Archive for February, 2006

Various Wing Bowl links

February 3, 2006 at 1:11 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Philadelphia, Wing Bowl 14

The Delaware County Times has some short profiles of the Delaware County Wing Bowl entrants.

phillyburbs.com profile of Ken “Wingmaster” Ronan

Wing Tut’s blog

Adam “Hungry Hungry Hebrew” Taxin’s New Orleans charity website

Rich “The Locust” LeFevre’s competition history

Joey Chestnut’s competition history

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Wing Bowl Eve notes

February 2, 2006 at 8:45 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Philadelphia, Wing Bowl 14

610 WIP has announced its Wing Bowl odds and lists Rich LeFevre as the fourth biggest favorite behind Joey Chestnut, Robocop and Freak of Nature in the Wing Bowl at 5 to 1 odds. If you can find someone who will give you those odds on Rich, you might want to consider making that bet.

The Wing Bowl weigh-in will be at 5 pm today at Chickie’s & Pete’s sports bar.

The Pottstown Mercury has a profile on Dave “The Dumpster” Moya, who received a pep rally yesterday.

The sports prof has a commentary on the Wing Bowl.

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Wing Bowl supplier

February 1, 2006 at 7:55 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Philadelphia, Wing Bowl 14

The Philadelphia City Paper has an article on the official supplier of wings for the Wing Bowl, the Rib Ranch. That restaurant supplies the contest with smaller than normal wings with mild barbeque sauce to maximize the amount of wings eaten. Some competitors buy buckets of 50 wings to practice. The owner of the Rib Ranch claims that “The contestants always say the wings are great.”

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GoldenPalace.com grilled cheese bowl results

February 1, 2006 at 12:01 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, GoldenPalace.com Grilled Cheese Contest, New York City, Sonya Thomas

Thanks Bubba Yarbrough, Liz & Eater X

updated 2:43 pm, full results added

Liz has posted some pictures on her blog

Update 7:41 pm CBS has a short article on the contest.

Updated 2/2 8:05 am
J$ of velvet-sea.blogspot.com has a contest writeup with several pictures and a video of the pickle undercard between Brian Seiken and Kevin Lipsitz.

12:05 pm Al-Jazeera.net also has an article on the contest.

4:32 pm goldenpalace.com has an article, gallery and video of the contest

Humble Bob also has a gallery.

1st 26 $8000 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas Alexandria, VA
2nd 25.5 $4000 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut San Jose, CA
3rd 24 $2350 Patrick Bertoletti Chicago, IL
4th 20.75 $1500 “Humble” Bob Shoudt Royersford, PA
5th 20 $1000 Rich “The Locust” LeFevre Henderson, NV
6th 19.5 $900 Tim “Eater X” Janus New York City, NY
7th 19 $800 Eric “Badlands” Booker Copaigue, NY
8th 15 $600 Ed “Cookie” Jarvis Nesconsett, NY
8th 15 $600 Ron Koch Las Vegas, NV
10th 14 $250 “Crazy Legs” Conti New York City, NY
11th 11 Hall “Pretty Boy” Hunt Orange Park, FL

Congratulations to all competitors. Sonya has now won 4 of the last 5 contests, facing Joey Chestnut in all of them. Pat Bertoletti shows that his victory over Sonya and Joey was no fluke with a close third place. Good Luck to Joey, Rich and all the other Wing Bowl entrants Friday.

I am curious to hear how the sandwiches compared to the sandwiches in the qualifiers and how Charles Hardy’s rule limiting sandwich immersion to 5 seconds affected times.

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Third competitive eating book?

February 1, 2006 at 9:01 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Media

Stephen Thompson, former editor of the Onion’s AV Club section, has considered writing a book about competitive eating. If he undertakes that project, it would be the third upcoming book about competitive eating with two books slated for release in April and June.

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