Yesterday’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy (which I missed) had a champion Japanese female competitive eater character . The show also had a hot dog eating contest between the interns won by an Asian woman.

Updated 11:00 pm A longer synopsis of the episode is available from Seattlest

Updated 1/25 9:48 am An even longer summary is available from seattle.metblogs.com

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Philly.com has more information about the Wing Bowl movie under development and also announces that a line of Wing Bowl clothing will hit the marketplace before the February 3 contest.

More about the Wing Bowl movie

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In this discussion panel about high definition television, competitive eating is mentioned as programming for HDTV.

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Two books detailing life on the competitive eating circuit are now available for sale on amazon.com despite the fact that they will not be released until the second quarter of 2006. Ryan Nerz’s Eat This Book : A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit will be released April 4. Jason Fagone’s Insatiable Appetites : Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream will hit the stores on June 6. The length of both books is given, so the manuscripts must be finished.

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(from speedeat.com) Thursday’s episode of CSI, “Dog Eat Dog” focuses on the case of a dead competitive eater. The eater had Prader-Willi Syndrome, a genetic disorder in which the afflicted indivdual experiences hunger regardless of the amount recently eaten. There is no word on whether IFOCE provided any assistance, but it is unlikely they did since one of the characters is a shady competitive eating promoter.

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ESPN.com’s Page 2 has a list of its top five articles for 2004-2005 which includes an article on the 2005 Wing Bowl, “The Worst Event Ever” by Jim Caple.

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(Thanks Ken Wong) CBS news has a video clip of the Seattle Wing contest with brief interviews with Joey Chestnut and Badlands Booker at

http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2004/11/05/world/videoarchive653991.shtml

Scroll down until the contest is found

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The screen capture of the Sports Illustrated on Campus article about collegiate eaters uploaded previously is difficult to read, so I did another screen capture with larger text (and no picture) and uploaded it here.

The article mentions that Joey Chestnut found it difficult to do the Chattanooga Krystal qualifier after having competed the previous day, but does not state that the eater he lost to in that contest had done contests the preceding two days.

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(Thanks Hall Hunt) The new issue of Sports Illustrated on Campus has a (generally positive) article about collegiate competitive eaters with short profiles of Joey Chestnut, Patrick Bertoletti and Hall Hunt. The print version is only available on college campuses, but an online (flash plug-in required) edition can be viewed at:

http://mag1.olivesoftware.com/activemagazine/welcome/SI/OnCampus.htm

The article can be found on page 28. (It takes a while to scroll through the magazine.)

Some interesting facts:

• Patrick Bertoletti is a culinary arts major
• Hall Hunt has ran a 3:34 marathon

2005 could be described as the the year of the rookie undergraduate eater due to the emergence of Chestnut and Bertoletti along with Kate Stelnick’s feat.

Update Oct 1 12:19 am A screen capture of the article has been uploaded.

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QuickTime clips from the “Cheap Seats” episode covering Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest are available at http://www.cheapseats.tv/episodes.html (Click on Kobayashi in the upper right corner) The contest from 2004 is used.

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“Cheap Seats” is a show on ESPN classic which aims to be the sports equivalent of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The program stars two comedians who watch old footage of minor sports and make comments they consider humerous. The third season of “Cheap Seats” opens Monday at 10 pm eastern and will feature Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating contest. It is not stated what year’s contest will be used, but it will be either 2004 or 2005 since those are the only two years that ESPN has broadcast the event. The show is 30 minutes so probably only the actual contest will be rerun with none of the accompanying profiles. If the “Cheap Seats” comedians are having writers block thinking of witty insults about IFOCE members, AICE would probably be happy to contribute some.

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Kieran Darcy has a list of the top 10 gluttons in sports on ESPN.com’s Page 2 in which Kobayashi is ranked #1. William “Refrigerator” Perry is #6, which is probably unmerited based on his quitting the 2003 Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest after 5 minutes having just eaten four hot dogs. Darcy also has a list of the top 10 most non-gluttonous athletes. A claim could be made that Sonya Thomas belongs on that list because she eats just one meal a day, exercises 2 hours a day and weighs less than 105 pounds.

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