furious Pete is seeking a dining partner for his attempt at the Zeus Burger at the Clinton Station Diner July 5.
• Kobyashi reports he is now in New York City
• Tomoko Miyake has an autograph signing session for her new book
  

• Article about James Howell and his performance in the New Orleans qualifier
• Jill Stoler has posted the pictures she took at the Three Brothers Pizza contest
• Video from Hartford qualifier
• Article about local Bartolini’s Meatballs qualifiers
• NY Post on Nathan’s shortening
• Kansas City hot dog contest Friday night at Tengo sed, $200 prize
• No MLE video game release this week
• Kobayashi finds Japanese hot dogs wanting
• Articles promoting Tomoko Mikaye’s book of PG rated photographs: Sanspo.com, NikkanSports

Gal Sone had a book signing in Tokyo for her autobiography today and she has a blog entry about the appearance. Tomorrow, she will sign autographs in Osaka. The autobiography is currently #131 on the amazon.co.jp rankings (The Japanese translation of the final Harry Potter book, which will be released next month, is #1)

Tomoko Miyake’s book of photographs is now available for preorder on Amazon of Japan. The release date is June 28.

update June 9 Gal Sone’s book is currently ranked #97 on Amazon of Japan, which place it on the bestseller list. A screen capture has been uploaded (click the thumbnail below).

Gal Sone’s blog has a report about today’s Osaka book signing

Yama3 went to the Tokyo autograph session.

• Short preview of New Orleans qualifier: Juris “Dr. Bigtime” Shibayama, Chris MacVicar and Steve Ulness are expected
• Final batch of bios for MLE game characters - also includes profile of bunnette and paramedic. Juliet Lee’s nickname is listed as “The Lovely”
• End of school year White Castle eating contest for Kentucky teachers. Joey Chestnut is listed as the White Castle record holder
• Pancake contest for Cincinnati area high school students - contest video
• Eating contest from Hey Arnold cartoon (Kobayashi has called Hey Arnold his favorite American TV show
• Tomoko Miyake videos on yahoo: at the department store buffet promo, wearing bikinis with friends, eating big burgers with friends

• Podcast of Crazy Legs Conti promoting the Hot Dog Safari (Crazy Legs Conti’s appearance begins around the 32 minute mark)
• Spectator report from the Carnegie Deli pickle contest
• Gallery from the Philadelphia Nathan’s qualifier
• Joey Chestnut’s hometown, Vallejo, is bankrupt
• Jill Stoler apologizes to Beautiful Brian Nation
• MLE game not coming out this week according to joystiq
• Tomoko Miyake promotes Tobu Department Store’s new buffet (blog entry)

• Steakbellie and Wild Bill have blog entries about their qualifiers today
• Furious Pete is taking suggestions about the topic of his next competitive eating article for bodybuilding.com
• Patrick Vandam was listed as the record holder for the Vermonster in a previous Wikipedia entry
• Rib eating contest at Kansas City barbecue festival Sunday
• Blog entry about Durham, NC Doughman quadrathlon
• Tomoko Miyake has posted some samples from her upcoming book of photographs
• List of the world’s saltiest foods from Paul Barlow
• Pat Bertoletti has posted videos of his ice cream record on “Regis & Kelly” and the Apple Valley qualifier to his yardbarker blog.

• AOL FanHouse responds to Canadian Catholic newspaper’s criticism of the eating contest held on Mike & Mike in the Morning (The first competitive eating post on FanHouse since Sonya Thomas oversaw a contest at a Washington Capitals game)
• Hall Hoover begins selling T shirts
• May 24 Pittsburgh Nathan’s qualifier to take place at Greensburg Sam’s Club
• Something for the 2005 commenter who wanted more posts about female Hollywood celebrities
• Pittsburgh area hot wing contest today (from “Bubba”)
• All you can eat seats at Minnesota Twins games Monday and Tuesday
• 68 year old German man, Heinz Asthoff, eats up to 12,000 calories a day without gaining weight (translated German article)
• Video of Takuya Yamamoto and Tomoko Miyake attempting eating challenges

SanSpo.com reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s autobiography will appear in bookstores on May 27. The book will contain Gal Sone’s secret to avoiding weight gain

Tomoko Miyake appears on the cover of this month’s Maruhan Press magazine. Tomoko did an event today to promote the Magazine’s release

Tomoko Miyake reports that the team burger eating contest held at the Clinton Station Diner on Super Bowl weekend will be televised on March 20. The contest will be televised by NNN news, which usually posts its competitive eating videos online.

