“Sweet” Jill Stoler has a blog entry and information on her myspace page about recording segments that will be televised during the AICE vs. Japan contest.

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The online schedule for Spike TV now extends to December 26 and the third installment of the trilogy recorded in Las Vegas which features ham and hard boiled eggs eating contests does not appear on it.

Spike’s programming for Christmas and Christmas Eve consists solely of James Bond movies and reruns of “Star Trek: Voyager” and “CSI”.

update BestOnCable reports that the ham & eggs contest will be televised on December 12, but other schedules do not corroborate this.

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An announcement about Badlands Booker’s fourth album is available after the jump
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Gal Sone’s latest blog entry is about her appearance at a buzzword award ceremony. Mycom reports that representatives of the top 10 buzzwords received awards and Gal Sone represented the term oogui (big eating / gluttony) Pink Tentacle has a list with descriptions of the 60 buzzwords that were candidates for the top 10. “Food Fighter” was one of the buzzwords that failed to make the cut.

In the picture on the left, Gal Sone is between bathing suit wearing comedian Yoshio Kojima whose catchphrase is “Sonna no kankei nee” (“What does that matter?”) and transvestite Ikko, who is famous for the exclamation of surprise “dondake?!”.

Today is Gal Sone’s 22nd birthday. She already celebrated the occasion with a cake bearing her likeness.

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Electric Sheep Magazine has a list of the top 10 gluttonous scenes in movie history.

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Hungry & Focused 4 is now available for purchase on Badlands Booker’s myspace page. Paul Barlow made the artwork above for the CD. A T shirt with the above image can be purchased on Paul Barlow’s zazzle page.

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BeautifulBrian reports that El Toro makes a guest appearance on a track on Badlands Booker’s new album, which can be listened to on on El Toro’s myspace page

El Toro is not the only rapping Hispanic competitive eater. “Nurse” Caterina of the Heart Attack Grill is also trying to develop a hip-hop career. Caterina will appear in the upcoming movie “Midnight is the Darkest Hour”

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Joe Menchetti appears in an ESPN.com article about fans of the University of Connecticut traveling to the Gulf Coast for the men’s and women’s Final Fours in 2004:

Another stroll down River Walk, and I run into “Big Red,” a really loud fan who always starts the crowd cheering “U-C-O-N-N!” He gives me the cell-phone number of a Joe Manchetti, another Huskie-maniac who is on the road somewhere between New Orleans and San Antonio.

“I flew on Friday from Hartford to Baton Rouge, and drove to San Antonio,” said Joe. “Took me about seven hours. We were tired. After the Saturday games, we walked back to the hotel — for about a mile. I took a shower and a power nap for a few hours. Totally forgot about Daylight Savings Time.

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All clips from The Daily Show are now free, including several about competitive eating: 2001 segment about Don Lerman by Stephen Colbert, report on 2005 Nathan’s finals, interview with Ryan Nerz to promote “Eat This Book”

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The full Turkey Bowl program can be viewed on the MLE page at http://www.ifilm.com/show/23406 There is also a video clip of Juliet Lee’s cranberry sauce victory.

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Turkey 10/10/07

Pat Bertoletti 6.91 lbs
Joey Chestnut 6.51 lbs
Tim Janus 4.89 lbs
Tim Brown 3.76 lbs
Rich LeFevre 3.39 lbs
Arturo Rios 3.09 lbs
Kobayashi 2.46 lbs
Allen Goldstein 1.91 lbs

Cranberry Sauce 10/10/07

Juliet Lee 13.23 lbs
Hall Hunt 12.44 lbs
Juris Shibayama 11.11 lbs
Erik Denmark 10.92 lbs
Chris Abatsas 8.01 lbs
Micah Collins 7.99 lbs
El Toro 6.66 lbs
Steakbellie 6.5 lbs

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TimesHerald.com has an interview with Joey Chestnut and his mother Alicia to promote tomorrow’s broadcast of the Turkey Bowl (on Spike TV at 11 am and 7 pm). Joey says he intends to use the leverage he has amassed:

As for his status as the Top Dog on the planet when it comes to quick consumption of considerable quantities, Chestnut realizes that some day he’ll use his status to leverage higher fees from sponsors.

“Who said I didn’t already start that?” he said laughing, adding that a few more years and who knows, perhaps “The Joey Chestnut Story” will hit the big screen.

Mother Chestnut and son have differences of opinion when it comes to the actor playing the starring role.

“Adam Sandler,” Alicia Chestnut said.

“Matt Damon,” son grinned.

In a San Jose Mercury article, Joey says that the first book he loved was the Red Pony by John Steinbeck

update Joey is the choice for sportsman of the year for one writer on sportsillustrated.com

I will not be able to teleblog the “Turkey Bowl”

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The Washington Post has an AP article about the Turkey Bowl and competitive eating in general.

