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Bill "El Wingador" Simmons is mentioned in Bill Simmons' latest grantland.com column in a section about people with the same name as famous sports figures. The "Sports Guy" does not think the connection works since he claims to have never used cocaine, and "El Wingador" went to prison for drug distribution.
KATU has a video about members of the Big Eaters Club faced off in a 7 pound burrito eating contest held at Koi Fusion in Portland yesterday.
ESPN has a blog entry about University of Virginia football players competing in the Munchin for Memory hot dog eating contest on Sunday to benefit Alzheimer's research. Fullback Vincent Croce was the runner up with 11 hot dogs.
CMT.com has a recap of last night's episode of Party Down South which had a hot dog eating contest.
Maine.eater.com has an interview with the owners of Hoss and Mary's about the move of their restaurant from Old Orchard Beach, ME to Key West, FL later this month. They do not say if the new location will have the "Manimal", the eating challenge in the Maine episode of Man vs. Food.
Steve "Pi Guy" Martin and Damien Boykin appeared on Fox 5 Atlanta this morning to promote Sunday's qualifier at the Atlanta Dogwood Festival. Ronnie Hartman and Crazy Legs Conti are also expected to compete.
The Independent has an interview with Adam Richman, who says that he has been a vegan for the past three month to prepare for his participation in the Soccer Aid charity game. The former host of Man vs. Food says he actually gained more weight doing the series that followed that program. In dismissing his status as a competitive eater, he makes the interesting claim that competitive eating is "unionized".
The New York Daily News has an obituary for James "Little Jimmy" Mastrangelo, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 68. He was famous for dressing up as Uncle Sam during the Nathan's finals at Coney Island and also played an Oompa Loompa in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). update The wake will be tomorrow in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. update April 8 The Brooklyn Paper also has an obituary citing the cause of death as prostrate cancer.
Actor Elijah Wood won a moon pie eating contest held at the Chattanooga Film Festival. In 2010, the Lord of the Rings trilogy protagonist oversaw a chicken wing eating contest in New York City. update April 7 WRCB has an article and video
The Travel Channel will televise the debut episode of "Man Finds Food" tomorrow at 9pm EDT. The series was supposed to start in early July 2014, but was put on hiatus for almost nine months due to controversial social media comments by host Adam Richman.
UFC champion Ronda Rousey faced off against sports radio host Mike Golic in a marshmallow eating challenge.
The 2015 edition of TV Tokyo's "Gluttonous Queen" competition will be televised on March 29. Natsuko "Gal" Sone will face Hatsuyo "The Witch" Sugawara and Angela Sato.
Matt Stonie announces he will appear on ESPN2's SportsNation at 3pm EDT today and will face Michelle Beadle and Marcellus Wiley in a bacon eating contest. update A video of the appearance is available
Eric “Badlands” Booker on Fink Beats the Stomach
Eric “Badlands” Booker interview on the Fink Beast the Stomach is now available. Some notes:
- He says he used his payment from Wife Swap for a down payment on a house and that Charles Hardy, Cookie Jarvis and Joe Menchetti were finalists for that program
- He plans to collaborate with Crazy Legs Conti on a “hip hopera” set in the competitive eating world
- He would like to see the release of Stick to Blogging 2 by Brian Seiken, which he claims is 50% finished
Hoss & Mary's, site of the "Manimal Challenge" in the Maine episode of Man vs. Food will close its Old Orchard Beach location on April 26 and set up a new restaurant in Key West, FL.
Kate Ovens reports that her attempt at a burger challenge was recorded. Emma Dalton also tried the challenge.
The LA Times did a post in 2006 about "All You Can Eat", a competitive eating screenplay by Josh Heald, writer of Hot Tub Time Machine 2, (The project appears to have been tabled; it no longer appears on Heald's IMDB page). To research the script, Heald competed in the 2006 Nathan's Las Vegas qualifier where Joey Chestnut became the first American to hit 50 hot dogs. (The post claims that a competitor at that event fainted and needed to be removed by stretcher, which is the first I had heard about that incident.)
The Hard Rock Cafe in Tulsa will hold eating contests on March 19, 26 and April 2 as part of its Brutus Burger Challenge. Adam Richman will host the final contest that will award $5,000.
MyCastingNet is currently accepting applications for a new (currently untitled) eating challenge show.
The competitive eating episode of MTV's True Life documentary series will be rerun on MTV2 tomorrow at noon Eastern tomorrow.
AllKPop.com has a post about Yura of the k-pop group Girl's Day finishing a spicy pasta challenge.
Aaron Ybarra has a blog entry about his competitive eating career which mentions his appearance on the competitive eating episode of Bones and recording a song with Mary Bowers.
"Nacho Extreme", a competitor in several eating contests on the A & E reality series Wahlburgerers, qualified for Wing Bowl 23 today by completing a cheesesteak sandwich eating stunt. He will face Lee Woodall, a former linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers, in a celebrity boxing match in Broomall, PA on January 31 and will also compete in a wing eating contest in Beverly, MA on January 17.
Rhys Hocking edited "Battle of the Big Eaters 2" to produce a version with only the segments featuring the Australian team.
Actress Donna Douglas passed away earlier this week. A 1962 Miami News article describes how she defeated the reigning champion at a pepper eating contest in New Iberia, LA before landing the role of Elly Mae Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies. (She was hired to be a model at that competition).
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