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Bill "El Wingador" Simmon's (non-IFOCE) co-stars in the Kentucky Fried Chicken commerical announced.
ESPN SportCenter cookie contest
There was a cookie eating contest on yesterday morning’s SportCenter on ESPN in honor of the Man vs. Food turkey leg challenge at Indianapolis Motor Speedway making the Top 10 plays of the week. A video of the segment can be downloaded below:
The Man vs. Food facebook page has a list of radio stations that will hold on air eating challenges in the first week of August. This weekend, Man vs. Food has a both at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for conducting hot turkey leg eating challenges.
The Man v Food twitter announces that Adam Richman will appear on Late Night with Conan O'Brien a week from today.
BND.com has some pictures from the Man vs. Food taping at last night's Gateway Grizzlies game.
Man vs. Food season 2 cities & air dates
The Man vs. Food home page has a list of season 2 episodes containing featured cities and projected air dates. The episodes for Boise, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Detroit, Brooklyn, Anchorage, Little Rock, Tuscon and New Jersey have yet to be recorded. At the conclusion of season 2 recording, Milwaukee, Buffalo, San Diego, Dallas, Houston, Nashville, Kansas City, Phoenix and Miami will not have been visited.
Adam Richman to attempt Krispy Kreme burger tomorrow
BND reports that Adam Richman of Man vs. Food will attempt “Baseball’s Best Burger” at tomorrow’s Gateway Grizzlies game in Sauget, IL (East St. Louis area). The sandwich uses a split Krispy Kreme doughnut as a bun. This will be the third time Man vs. Food has recorded at a minor league stadium (Charleston, SC, W. Michigan) and St. Louis will become the third metropolitan area to be visited twice (SF Bay area, Raleigh-Durham)
SJ-R has a report (no spoiler) about Adam Richman’s attempt at a bowl of Firebrand Chili in Springfield, IL yesterday.
update The article reports that Jim Hamrick, who has been ranked in the IFOCE top 50, set the Firebrand Chili record of 5 bowls last week.
A request for a female competitive eater to star in a new reality TV show has been posted to craigslist by OCBfilms. (There does not seem to be much about OCB films' previous projects on the internet.)
Iggy had a negative experience at the Man vs. Food taping in Springfield, Illinois yesterday.
Iggyz.com has some details about the sites in Springfield, Illinois Man vs. Food will visit this weekend.
MLive has an article and video about Adam Richman's attempt to eat the Fifth Third Burger at last night's West Michigan Whitecaps game. (contains spoiler)
Philly.com has a blog entry listing the restaurants that will be featured on an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food The challenge was a 5 pound cheesesteak at Tony Luke's.
Joey Chestnut will be a guest on tonight's episode of Chronicle Live on Comcast Sportsnet Bay Area at 9 pm and take phone calls from the audience.
MLive has the details about Adam Richman's appearance at a West Michigan Whitecaps game tomorrow to attempt the Fifth Third Burger for an upcoming episode of Man vs. Food.
Documentarian Errol Morris, winner of the 2004 Academy Award for The Fog of War, interviewed Bill "El Wingador" Simmons and four other wing eating champions. Morris says he would like to appear with Simmons on The Charlie Rose Show on PBS, but no invitation has been exteneded.
The home page for Man vs. Food reports that the first episode of the second season will debut on August 5 and feature restaurants from San Antonio.
The Philadelphia restaurants Man vs. Food recorded at yesterday were Tommy Dinic's Roast Pork and Beef and Miller's Twist in Reading Terminal Market. Today's sites were cheesesteak restaurants on South Street.
SportsMediaWatch reports that the 2009 Nathan's finals broadcast received a 0.9 rating corresponding to 1.3 million viewers. The 2007 contest reportedly drew a 1.3 rating and 1.632 million viewers. (I have not been able to find last year's rating)
411Mania.com reports that the second season of Man vs. Food will debut on August 5. Tony Luke, Jr. confirms that the program recorded at his restaurant in Philadelphia on July 9.
Craigslist has a posting requesting competitive eaters to appear in a 5 minute comedic short filming this weekend in Manhattan.
http://twitter.com/morningsideband/status/2549857996: Adam Richman of Man vs. Food is at Tony Luke's in Philadelphia today and Bill "El Wingador" Simmons will be a guest.
The program where "Furious" Pete Czerwinski took on German restaurants' eating challenges was televised in Europe today and a clip of that program is available on youtube. Bodybuilding.com thread 1 | thread 2
Sportnation debuted on ESPN2 today, and one of the topics they discussed was whether there should be more televised competitive eating. You can vote on a poll on the program's web page (from anon comment) and also follow the twitter responses.
Badlands Booker reports that his fifth CD, Extended Play is available on his myspace page.
This evening's ESPN Sportcenter had a long story on competitive eating which can be viewed online. The segment originally ran on E:60 in October and a reporter roundtable about the clip is also available.
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