ESPN.com has a guide to Joey Chestnut's refrigerator.
Archive for July, 2009
SportsMediaNews reports that all five previous Nathan's broadcasts from 2004-2008 will be rerun on ESPNU on July 3 between midnight and 5 am eastern.
The website for Life magazine has a gallery of Joey Chestnut.
Canadian wins Independence Burger Contest in DC
update #3 MyFoxDC has a video – Dale Boone was second w/ 11 burgers, Joe Menchetti 3rd
update #2 WTOP has an article
update The winner of this afternoon’s Z-burger eating contest has been posted: guyfromva: burger eating contest over- won by furious pete with 14 burgers in 10 minutes… now enjoying one myself #dc
GuyFromVA is posting pictures from the Z-Burger contest. Dale Boone, and Joel Podelsky & Jay Gorman are competing.
The krystalist twitter announces that information about Krystal Square Off VI will be posted on http://twitter.com/ksquareoff tomorrow.
chicago.metromix.com: A one minute jalapeno contest will be held in Chicago on July 5. The winner will receive $200 and a slot in the IFOCE jalapeno contest in September.
The Charlotte Observer has an interview with Keatin “Thunder†Shelton, the runner up in last year's Apple Ugly eating contest in Faith, NC.
Zoe Yang, who will serve as a Bunnette after participating in Bunnette bootcamp, has a blog at zoehasappetite.blogspot.com
http://twitter.com/BadlandsBooker/: The Nathan's weigh in will be today at Herald Square at 1 PM. Previous weigh-ins were held on July 3.
Top 5 IFOCE payouts according to Forbes
Forbes.com has a slideshow of the five IFOCE events from the past year with the largest payouts (prize money and apparance fees):
- Krystal Square Off $75,000 ($50,000 in prizes)
- Nathan’s $60,000 ($20,000 in prizes)
- P’Zone Chow-lenge $50,000 (no announced prizes)
- Stroehmann’s Sandwich Slamm $10,000 ($10,000 in prizes)
- Harrah’s Louisiana Downs World Grits Eating Championship $10,000 ($10,000 in prizes)
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, who competed in the Nathan's finals in the 1990s, has a short documentary about the contest on his website.
KOAA has an article about Marco "Mongo" Marquez.
The Silver Stars of the WNBA are planning on having a hot dog consuming contest at Friday's game and are debating whether the hot dogs will be consumed in solid or liquid form.
Thrillist reports that two WLOCE members will compete in tomorrow's contest at Z-Burger. If Dale Boone is one of the competitors, hopefully things will go better for him that in his last Washington, DC contest when he vomited jambalaya on Sonya Thomas and needed attention from an EMT.
Forbes.com has two articles about competitive eating, a profile of Joey Chestnut and an analysis of Major League Eating as a business. Eric Gatoff, CEO of Nathan's, says his company spends in "the high six figures" on the Nathan's finals and its qualifier circuit.
(Via sportsradiointerviews, which has a partial transcript) Joey Chestnut & Crazy Legs Conti were the guests ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike show and a podcast of their segment can be downloaded. A gallery of their appearance today at ESPN Cafe today is also available. update A video podcast of the appearance, which was replayed on the 6 PM Sportcenter, is also available.
The twipic page for the group uhhuhhermusic have pictures of two of the members' attempts at big bowls of noodles (Picture #2). (It is not mentioned if they finished them)Joel Stein has a column for ESPN.com's Page 2 about his attempt to consume 9,000 calories in a day as Tour de France competitors do.
Pat Bertoletti has posted a video of a 2007 practice session that was witnessed by a giant inflatable man (presumably a likeness of radio host Steve Dahl)
Philly.com has a paragraph on Micah "Wing Kong" Collins qualifying for the Nathan's finals.
Joey Chestnut's chat on ESPN.com has just started. Crazy Legs Conti is also participating.
The Boston Herald has an article on Pete "Pretty Boy" Davekos' return to the Nathan's finals. update Erin Wigger has posted a picture of Davekos. update #2 A podcast of an interview with Davekos on KISS 108 FM is available.
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