(This is for the commenter who complained that I was not writing enough about female celebrities last fall 😉 )

(from cluckbucket.com) The Sofia News agency reports that Bulgarian TV personality and ex-gymnast Nelly Atanassova won a charity chicken wings eating contest.

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The News of Delaware County has a profile of two competitors from that region, Eric “MacWing” Livingston and Scott “Boss Hog” Zimmerman.

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The Queen Mary website has a page about Saturday’s chili cheese fries contest. The list of expected entrants includes the top two finishers in last Friday’s Wing Bowl 14, Joey Chestnut and Rich LeFevre, along with Southern California’s top eater, Jed Donahue. Sonya Thomas is not listed as one of the expected competitors. Garret Morris, a member of the original Saturday Night Live cast, will compete in a celebrity sausage eating contest.

Updated 2/9 9:48 am The LA Times has a brief preview of the contest

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Wing Tut is undeterred by his disqualification from Wing Bowl 14 and looks to continue in competitive eating. He is seeking the Guinness jalapeno record which is claimed to be 8 in one minute. It is difficult to see how this could be listed as a record when Jed Donahue has consumed 152 jalapeno peppers in 15 minutes, an average of over 10 a minute for a quarter of an hour.

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“Beautiful” Brian Seiken has the fourth episode of his TV series available. Allen “Shredder” Goldstein is the main phone interview. The Shredder describes his frustrations with qualifying for Nathan’s in 2005. There is also a shorter phone interview with Cookie Jarvis. Footage from the grilled cheese contest at Planet Hollywood is aired in which Charles Hardy, Crazy Legs Conti, Sonya Thomas and others appear.

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Wing Bowl 14 clips are available at ripe.tv A show about Wing Bowl 14 will be aired at 11 pm on Saturday on UPN 57 in the Philadelphia TV market. The WIP website has podcasts of the audio broadcast along with some pictures.

The new poll question asks who should play Sonya Thomas (or a Sonya Thomas based character) if that role exists in the upcoming Wing Bowl movie.

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Wing Bowl 14 contestant Wing Tut has an account of his participation in that event in his blog. He believes that he did not receive credit for 21 wings that he ate. More on Wing Tut can be found here.

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Angelo Cataldi has a long commentary about Wing Bowl 14 on his website. The most interesting point in his writeup is that the next Wing Bowl will lose its “virginity”:

There was no close finish in WB14, unlike the last two overtime events. Next year, when the other previous contestants rejoin the field, this should not be a problem.

Other notable points include:

• The FCC would not allow WIP to restrict the field to Delaware Valley residents.
• The Wachovia Center would not let Wing Bowl 14 occur there if tickets were not required
• Crowd scenes for the Wing Bowl movie were filmed at the contest
• Cataldi is disappointed in the performance of the most hyped locals like Robocop

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Philly.com describes how Joey Chestnut met his girlfriend.

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The three names above are consecutive entries in Wikipedia’s list of famous Korean Americans. Ward’s Korean background is described in this article from Yahoo sports. Golf phenom Michelle Wie’s stated goal is to beat all the men, but she has yet to back up her words with actions to the extent Sonya has.

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610 WIP is sending a cease and desist letter claiming trademark infringement to the Columbus radio station sponsoring a Wing Bowl. They could rename their event the Wing HorseShoe after the Ohio State stadium. No legal action is apparently being taken against the Salt Lake City Wing Bowl.

An excerpt about Wing Bowl 13 mentioning documentarian Jennifer Drumgoole from Jere Longman’s book about the 2004-5 Eagles is available at foxsports.com

angelocataldi.com has a photogallery of Wing Bowl 14.

Some pictures from that gallery include:

You can’t spell Team Chestnut without chest
The White Widow
Joey’s Wingette at work
Black Death
The Special Canadians
Dave the Dumpster
Wing Tut
Norseboy
Black Death #2
Burger King? 😉

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Pat Bertoletti has found photo galleries for two contests:

Jan 14 Hot Springs Corned Beef: http://www.freshsquid.com/BeefWeb/

November Krystal Square Off contest: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0511/gallery.competitve.eaters/content.1.1.html

Ken Wong notes that a five minute IFOCE video is available from Google video

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=competitive+eating&so=0

(The Cookie Jarvis basketball & 2005 grilled cheese finals video can also be accessed with this link)

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sfgate.com has a profile of Joey Chestnut and an interview with his mother.