In other Japanese contest news, R Suzuki reports that Hatsuyo Sugawara won a televised sushi eating contest. The top 5 in that contest:

1. Hatsuyo Sugawara, 107 plates
2. Takuya Yamamoto, 104 plates
3. Nobuyuki Shirota, 102 plates
4. Tomoko Miyake, 81 plates
5. Taku “Artist” Izumi, 74 plates

Tim Brown answers 10 questions on IFOCE com
Indian traveler will spend a week in Chennai to see if Dale Boone can help him get started in “Kollywood” film industry, Dale Boone advises him to watch out for poisonous frogs
Don Lerman hires 25 people to handle his fan mail
Article about March 7 Lake Tahoe sushi / extreme food contest
Video footage from 2006 NYC grilled cheese eating contest
More on Canada’s tallest man 18 pound burger attempt
Request for videos of diners eating 4 HDB in less than 2 minutes
Kana Kanisawa & friend purchase a lot of food from Seibu Department store then eat it (Part 1, Part 2)
Pictures of Tomoko Miyake’s convenience store meals from yama3 (See above)
Japanese pancake eating contest for women only - first prize is a million yen and a trip to Hawaii

Tomoko Miyake is endorsing three meals sold by SaveOn, a convenience store chain. Convenience stores are called “konbini” in Japan.

Pennlive.com has a blog entry with a picture of the 286 pound burger produced by the Clinton Station Diner that was consumed at the World’s Largest Menu Burger Eating Championship today. Contest results are not provided; they will be listed in an article on Sunday.

update nj.com has an article with results:

1) Tomoko Miyake, Takuya Yamamoto, Taku Izumi - 26.4 lb in 45 minutes
2) Ian Hickman, Elizabeth Canady, Pete Maurizio - 18.1 lb in 45 minutes
? McGowan brothers 6 lb

updated AICE news has full results and a galleries of the burger’s creation and the contest

update #2 Jill Stoler has pictures in her myspace page and a blog entry about the contest

Tomoko Miyake reports that she has made her debut as a “gravure” model Gravure models wear clothes like bathing suits and leotards. In the article about her debut, Tomoko poses next to a lot of food from Wendy’s

On Friday, Tomoko and her teammates were filmed eating hot dogs at Wind Mill hot dogs.

Tomoko Miyake reports that she, Takuya Yamamoto and Taku Izumi arrived in New York City and went to a Japanese buffet. Tomoko appreciated the lack of a time limit as Japanese buffets usually have. She will be doing a film session on Friday.

A video of the curry eating contest between Tomoko Miyake and Ian “the Invader” Hickman in higher definition than youtube videos is available. Some screen captures from the video are linked to the thumbnails above. The high definition enables viewers to determine than Ian is wearing a United Eaters of Pennsylvania hat.

Tomoko Miyake did an interview for J-Cast. She says she might follow Gal Sone in crossing over into a music career and Kana Kanisawa in releasing a DVD.

January 1908 as a gravure idol debut in the spring, the photo book and DVD are set up. Rumors debut as a singer, but now I want to work any talent?

Miyake idol at the age of 24 is called what I think (laughter). I want Food program. Spa or go to the Chick brusque things out, eat delicious. Reporter ordinary people, a lot of food has been eaten not only not even a little bit? If I go to each location that can be eaten whole. Eat all the deeper I think you can report the shops and I think people are happy. I want to do that. Full.

AICE news reports that a team consisting of Takuya Yamamoto, Tomoko Miyake and Saori Nakayama will compete against an American team at the World’s Biggest Burger Team Eating Championship. Tomoko Miyake’s blog reports that she apparently began practicing for that contest by attempting the “Dream Burger” challenge of eating a 4kg hamburger in less than 40 minutes. A video of Ms. Miyake’s attempt can be seen on stage6.com. She managed to finish about two thirds of the burger before time elapsed.

The online video site stage6.com has clips from several Japanese competitive eating programs I have not seen before. In one program, Tomoko Miyake’s buffet club goes to a restaurant and is weighed on a large group scale before they start eating. The inital weight of the five diners is 226.8 kg (499 lb). After they complete their meal, the new combined weight is 249.6 kg (549 lb), a weight gain of about 50 pounds, or 10 pounds per person.

Other videos include:

Sakura Takahashi eating more than 15 pounds of noodles

Kana Kanisawa completing several eating challenges

Tomoko Miyake defeating a pajama clad oppenent in a karaoke duel

Takuya Yamamoto finishing a large bowl of noodles.