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Rick "The Manager" Russo has produced an anthem and music video for Wing Bowl 21. (via Craig Reed)
The Travel Channel will record a fruitcake eating contest at Santa's Candy Castle in Santa Claus, Indiana on December 8 for a new special titled "Christmas Showdown". Contest slots are still avaialble.
zskyrme has a video of a death in a hot dog eating contest in the The Sims 3 Seasons. Competitive eating fatalities appear to occur at a high frequency in the video game.
Stacy "Eatorama" McCarthy has produced a song called "Hungry Man" about his 2013 Wing Bowl quest.
Don "Moses" Lerman was one of the subjects Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, editors of Jewish Jocks, discussed on National Public Radio's Morning Edition earlier today. update Nov 24 NPR.org has a full transcript including host Linda Wertheimer's praise of the Lerman section.
Tim Ferris says he ate a Ben & Jerry's Vermonster challenge in 20 minutes for a section of his new book The 4-Hour Chef and that his body fat decreased following the challenge.
Pukka World Entertainment announces that its King and Queen Eating Competition reality TV show will start. In October 2011, entrants were instructed to wire 1,000 Naira to the company's bank account.
The Travel Channel's Food Paradise series is available on youtube. In the Big Beef Paradise episode, diners attempt to eat a 10 pound prime rib at Ward's House of Prime in Milwaukee (starts a 5:15 mark).
The Mirror has an interview with Adam Richman where he has the following for people disappointed in his retirement from competitive eating: "I’m giving my haters the finger. I’m not ­giving them the ­satisfaction of having health ­problems."
Bill Geist will attempt to eat the 72 ounce steak challenge at The Big Texan in Amarillo, TX on tomorrow's episode of CBS Sunday Morning. update Nov 19 A video of the segment is available.
Juan "More Bite" Rodriguez announces that he will attempt the 8 pound burger at The Pub at Monte Carlo in Las Vegas on November 30 for an upcoming episode of Travel Channel's Trip Flip.
There will be an eating contest on tonight's episode of The Challenge: Battle of the (Real World) Seasons at 10pm eastern on MTV. (via Marie Roda).
The SimsVIP twitter has a screen capture of a hot dog eating contest from The Sims video game.
The BBC has an interview with Adam Richman, who says he does not have plans for a UK version of Man vs. Food or any other future eating challenge show.
Washington Jewish Week's article about the new book Jewish Jocks mentions the section about Don "Moses" Lerman.
Steve Miller has a review of the 2009 low budget competitive eating comedy Nacho Mountain. He thought the eating contest scenes were funny, but the remainder of the movie could have used a stronger script.
A clip from The Sopranos of a cannoli eating contest has been uploaded to youtube. Crazy Legs Conti is one of the competitors.
Molly Schuyler appeared on Omaha Morning Blend to promote Saturday's contest vs. Randy Santel at Sinful Burger to benefit Toys for Tots. (via Randy Santel)
In his ESPN.com podcast series, Bill Simmons occasionally mentioned his friend Joe House's stomach capacity. A new video series for Grantland.com will document this ability. The debut episode of "House Eats" was recorded at Emma Jean's Holland Burger Cafe in Victorville, CA. In a new podcast Joe House discusses the project at the 47 minute mark.
Jon "Super" Squibb will compete against a pig in a corn eating contest for an upcoming episode of Animal Science.
WGN will record attempts at the Beast burger challenge at Roadhouse 66 in Chicago Friday for an episode of "Chicago's best on Enormous Eats".
Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame was released today. The section about Don "Moses" Lerman, part of which can be read on Google Books, credits him as the innovator of competitive eating and the popularizer of techniques like water training. The book's twitter has links to excerpts and other information.
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