The Vallejo Times Herald has an article about local boy Joey Chestnut.

The Philadelphia Daily News has a contest writeup.

The Delaware County Times has a contest writeup focusing on the contestants from Delaware County.

The Daily Local has a profile of Timothy “Dr. Slob” Cusick

The Courier Post has an article focusing on the entrants from South Jersey. 10 competitors were from South New Jersey, 5 more than Philadelphia

The Courier Post also has an anti Wing Bowl commentary.

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Here are all the results I am aware of. Any additional results would be appreciated

1. Joey Chestnut 173 wings
2. Rich LeFevre 156 wings
3. Dr. WingLove 114 wings
4. ?
5. ?
6. MacWing 105 wings
7.-25. ?

If you picked 41+ wings as the gap between Chestnut/LeFevre and the rest of the field in the recent poll, you were correct.

Dr. WingLove threw up in his corn eating stunt and needed to win the WingOff to make the Wing Bowl, where he was the highest finishing local.

It is nice to see Rich LeFevre was a crowd favorite. Philly fans have not always been as kind to sub 150 pounders from out of town.

The LA times has a good article on the Wing Bowl.

philly.com has a Wing Bowl article with more information about the planned Wing Bowl movie.

The Courier Post has an article focusing on South Jersey entrants.

Yahoo has a photo gallery.

Philadelphia Weekly has an article with several pictures (adult content)

SFist has a blog entry

MacWing has sent me three pictures he took as a contestant.

Rich LeFevre meditating

MacWing and Dr. WingLove

MacWing and Joey Chestnut

Two other Wing Bowls will be held this week. (I am surprised that the term Wing Bowl is not trademarked.)

Gentleman Joe Menchetti won the Columbus Wing Bowl. Menchetti has lost 60 pounds in the past year.

A Salt Lake City Wing Bowl will be held tomorrow. The “Wingettes” for that event will probably be less scantily clad than the Philly Wingettes.

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Liz and Krista have posted their article and photo gallery of Wednesday’s Grilled Cheese Bowl. A few interesting facts from their article:

• Sonya was interviewed by 20/20 at the contest. I do not think she will appear on tonight’s episode
• Cookie Jarvis will not appear on the “The Biggest Loser”
• Eaters were required to use Planet Hollywood’s cups, clearing up the mystery about Humble Bob’s banned cups
• Tim “Eater X” Janus will appear on MTV’s True Life which will air February 22
• Sonya considers Ron Koch one of her top four rivals

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Joey Chestnut (not Chestnutt) has set a Wing Bowl record with 173 wings beating Sonya’s record from Wing Bowl 12 by two wings. Rich LeFevre was second. LeFevre was apparently a crowd favorite. The arena was apparently only half full despite the sellout.

Updated 12:02 pm
nbc10 has a video and slideshow
kyw has a slideshow
philly.com has a video of the first half of the contest (real player required)
humblebob.com has some pictures on his main page

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Philly.com’s Early World blog, written by Peter Mucha, is posting from the Wing Bowl this morning. El Wingador has just been inducted into the Wing Bowl Hall of Fame.

Updated 9:04 am: The liveblogger is not bothering to blog the actual contest. He has listed the second round advancers. Joey Chestnut and Rich LeFevre are leading.

9:20 Comments on the blog have
1. Joey Chestnut 173
2. Rich LeFevre 156
3. Dr. WingLove 114

Note to philly.com: “liveblogging” does not mean write the article then get around to blogging when and if you can find time for it.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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Things did not work out very well for the last person to equate a monkey with a diminutive professional athlete from Washington, DC. After that analogy was made, the 1983-84 Redskins were destroyed in the Super Bowl. Is this an omen for Sonya in the Grilled Cheese Bowl tomorrow? 😉

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Philly.com reports that a documentary of Sonya Thomas at last year’s Wing Bowl filmed by Jenny Drumgoole will be screened at the Philadelphia University of the Arts Wednesday morning.

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Liz Kellermeyer, author of an excellent article on December’s meatball contest, will report on Wednesday’s goldenpalace.com grilled cheese finals. She has posted a preview of the event and is requesting readers submit questions they would like her to ask the eaters.

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