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ESPNMediaZone3.com has information about ESPN's coverage of the Nathan's finals on July 4. Pat Bertoletti will wear a heart monitor during the contest.
AOL Weird News has an article about the Nathan's women's division with quotes from Larell Marie Mele confirming that the female contest will not be televised on ESPN; live coverage will be available online on ESPN3.
The women's contest at the Nathan's finals may not appear on ESPN. IFOCE.com lists the start time of the female division at 11:30 am eastern and the ESPN broadcast will start at 12 noon eastern. (Grace Lee has planned a watch party, hopefully the women's contest will appear on some channel)
Mickey Duzyj has produced "A Patriot's Guide to the Hot Dog Eating Contest" with graphics inspired by the 1980s video game Mike Tyson's Punch Out.
The 2011 Nathan's finals will be televised live in the United Kingdom on ESPN America and Paul Page will return as announcer despite calling the defending champion "Joey Chitwood" on last year's broadcast.
Joel "The Cannon" Podelsky's appearance last night on America's Got Talent can be viewed online. Joel ate a pumpkin pie in 70 seconds.
Dave Wagner was interviewed for an upcoming documentary on competitive eating about recording a controversial video at last year's Nathan's qualifier in Escondido, CA. He thinks the documentary, which is hoping for a late August release, will be critical of the IFOCE.
Hungry Todd Rungy has posted a video recorded at the 2010 Fantastic Fest in Austin of his attempt to confront actor Ryan Reynolds about a 2007 Huffington Post blog entry attacking competitive eating. Rungy has also set up a facebook group calling for a boycott of Reynolds' new movie The Green Lantern. (In the blog entry Reynolds calls Don Lerman "my main man")
Videos of the P'zone eating contest between Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas held at Spike TV's Guy Choice Awards and post-contest interviews can be viewed online.
Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas will face off in the Pizza Hut Chowlenge on the Guys Choice Awards at 9 pm eastern on Spike TV. Some videos from the contest can be viewed on SpikeTV.com. (via Renee Herlocker) A picture from the contest is also available (via comment).
The Morning Call has an article on Stacy "Eatorama" McCarthy, who is planning a competitive eating reality TV show.

Man vs. Food Nashville episode links

Travel Channel Episode Guide | Restaurants & Activities Map

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List of Nashville-area eating challenges and contests in the eatfeats database

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Big eater wanted for Providence, RI TV show

A national cable network has emailed the following casting notice:

“BIG EATER WANTED!!

Do you have what it takes to chow down on National Television!? If you live near Providence RI and you’ve got BIG personality and a BIGGER appetite WE WANT YOU!
A well known show that pits every day Joe’s against big eating challenges needs folks who are over 18, and live near Providence, contact us via E-mail dlaven@gmail.com
Send us a video telling us who you are, what you do, your eating history, and why you want to take on our eating challenges! Please include in the email your contact information, and a photo.”

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The Man vs. Food facebook has information about the Man vs. Food Nation casting call contest. Entrants are to submit a video about themselves and the food challenge they want to attempt. The deadline for video submission in July 16. (contest rules)

Man vs. Food Nation New Haven episode links

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CT Now article about episode

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List of New Haven area eating challenges and contests in the eatfeats database
Eatfeats blog category for the Doodle Burger record, the most famous New Haven eating challenge (restaurant closed in 2008)

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Kobayashi outtake in SuperFreakonomics

The paperback version of SuperFreakonomics was released today. In 2008, co-author Stephen J. Duber wrote about attending the Nathan’s finals and dining with Kobayashi. The notes section of SuperFreakonomics reports that Dubner’s research was to be part of a chapter about how super talented individuals acquire their talent that was dropped from the published version when other books on that topic appeared. A screen capture of the notes appears after the jump:
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Man vs. Food: Nation to open with New Haven, CT on June 1

The site of the first episode of Man vs. Food: Nation to be televised (at 9 pm eastern on June 1) will be New Haven, CT. The Tampa episode will follow immediately after. On Wednesday May 25, an hour long show consisting of clips of the new season and eating challenge videos will air. Randy Santel received notice that his videos will not be used in the program.

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Will Millender produced a rap video about the Go! Go! Curry! eating finals on May 28 which includes a "diss" of Dave "US Male" Goldstein.
Renee Herlocker announces that she will be the field reporter for ESPN's broadcast of the Nathan's finals on July 4. update May 19 SBNation has more on Herlocker, who was a Denver Broncos cheerleader from 2000 to 2006.
TCBMag reports that Page Productions, producer of the Food Network shows Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and Outrageous Food is suing the Food Network for breach of contract.

Probable Man vs. Food Milwaukee casting call

Reality wanted has a casting call for a big eater to appear in upcoming episode of an unnamed reality show to be filmed in Milwaukee. The show is most likely Man vs. Food: Nation. Reality Wanted also has a request for someone to attempt an eating challenge for a Louisville episode recorded earlier this month and Fox41 reports that Man vs. Food filmed in Kentucky on May 9. (A possible candidate would be Molly Cary, the only competitive eater Pat Bertoletti has faced off against and never defeated. She was the runner-up in a 2004 Milwaukee corned beef eating contest Bertoletti finished third in and has not done another IFOCE contest.)

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Adam Richman's appearance on ESPN2's First Take on Thursday to promote Man vs. Food: Nation can be viewed online.
The Travel Channel has a list of cities that will be featured in upcoming episodes of Man vs. Food: Nation with longer descriptions of the Tampa, Albuquerque, Harlem, Nashville and New Haven, CT episodes.
Jeff Dino has produced a picture comparing the challenge meals he and his friends received (which appears to be the Ironman omelet from the Broken Yolk Cafe) with the meal eaten by Adam Richman on an episode of Man vs. Food
Some competitive eating reality programs: Reality Wanted has a casting call for a big eater to appear on a cable program to be recorded in Milwaukee, the facebook page for "If You Can Out Eat Me" by Stacey R McCarthy ("Eataroma") has a request for competitors for Stacey and Ron Sambrano is looking for Maui residents to compete in an eating contest on a local television program.
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