The article is currently one of the top stories on the front page of yahoo.com

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Television.aol.com has a summary of today’s “The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet”

Boyz II Men perform; Relationship 101; “MLE Chowdown: The Turkey Bowl”; identity theft.

The Turkey Bowl segment will probably be the eating contest that was advertised on craigslist.

The show is syndicated so it will appear at various times. Check your local listings.

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(from the Hangman) Jacksonville.com has a brief article about Hall Hunt’s appearance in the “Turkey Bowl” where he will compete in the cranberry sauce undercard.

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The following request has been made on craigslist:

Are you a big eater? Can you do it fast? Have you always wanted to be on National TV in an eating contest??

If you think you can compete, you have the opportunity to eat a Thansgiving Dinner as fast as you can on a Morning TV Show this Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. You will be competing against a former eating champion!!

Please contact me, Matt, ASAP at morningshowmatt@hotmail.com, reply to this post, or call (212) 301-5312.

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(From Pat Bertoletti) The commercials for Thursday’s “Turkey Bowl” contest have been uploaded to ifilm.com. Commercial #1, Commercial #2

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The “Without a Trace” episode about a missing champion chili eater will be rerun on CBS tonight at 8pm.

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A press release announces that the third MLE special on Spike TV, the “Turkey Bowl” will be televised twice on Thanksgiving Day, November 22 at 11am and 7pm.

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A clip from ESPN’s Sportcenter about the results of Krystal Square Off IV can be viewed at http://broadband.espn.go.com/ivp/splash2?id=3084545

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(from Erik Denmark) The MLE page on Spike TV announces that the second segment of the MLE Chowdown, titled “Battle of the Bird”, will be televised on Thanksgiving Day. A time is not listed.

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A new book, “Short History of the American Stomach” will come out early next year. A description of its contents follows:

The extremes of American eating—our separate-but-equal urges to stuff and to starve ourselves—are easy to blame on the excesses of modern living. But Frederick Kaufman followed the winding road of the American intestine back to that cold morning when the first famished Pilgrim clambered off the Mayflower, and he discovered the alarming truth: We’ve been this way all along. With outraged wit and an incredible range of sources that includes everything from Cotton Mather’s diary to interviews with Amish black-market raw-milk dealers, Kaufman offers a highly selective, take-no-prisoners tour of American history by way of the American stomach. Travel with him as he tracks down our earliest foodies; discovers the secret history of Puritan purges; introduces diet gurus of the nineteenth century, such as William Alcott, who believed that nothing ought to be mashed before it is eaten; traces extreme feeders from Paul Bunyan to eating-contest champ Dale Boone (descended from Daniel, of course); and investigates our blithe efforts to re-create plants and animals that we’ve eaten to the point of extinction.

The author, Fredrick Kaufman, has a blog at AmericanStomach.com A profile of Dale Boone from a 2003 issue of Harper’s Magazine can be downloaded from that website. A transcript of a NPR interview in which Kaufman compared cooking shows to pornography is available. The release date is February 4, 2008, the same weekend as Wing Bowl 16.

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NYTimes.com reports that Don Imus will take over the morning show on WABC currently hosted by Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby. The radio station says it hopes to find an alternate place in its schedule for Curtis Sliwa, a four time Carnegie Deli pickle eating champion in the 1990s.

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Emailed by Badlands Booker:

Pre-order the latest badlands booker album “Hungry & Focused 4 – Fork, Knife, and Mic” and get the new ’07 Edition Badlands Booker T Shirt free while supplies last. Offer ends on the album’s official release date: 11/21/07. Stay Hungry and focused everybody

The album can be purchased at myspace.com/badlandsbooker

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According to this 2003 article link fixed Jan 12, 2015 in the Washington Times, Stacey Dales might be the ESPN sideline reporter with the best background for next year’s Nathan’s finals broadcast:

Dales-Schuman is at home behind both a microphone – she cut her promos flawlessly – and a dinner plate. Tough, double-session practices have burned off the calories and she works out on her own, but she still is one of those high-metabolism types who can live on the buffet line and stay maddeningly thin. Some mayonnaise with that? Absolutely. She proceeded to liberally apply the stuff, with apparent glee, from a squeeze bottle. “I’m a hog,” she said while chomping on a giant turkey hoagie.

“She eats like a madwoman,” said Indiana Fever coach Nell Fortner, who worked with Dales-Schuman in the studio during ESPN’s coverage of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament and is one of many who marvels at her appetite. “It’s hilarious. There was food all over the desk. Then with 20 seconds to go before we went on, it’s, like, clear the desk. I tell her she eats like a cow. She grazes all day long.”

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