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TeamKobayashi announces that Takeru Kobayashi will appear on Friday night's episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC.
Patch.com Gamespot.com has an article about Bob Shoudt's likeness being used in the recently released Major League Eating app. Joey Chestnut does not appear in a LaughingSquid blog entry about the app, so he might have been removed from the 2008 Wii game the app is based on. GameSpot has pictures of all the eaters appearing in the Wii game.
Director Mike Nichols ("The Graduate") used his acceptance speech at the Tony awards to reminisce about winning a pie eating contest that took place at the same site as the awards ceremony. (Nichols is the father-in-law of ESPN's Rachel Nichols.)
AVClub.com has a recap of tonight's episode of Royal Pains in which one of the patients was a professional female competitive eater from Grand Rapids, MI who had a European accent despite her birthplace. update June 7 The episode can be viewed online. The lobster roll contest in which Crazy Legs Conti competes at 'T-Bone Tommy" starts around minute 29.
MLE game iPhone / iPad app available
update June 7 Bob Shoudt is another new character. Joey Chestnut implies that he was omitted.
The MLE facebook announces an app for iPhone / iPad is available on itunes. The app appears to be a port of the Wii game developed by Mastiff released in 2008. The listed competitors in the app are Tim Janus, Sonya Thomas, Crazy Legs Conti and Tim Brown, who was not in the Wii game.
Competitors in the Wii game were Pat Bertoletti, Joey Chestnut, Crazy Legs Conti, Erik Denmark, Tim Janus, El Toro Jimenez, Takeru Kobayashi, Juliet Lee, Rich LeFevre and Sonya Thomas. (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3) It would not be surprising if Kobayashi, Jimenez and LeFevre were removed from the app. (Interestingly, Joey Chestnut does not appear in the list of competitors or the screen captures.)
A burping contest awarding $500 will be held at Hudson Station in New York City on Friday to promote the game. (via Naader Reda)
update Pete Davekos is another one of the new eaters
Competitive eating injuries will be part of the plot in the debut episode for season 4 of Royal Pains on the USA Network tomorrow at 9/8C.
Nathan's Famous of Canada has a link to Aaron and Heather Osthoff's appearance on Breakfast Television Calgary today. The Calgary Herald has a preview focusing on Lee Vilinsky.
A press release announces that Takeru Kobayashi will partner with Large Animal Games to promote the Nomsters mobile video game. When 100 million virtual fruit items have been collected in the game, Takeru Kobayashi will attempt an eating challenge in New York City. update The Kickstarter page for the project needs to raise over $18,000 by June 6.
Epic Meal Time will appear on ABC's Nightline tonight.
ESPN Front Row has a blog entry and video about the eating contest held Friday at ESPN headquarters in which Crazy Legs Conti defeated Maria "Edible" 13.5 hot dogs to 12 in the five minute competition. Conti will attempt to qualify in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Charlotte.
Social Cam has a video of a hot dog eating contest between Crazy Legs Conti and Maria "Edible" on the ESPN campus today.
A press release announces that the Nathan's finals will be televised on ESPN through 2017. The 2012 broadcast will begin at 3pm eastern and last one hour and coverage of the women's division will be included. Paul "Joey Chitwood" Page will continue as announcer.
Dax "The Ginger" Swanson will be competing in a wing eating contest on (San Francisco) Chronicle Live on Comcast Sports Net Bay Area tomorrow.
The facebook page for Criss Angel announces that he will compete against Flavor Flav of Public Enemy in a chicken eating contest during the magician's livecast on June 23.
Philly.com reports that the Travel Channel program Food Paradise will record attempts at the sandwich challenge at Jake's Sandwich Board in Philadelphia on Friday (via Danny Ozark)
London based Umbrella Magazine has an article in its new edition titled "Why Man vs. Food Represents the Very Best America"
A Wall Street Journal article reviewing biographies of Colonel Harlan Sanders, NY Times critic Craig Clairborne and frozen food pioneer Clarence Birdseye has a paragraph about competitive eating near its end.
An unnamed Travel Channel program will record a "calf fry" (rocky mountain oyster) eating contest at Tumbleweed in Stillwater, OK on Thursday.
LosAngeles.Craigslist.org has a casting call for 8th, 9th and 10th graders who want to appear on a new program described as "Wild & Crazy Kids meets Man vs. Food". The program will be hosted by an unnamed Disney Channel star.
Rob Rains has an article about Randy Santel's appearance on Truck Stop America on the Travel Channel on Thursday. Tomorrow, he will attempt to break the Crown Candy Kitchen record on Fox 2 News and then attempt an eating challenge at O'Learys in St. Louis. (episode photos | video) update April 18 Randy announces that he did the challenge in 2:29, breaking Ben Monson's (as "Kevin Ross") record.
The twitter for Simon's Deli announces that it will be the site of a cannoli eating contest on tonight's episode of Mama's Boys of The Bronx on TLC at 10 pm eastern. One of the characters on the program is "Pretty Boy" Pete D(iFiglia), which might be a trademark violation.
WWL-TV has a video of the last 20 seconds of this morning's crawfish eating contest between Crazy Legs Conti and "Fireman" Mike. (picture)
A giant gummy bear eating contest will be held at tonight's screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at the Alamo Drafthouse in San Antonio.
A blog entry on salon.com claims that ESPN televised Nathan's hot dog eating contest in the mid-seventies. (ESPN was founded in 1979.) The first Nathan's telecast took place in 2004.
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