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SportsTVRating has the viewership numbers for Saturday's televised sports. The rating for the live Nathan's brpadcast on ESPN2 was 0.4 (highest of the day) and the audience was 1,129,000 (second to primetime NASCAR race). The combined audience for the 4 showings of the finals on July 4 ws 2.38 million.
Patrick Bertoletti attempted to consume 120 raw eggs on tonight's episode of America's Got Talent. update The Chicago Tribune has an article
NJ.com catches up with Bill "El WIngador" Simmons, who is attempting to rebuild his life after being released from prison about a month ago. The five time Wing Bowl winner He served two years of a seven year sentence for cocaine distribution and will be on parole until September 2018. He hopes to write a book about his experience.
Hot Dog 148th anniversary / “Little Arlene” photoshop
Today is the 48th anniversary of an event held at Nathan’s Famous Coney Island location on June 30, 1967 to commemorate the centennial of the invention of the hot dog in 1867. The UPI reported that Walter Paul ate 127 hot dogs in an hour at that celebration. This is the first Nathan’s hot dog eating contest that can be found in online news archives.
Research has not been able to turn up any more information about the competition, but a picture taken at that event of a bathing-suit clad model holding a plate of hot dogs has been circulating on social media. I have not been able to determine the name of the model or the original image source.
A modified version of this image was used in ESPN’s documentary about the St. Louis Spirits of the ABA to illustrate big-eating “Little Arlene”, a halftime performer for that franchise. (direct link to image in youtube video.) I doubt the woman was Arlene, but I have never seen a picture of her.
"Nacho Extreme", the competitive eater on Wahlburgers, is being sued for failing to deliver a script to Mark Wahlburg after he received $1000 to perform that service.
The 2015 broadcast schedule for the men's Nathan's finals is now available. The contest will be live on ESPN2 at noon and then rerun seven more times on July 4. It does not appear the women's contest will be televised.
ilonggo Tech Blog has a review of the new competitive eating game Warriors of Nom Nom for iPhone/iPad and Android devices.
ESPN SportsCenter will be broadcast from Coney Island the morning of July 4 on ESPN2 to promote the Nathan's finals.
The schedule for the ESPN family of channels is now available for July 4, 2015. The men's Nathan's contest will be live on ESPN2 starting at noon and be rerun at 1pm, 2pm and 4pm (on ESPN) that afternoon. For the fifth straight year, the women's contest will not be televised on a cable channel; it does not currently appear on the ESPN3.com July 4 streaming schedule. (The ESPN3 schedule does list Ultimate Disc League and cricket competitions).
Mary Bowers appeared on the lastest episode of The Josh Wolf Show on CMT and presided over a hot dog contest.
Carlene LeFevre appeared on yesterday's episode of MTV's Girl Code to offer some competitive eating tips and preside over a hot dot eating contest. (video)
A trailer is available for Warriors of Nom Nom, a competitive eating game for iPhone/iPad. (via Indie Game Magazine)
CBS Local has an interview with Matt Stonie about the music he listens to during contests. He says that being a guitarist would be his post competitive-eating dream job.
TV Casting Plus has posted a request for big eaters in the UK for an upcoming competitive eating program. (via Beard Meats Food).
Sports Media Watch has this year's TV schedule for Wimbledon. ESPN will show tennis from 8am to 4pm Eastern, which will relegate the live broadcast of the Nathan's finals to ESPN2 or another network. (Since July 4 is a Saturday this year, the Nathan's finals could be shown on ABC without conflicting with local news or other weekday programming.)
Adam Richman participated in an Ask Me Anything interview session on reddit.com yesterday. He says his least favorite challenge (which was a mystery beforehand) was the hot wings at Munchies in Sarasota, FL and was also not fond of the 7 pound burrito at Jack and Grill in Denver (which he claims was actually 9.5 pounds yesterday).
Halfling Feast, a competitive eating card game set in a Lord of the Rings type universe will debut at the UK Games Expo. A previous competitive eating card game, Guts of Glory, was set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. (via Gamestable_Dan)
Youtube has a mini-mockumentary about the Championship Eating Network. The fictional channel is used as an example of a minimally-viewed offering which is required to be included in cable packages and is part of Consumer Action's campaign against the practice of bundling. (via IBTimes.com)
A power pellet (cookie) eating contest was held at Level 257 in Schaumburg, IL Saturday in honor of Pac-Man's 35th birthday.
A casting call has been placed by a Japanese program (probably "Battle of the Big Eaters 3") for UK competitive eaters to face off in a qualifier in July or August in London. Four competitors will be chosen to compete in the USA.
This weekend's episode of India's Got Talent will have a grass eating contest between a man and a bull.
2011 women's Nathan's finalist appeared on Wheel of Fortune Thursday and mentioned her competitive eating background.
Run, a movie filmed in the Ivory Coast, will make its New York City debut at the New York African Film Festival on Monday. In the middle section of the film, the protagonist functions as the manager of a female competitive eater called Gladys "La Mangeuse". The character was reportedly based on a real life male professional eater from Mali.
FilmClassicsVirgin has a review of Eat it Up, a comedic short film about competitive eating gangs.
On an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in March, wrestler John Cena talked about how he saved money on food by doing pizza eating challenges while he worked as a bouncer.
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