Campus Socialite has a long report on Saturday's Collegiate Competitive Eating League National Championship.
UMD wins Collegiate Competitive Eating League National Championship
The University of Maryland won today’s Collegiate Competitive Eating League National Championship. Other teams came from Hofstra and New York University. Ben “El Diablo” Kastner was named Most Valuable Eater. Campus Food UMD has a gallery.
The St. John's Dining facebook has a gallery of the Nathan's hot dog eating contest held on Tuesday.
FoxSports.com has a video produced for Fuel TV's The College Experiment about the collegiate division of the USquare National Food Court Eating Championship held Super Bowl weekend in Madison, WI. (via NCCEA twitter)
ABC 7 News did a segment about the University of Maryland competitive eating team today.
The 1st Annual Collegiate Competitive Eating League National Championship will take place at the Cornerstone Grill & Loft in College Park, MD on April 16. Colleges will need to assemble teams of 10 eaters to compete.
The facebook for Krazi Kebob in College Park, MD announces that ABC will be covering an appearance by University of Maryland's competitive eating team tonight.
WUSA 9 has a video of the University of Maryland competitive eating team at Ratsie's in College Park, MD tonight. update The Washington Post has an article about the contest won by Phil Fiore announcing an intercollegiate contest in College Park on April 16. A slideshow and video are also available.
NewsObserver.com has an article and gallery about this morning's Krispy Kreme Challenge. The event took place in 35 degree rain, which might have helped with "predunking" the donuts. update Results are available on krispykremechallenge.com Jeffrey Glick won with a time of 29:31. 2010 winner Eric Mack was the runner-up. (.PDF results)
A press release announces that the Krispy Kreme Challenge is no longer accepting entrants after reaching its capacity of 7,500 participants. The event entails running two miles starting at the NC State bell tower, eating a dozen donuts and returning. An article in the NC State student paper has a training tips for competitors.
The facebook for the National Food Court and Wisconsin Collegiate Eating Championship announces that footage from the February 5 contest will be recorded for an upcoming episode The College Experiment on Fox Sports & Fuel TV.
In a response to a twitter question, Bonnie Bernstein of ESPN says she would not only have joined a collegiate competitive eating team if it existed when she was a gymnast at the University of Maryland, she claims she would have been a four time national champion in eating. update A facebook page about the team has been started.
The University of Maryland competitive eating team's appearance on CSN Washington last night can be viewed online. (via Josh Weissman)
The facebook for the University of New Mexico announces that Man vs. Food is looking for a UNM student with the first or last name Travis to attempt the 6 pound Travis on a Silver Platter burrito at K & I Diner.
The Los Angeles Times has an article about the "Beef Bowl" prime rib eating contest held at Lawry's in Beverly Hills for members of Rose Bowl teams which reports that TCU defeated Wisconsin in this year's contest 670 pounds to 650. In the Brazilian buffet contest for Chick-fil-A Bowl teams, South Carolina defeated FSU 3.19 pounds / person to 3.1.
TarHeelFootball reports players from the University of North Carolina football team defeated players from the University of Tennessee in the Music City Bowl pre-game rib eating contest 58 ribs to 55. Quinton Alton of UNC was the individual winner with 21 ribs in 2 minutes.
b michael and sady doyle have sketched out a competitive eating film called Eating Harvard. Projected actors for the movie include Bill Murray, Robert Downey, Jr., Amy Poehler and Method Man & Redman.
Comcast Sports Net in Washington, DC and Baltimore will have a segment about the University of Maryland's competitive eating team tonight at 10.
The Boise Humanitarian Bowl has replaced its pre-game beef eating contest with a bowling match between members of the competing teams.
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion held a pair of latke eating contests in Los Angeles and Jerusalem. Marina Tecktiel had the best performance in both contests with a total of 25 latkes in 7 minutes.
The University of Maryland student paper has an article about the new competitive eating club team. Phil Fiore, winner of the 2009 Whiz Bowl cheesesteak eating contest, is one of the members. The club's ultimate goal is to have a national championship in May.
The Tennessean reports that 22 members of Kappa Alpha at Rhodes College in Memphis were suspended from the fraternity after a pledge competing in an ice cream eating experienced frostbite.
Registration is now open for the 2011 Krispy Kreme Challenge on February 5 in Raleigh, NC is now open. Previous races had over 5000 competitors attempt to run 4 miles and eat a dozen donuts.
Norman Chad, poker commentator for ESPN, has a column in the Washington Post decrying the University of Maryland's competitive eating team. (I would assume gambling has ruined more lives than competitive eating, but I do not have exact statistics.)
The ESPN SportCenter blog has an interview with Keith Solomon, the founder of the new competitive eating club at the University of Maryland, who says that Juliet Lee is the inspiration for the club.
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